Vegas Showdown FAQ
62 questions players ask · Updated Nov 13, 2026 · Full rulebook
Setup and First Turn
Prices and Income
- Is income the lower of Revenue and Population each turn?
- If a premier tile is at $3 and the Sale event drops the price, is the tile discarded?
- When prices drop, do you follow the red track or the white in-between spaces?
- Do minimum-bid changes from an event card touch empty premier spaces, and does a newly flipped room start at its normal minimum?
- Can an event card raise a premier room's minimum bid above its starting value, and what happens at 52?
- If Rise in Demand would push a room's price above 52, does the room leave the board?
- Is the population or revenue track ever lower than its starting value of 8 or 5?
- Is each player's cash hidden or public?
Event Cards
- Do you draw one event card for each empty premier space, or only one event card per turn?
- With several empty premier spaces, are the event cards resolved one at a time, and do their effects stack?
- Does a No Bid event card stop bidding on premier tiles that are flipped later in the same turn?
- Do Sale and Rise in Demand affect premier tiles that are drawn later in the same turn?
- Do event cards that need a condition, such as connecting both entrances, stay in play until someone meets it?
- When an event card is drawn, is its premier tile placed before or after the card's effect resolves?
- Do two Visionary event cards drawn in the same turn stack?
- Do two Good Relations event cards drawn in the same turn stack?
- If two Taxes event cards come up in one turn, is income quartered?
- What happens when Taxes and Convention are both in effect in the same turn?
- Does a slot bought through Slot Surplus change your income right away, and does a connected slot count for a later event?
- Can Slot Surplus let you place a tile you set aside in an earlier turn instead of the slot you just bought?
- After buying a slot from Slot Surplus, can you leave it off your sheet to place later?
- Does the Restaurant Builders on Strike event also block Buffets?
- How much fame does the Visionary event give when players keep outbidding each other?
- Does the Good Relations outbid requirement apply to basic rooms as well as premier rooms?
- When several event cards in one turn affect the same thing, do their effects combine?
- If a card says every player may buy a Slots for $7 but none remain, does it do anything?
- Do event effects last only for the turn they are drawn?
Bidding
- When do winning bidders pay, and when does bidding end?
- If you are outbid, must you raise again, or can you bid on a different tile, renovate, or publicize?
- Do Renovate and Publicity count as bids in the auction order?
- Once you choose Renovate or Publicity, can you change your action or bid later in the turn?
- If you bid on a tile and nobody outbids you, must you buy it?
- Can you bid above the highest value on a bid track, such as 15 on Slots?
- Can you bid on a premier room whose starting minimum is 52 on the turn it comes out?
- With five players and only one Slots tile left, can a second bidding track be used?
Placing Tiles
- Can you buy tiles and never place them, with no penalty?
- After buying a tile at auction, can you place a different tile you already own instead?
- Can you place a tile on the turn you buy it, and how many tiles can you place in one turn?
- Can a blue or yellow tile be placed in the other colour's zone, or at the other entrance?
- Must every tile trace a path to its matching entrance?
- Can you leave a placed room floating, not yet connected to an entrance?
- When you place your first tile, must you build from one entrance, or can you build from both?
- Can the first tile at an entrance be green rather than yellow or blue?
- Must a Night Club connect directly to a Lounge or Fancy Lounge, or is a path enough?
- Do you need a premier tile's prerequisites on your board to buy it, or only to place it?
Renovate and Publicity
- If renovation removes a Slots tile, must its dependent Fancy Slots tile come off too?
- When you renovate and remove or add tiles, do you adjust Fame, Revenue and Population for them, and do a tile's bonuses count again later?
- Can you renovate a tile off your sheet and then place that same tile back during the same renovation?
- If you renovate away the Lounge that a Night Club sits beside, must the Night Club stay connected?
- Does Publicity let you place a tile from off your board?
Final Scoring
- Does a wrong-coloured tile in a section cancel its completion bonus?
- In the Renegade edition, are a filled Hotel section and a Hotel-Casino connection worth 3 or 5 Fame?
- In the Renegade edition, do two half-size diamonds on different tiles add up to one full diamond?
- How are diamond fame points scored at the end of the game?
Game End
- When one player fills their hotel-casino sheet, do the other players still finish the turn, place their tiles, and score?
- Does a premier stack running out end the game at once, or only when an event needs a tile from it?
- If all three premier stacks are empty and Pull Strings is drawn, do you draw another event card?
- Does running out of small tiles end the game?