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Year Published
1968
# of Players:
2 − 6
User Suggested # of Players
Best with 3, 4 players
Recommended with 2, 3, 4, 5 players
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Playing Time
45 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages
13 and up
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Category
Mechanic
Primary Name
Venture
Alternate Names
Die Bosse
Wirtschaftswunder
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Card game in which players purchase companies using sets that have various monetary denominations (the resource cards). Turning in a set with matching symbols is worth more than the face value of the cards, so set collecting becomes a key strategy. Purchased companies (the corporation cards) are placed in front of the player according to a matching letter system. The top company of each stack is vulnerable to proxy take-overs by other players, so they usually attempt to order their holdings such that the most valuable ones are covered by less valuable companies. Scoring occurs whenever a player draws a profit card from the deck. The game ends when the corporation deck is exhausted.

Originally published by 3M (3M Gamette Series), re-published by Avalon Hill in its "gamette line" (gamette no. 205) when they took over 3M's line. Schmidt published the German edition DIE BOSSE in 1991.

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3 Custom 'artwork' cards
My take on Venture cards - with a kinda sorta cyberpunkey feel.
2008-09-09
1 Venture_Rules.pdf
PDF of original rules
2006-08-03
2 Venture player aid overview.pdf
Rules Overview / Player Aid, two pages (pdf), V.1
2006-05-12
1 venture_rules_v2.pdf
Official Rules, v2, same document revised/corrected, with endgame scoring here no different than Profit Card Scoring, as stated in my AH copy of the rules. (Copyrighted file approved based on being a revision of an existing file.)
2006-05-04
1 Venture Components.txt
Avalon Hill Venture Inventory List
2005-06-09
1 venture-manifest.txt
A manifest of all the cards in Venture
2005-05-14
0 bosse_rg.pdf
Traduction française par François Haffner
2001-10-16
1 OFFICIAL RULES for VENTURE 2.doc
Official Rules for VENTURE
2001-05-02
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