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Vegas Strip Game Review

Eyes were darting around the table. Something seemed fishy.

It was my second play of Vegas Strip (2025, Allplay), and in our five-player game, it was getting late in the second round. Players represent gamblers working alone or in teams to make the most money by gambling at a mix of six different casinos. Some of those casinos were rigged and others were secure, but each player has incomplete information: everyone knows one of the rigged casinos and one of the secure ones, but it’s a 50/50 guess regarding the other casinos in play.

Gideon was avoiding eye contact when I tried looking his way to see if he would give up a “tell” regarding what he knew. My partner, Wil, and I couldn’t talk during the round about what we knew and didn’t know, but there were a lot of side-eye glares shared during the round!

Vegas Strip has a lot of these moments, especially at higher player counts. I know this because I also tried Vegas Strip at three players…and I’ll cut to the chase by saying that Vegas Strip doesn’t shine as a game where three players are each playing solo.

It led one person to declare that Vegas Strip is a “six-player game, with player variants at five, four, and three players.” Now that I’ve…

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