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Zug um Zug New York

Roads instead of rails

From Brooklyn to Manhattan, from the Empire State Building to Chinatown, using the famous New York taxi cabs instead of trains, using track built on the streets of New York, connecting tourist attractions.

You have 15 taxi cabs of your color and one – or optionally two – target cards for connections between two destinations in New York. Five taxi cards for transport cards are on display.

In your turn you select one of three options: 1. You draw two transport cards, either from the draw pile or the display or from both; cards taken from the display are replaced from the stack. 2. Use a track – you discard as many cards in the given color as stated on the board – multicolored cards jokers for any color – and put taxis on the board on each track section for points at the end of the game. For grey tracks you can use one color of your choice. 3. Draw target card – you draw two cards from the face-down stack for target cards and must keep one or can keep both. If, at the end of the game, you have built track between two locations stated on a target card, you score the points from the card. If you did not build the track, you lose that amount of points. Tracks build by one player need not interconnect. In your turn, you can only select option 2 – use a track – once. At the end of the game you score target cards, the lengths of all tracks you build and one point for each tourist attraction that is connected to your tracks.

New York is another well-made and enjoyable version of the basic Zug um Zug / Ticket to ride mechanism, featuring nice retro graphic design and rules in the style of a travelling brochure.

Players: 2-4

Age: 8+

Time: 60+

Designer: Alan R. Moon

Artist: Julien Delval

Price: ca. 25 Euro

Publisher: Days of Wonder / Asmodee 2018

Web: www.asmodee.de

Genre: Track building

Users: For families

Version: de

Rules: de dk en es fi fr it nl no pl se

In-game text: no

Comments:

Roads instead of railroad tracks

Otherwise standard mechanisms of the series

Nice retro graphics

Compares to:

All other versions of Zug um Zug / Ticket to Ride

Other editions:

Asterion (it), Days of Wonder (dk en fi fr nl no se), Edge Entertainment (es), Rebel (pl)

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