Venture Angels

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• Don't judge this this is what we do before we go to conventions
• when we get back we're going to be doing a recap video where we'll talk about our experience there
• type in what game you want to play

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• bidding — Players bid for control of projects. Bids are face down initially, and there's a variety of increments including zero. Each project has a funding goal that must be met.
• bluffing — There's a little bit of a guessing game here, a little bit of mind games of trying to determine if a project is going to fund or not.
• Hidden Information — All of your bids are face down at the start of the game. So, you don't know who's bidding what.
• Set Collection — At the end of the game, you're going to score points for each project of a different color that you have. So, getting a bunch of the same color is also not good.

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• So, I think for a lot of people, this might be number one. But for me, it's number six because I had to start somewhere and I decided to start with corgi pileup.
• But if you enjoy a good laugh, uh Foolish Fool is full of them.
• So, this scratches a lot of those like economic itches.
• So, this is definitely a puzzly word game and it actually has a more advanced mode where you can actually set one of these three dice as priority meaning your word has to include that letter and cannot include the red letter.
• Now, there are a few things that I like more in life than Japanese trick-taking games. I love them, which is why No Loose Ends is getting a little bit higher on my list.
• Now, it is 100% a bidding game, and it's just a thought-provoking game filled with decisions already, but the artwork for it is so cute.
• Out of all the games that are coming out from Game, this is the one that I think I'll probably be playing the most, which is why this won the number one spot for me.

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• Bonus token — In the third round, the player with the least fame receives a bonus token; ties result in no bonus.
• End-of-game tie-breaker — If tied, the player with the highest valued project wins.
• End-of-round actions — After all tiles are funded or discarded, players retrieve investment tokens and begin the next round by revealing tiles again.
• Fame scoring — Fame is calculated by summing the most valuable tile in each category, with extra tiles in a category granting +1 point.
• Flop mechanism — Tiles whose total investment is below their funding goal flop and are returned to the box.
• Funding goals and tile reveal — Project tiles are revealed one by one until their total investment meets or exceeds the tile's funding goal.
• Investment — The lead investor is the player who contributed the most funds to a project and collects the tile; ties are resolved by proximity and earlier investment.
• Lead investor and tile collection — The lead investor is the player who contributed the most funds to a project and collects the tile; ties are resolved by proximity and earlier investment.
• Overhyped project elimination — The project with the most funding is discarded as overhyped; ties mean neither is discarded.
• round structure — Three rounds total, each with three phases: round setup, investing, and funding.
• Secret bidding with investment tokens — Players place investment tokens face down on projects; tokens beneath a tile form a column and are revealed during funding to determine total values.
• Turn order and face-up tokens — In subsequent rounds, players with more fame go first; for each won tile, players must reveal an investment token face up, with face-up tokens placed first.
• Variable Phase Order — Three rounds total, each with three phases: round setup, investing, and funding.

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• Venture Angels is a three to five player game designed by Brunafi Duty with the art by Ian Oul.
• In Venture Angels, your goal is to gain the most fame by funding appealing but risky research ventures.
• That's Venture Angels.

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