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String Railway

String for track, once again

2010 an eye-catcher and collector’s item at Essen – 2012 re-published by Asmodee: String Railway, a railway game in which board, tracks, mountains or rivers are represented by colored strings; each player owns a railway company.

You place stations into the playing area and connect them with your string tracks to form the best possible net. Each player has five strings in his color, 4 short ones of about 30 cm, one long one with 60 cm. The black string marks the playing area, featuring white markers for 2-4 players and red ones for 5 players. The gray string circle represents the mountains, the light blue one the river.

In your turn you draw a station, place stations and also one of the five track strings and then score. Stations must be placed within the playing area, must not touch other stations and must not be positioned on top or under other strings. A track string must be placed within the playing area, it may not cross itself and both ends must touch your own stations or your own track. The track string must not be underneath stations, other track string or the strings for playing area, river or mountain. One string may not use the same station twice. You score for newly placed stations and lose 1 point per crossing of strings. Strings on stations can be crossed without penalty. Then stations placed by the active player and stations belonging to other players are taken into account. Touching junctions scores 1 point for each junction.

A simple but not really easy game, which all the same is easy enough for family play and is of course of absolute interest for fans of railway games.

Players: 2-5

Age: 8+

Time: 30+

Designer: Hisashi Hayashi

Artist: Salaün Jaouen

Price: ca. 18 Euro

Publisher: Asmodee 2012

Web: de.asmodee.com

Genre: Placement, railway

Users: For families

Version: de

Rules: de en jp

In-game text: no

Comments:

Unusual implementation of the topic

Of special interest for fans of railway games

Compares to:

All railway games for topic, first game with such components

Other editions:

String Railway, Okazu Brand, Japan; Foxmind, USA

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0