This game was designed by a woman known to history only as "Mrs. Shephard." This is the first game produced under license by Parker Brothers. (Source: The Game Makers: the Story of Parker Brothers by Philip Orbanes) The board is a stylized map illustrating activities which an American Tourist might engage in as they travel around Europe. The players start...
You have been reincarnated in this multidimensional realm as a travel writer. You and your fellow passengers ride on the Black Comet, an inter-dimensional railroad that connects all worlds. We will survey sightseeing attractions and interview passengers to write travel articles. The reporter who publishes the most travel articles will make a name for...
The Game At A Glance: Appalachian Rails is based on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad and its march across the coalfields of West Virginia. The railroad went into receivership after trying to burrow through difficult terrain. It was up to Colis Huntington, one of the “Big Four” in the transcontinental railroad, wanted to use the C&O as a railroad to link...
The Trains is a small expansion for Aquaretto consisting of 18 tiles which have either one of four different-colored trains or curves. These are mixed in with the other tiles and taken off trucks just like those tiles. The trains are added to any empty space in your zoo and each different type of train (the four colors and the curve) in your zoo scores 2...
The Caboose Expansion adds a strategic end game variant into Yardmaster that requires each player to attach the random Caboose Card they were assigned at the beginning of the game in order to win. The Caboose Expansion adds five new cards into the game. With The Caboose Expansion, Players shuffle the 5 cards and distribute them one per player. The Caboose...
This map is an unofficial fan made expansion. Symbols & Graphics Copyright © 2004-2015 Days of Wonder, Inc. Produced with permission of Days of Wonder, for non-commercial use only. This follows the principles of the basic Ticket to Ride game on a special board with special cards and rules. The object of the game is to gain the most points by travelling...
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe is a game that is about investing in combinations of the most profitable companies to earn the most money. The game models the westward expansion of railroads from the East Coast all the way to the Pacific. Players begin with a set number of cubes which they can choose to invest as shares, expand railroad networks, add to the...
Railroading game played out on an abstract map of the entire USA. Although not in the 18XX series, is in its vein as the center of interest and expertise is in management of the stock market, here represented by a matrix. Stock splits, dividends, bankruptcies and shareholder meetings are simulated. Meanwhile players move their pawns around the map's outer...
1-4 player co-operative card game that lets players take control of a post-apocalyptic, retro-future, caravan. "It feels like Race for the Galaxy Vs. Magic the Gathering with a splash of euro gaming with a nuclear fallout post apocalyptic setting." Why are you in a nuclear desert? Players control a rag-tag caravan that contains elements of how society was...
A harsh, forbidding land, Australia was a penal colony of the British Empire for decades. Only the far southeastern section had mountains and rivers and fertile land; when gold was discovered there in 1851, people rushed to this empty land in huge numbers. Commercial development boomed and the first railway was completed in 1854. With the population...