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Venture (1968)

Average Rating: 6.46/10
Board Game Rank: 1665
Strategy Game Rank: 646
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Artist
Publisher
Year Published
1968
# of Players
2 − 6
User Suggested # of Players
Best with 3, 4 players
Recommended with 2, 3, 4, 5 players
(4 voters) [poll]
Playing Time
45 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages
13 and up
User Suggested Ages
14 and up
(1 voter) [poll]
Language Dependence
Some necessary text - easily memorized or small crib sheet
(1 voter) [poll]
Honors
Subdomain
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Category
Mechanic
Expansion
Expands
Family
Primary Name
Venture
Alternate Names
Die Bosse
Die Investoren
Die Investoren
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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Die Investoren
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FX Schmid Bayernfonds edition
Publisher: FX Schmid
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Year: 1995
Size: 8.00 x 5.50 x 1.50 inches
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Die Bosse
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German FX Schmid edition
Publisher: FX Schmid
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Year: 1991
Product Code: 70300.7
Size: 7.68 x 5.51 x 1.65 inches
German
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Venture
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Avalon Hill Bookshelf Gamette
Publisher: Avalon Hill
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Year: 1983
Size: 6.00 x 8.75 x 1.25 inches
0.56 pounds
English
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Venture
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3M Gamette edition
Publisher: 3M
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Year: 1971
Size: 11.50 x 8.40 x 1.05 inches
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Venture
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3M "Butter Box" edition
Publisher: 3M
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Year: 1969
Size: 6.38 x 3.00 x 3.75 inches
0.50 pounds
English
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6 Homemade Venture Card Set
Corporation deck part 3 of 3.
2010-03-13
12 Custom 'artwork' cards
My take on Venture cards - with a kinda sorta cyberpunkey feel.
2008-09-09
13 Venture_Rules.pdf
PDF of original rules
2006-08-03
9 Venture player aid overview.pdf
Rules Overview / Player Aid, two pages (pdf), V.1
2006-05-12
7 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
5 Venture Components.txt
Avalon Hill Venture Inventory List
2005-06-09
8 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
4 OFFICIAL RULES for VENTURE 2.doc
Official Rules for VENTURE
2001-05-02
Statistics
Board Game Rank: 1665
Strategy Game Rank: 646
Num Ratings: 355
Average Rating: 6.46
Standard Deviation: 1.29
Num Views: 29836
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Avg. Game Weight: 2.2
Fans: 6
Personal Comments: 209
Users Owning: 786
Users Wanting: 33
Users Trading: 70 [find trade matches]
Has Parts For Trade: 0
Want Parts In Trade: 4
Price History: View
Total Plays: 335
Plays This Month: 2
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