For anyone familiar with Get the Goods/Reibach and Co.. The theme here is running and organizing a freight yard. There are three days (rounds) and at the end of each you score for having the longest or second longest train in each car type, or one mixed train in which the cars all have to be different. On the first day you also get one point for every 2...
French Rails is a Print and Play map in the crayon rails series of games. Players receive demand cards where cities want different goods. These goods and cities are scattered across the map, and the players must construct track by drawing on the board to connect the cities with the goods they demand. Each demand card has three different deliveries on it...
In The Fun Game of Switch players are trying to be the first to assemble a full train by rolling to move along tracks and switch between the inner and outer track lines. It is a simple spin-and-move game with 'Switches' that can alter your direction of movement. When reaching a switch, the player stops and rolls again to see which track line to use to move...
One of the recommended games for the Spiel des Jahres 1983, the theme features ferrying passengers via trains to their appropriate stations. The game shares some characteristics with Ludo/Parcheesi, except with two moving tracks and cards instead of dice. A variation using a color die instead of the ticket cards is: Stop the Train ! In 2020 the game...
Each players has a locomotive which journeys to destinations across the United States seeking to buy the most valuable commodities. The game ends when ten trips have been completed by one of the players. The winner is the player who obtained commodities having the highest total value. The game components include the box, a game board depicting an...
Gavitt's Stock Exchange is widely credited as the inspiration for the perennial best-seller Pit by Parker Brothers. The box and rules for the original game by Topeka, Kansas-based entrepreneur Harry E. Gavitt say it was covered by four copyrights and multiple patents dating as early as Sept. 15, 1896. The only thing it has in common with the Pit game...
In General Palmer each player has their own slightly different board on which they build track and stations. This is done by means of action cards; players start with some in hand and draft a new one each round. Each player also plays a card each round which gives them an action and also permits a certain number of track tiles to be built. Actions can...
This is a web-publsihed variant based on the well-known Empire Builder system by Mayfair Games. True to its name, the game takes place on a map of Germany. Of interest to gamers, one of the loads in this game is games. This was designed by the same designer of the similar game, African Rails. The game can be downloaded at:...