POWER OF ATTORNEY

        KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned hereby makes,
constitutes and appoints each of Mary E. Higgins and any individual with the
title General Counsel of the Company (as defined below), signing singly, as the
undersigned's true and lawful attorney-in-fact, with full power and authority as
hereinafter described on behalf of and in the name, place and stead of the
undersigned to:

        (1)    prepare, execute, acknowledge, deliver and file Forms 3, 4 and 5
(including any amendments thereto) with respect to the securities of VICI
Properties Inc., a Maryland corporation (the "Company"), with the U.S.
Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") and any national
securities exchanges or similar authority, as considered necessary or advisable
under Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules and
regulations promulgated thereunder, as amended from time to time (the "Exchange
Act");

        (2)    seek or obtain, as the undersigned's representative and on the
undersigned's behalf, information on transactions in the Company's securities
from any third party, including brokers, employee benefit plan administrators
and trustees, and the undersigned hereby authorizes any such person to release
any such information to the undersigned and approves and ratifies any such
release of information; and

        (3)    perform any and all other acts which in the discretion of such
attorneys-in-fact are necessary or desirable for and on behalf of the
undersigned in connection with the foregoing, including, as applicable,
preparing, executing in the undersigned's name and on the undersigned's behalf
and submitting to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") a Form
ID, including amendments thereto, and any other documents necessary or
appropriate to obtain codes, passwords, passphrases, enabling the undersigned to
make electronic filings with the SEC of reports required by Section 16(a) of the
Exchange Act, or any other rule or regulation of the SEC.

The undersigned acknowledges that:

        (1)    this Power of Attorney authorizes, but does not require, each
such attorney-in-fact to act in their discretion on information provided to
such attorney-in-fact without independent verification of such information;

        (2)    any documents prepared and/or executed by any of the attorneys-
in-fact on behalf of the undersigned pursuant to this Power of Attorney will be
in such form and will contain such information and disclosure as such attorney-
in-fact, in his or her discretion, deems necessary or desirable;

        (3)    neither the Company nor any of the attorneys-in-fact assumes (i)
any liability for the undersigned's responsibility to comply with the
requirements of the Exchange Act, (ii) any liability of the undersigned for any
failure to comply with such requirements, or (iii) any obligation or liability
of the undersigned for profit disgorgement under Section 16(b) of the Exchange
Act; and

        (4)    this Power of Attorney does not relieve the undersigned from
responsibility for compliance with the undersigned's obligations under the
Exchange Act, including without limitation the reporting requirements under
Section 16 of the Exchange Act.

        The undersigned hereby gives and grants each of the foregoing attorneys-
in-fact full power and authority to do and perform all and every act and thing
whatsoever requisite, necessary or appropriate to be done in and about the
foregoing matters as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might
or could do if present, with full power of substitution and revocation, hereby
ratifying all that such attorney-in-fact, or such attorney-in-fact's substitute
or substitutes, of, for and on behalf of the undersigned, shall lawfully do or
cause to be done by virtue of this Power of Attorney.

        This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the
earlier of (i) the date on which the undersigned is no longer required to file
Forms 3, 4 or 5 with respect to the undersigned's holdings of and transactions
in securities issued by the Company; (ii) as to the appointment of each of Mary
E. Higgins and any individual with the title General Counsel of the Company,
upon his or her resignation or termination as an employee of the Company; and
(iii) revocation of this Power of Attorney by the undersigned in a signed
writing delivered to each of such attorneys-in-fact. This Power of Attorney may
be filed with the Commission as a conforming statement of the authority granted
herein.

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        IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to
be executed as of this 29th day of September 2017.


                                        /s/ John Payne
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                                        John Payne