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Trambahn

Rail building in Munich

The new Tramway in Munich is successful and expansion is in the works, not only with new routes and new stations, but also with technical improvement, from the horse-powered engines to steam-powered and, finally, electrically powered ones.

The game features 112 Station cards in four colors for four routes, eight Conductors as jokers and 16 Tramway cards as well as for Terminal Station cards. The Station cards can be used in three ways; you play them as station on a route or as passengers on a route, both open-faced, or face-down as money to pay for new tramways.

The active player must play one or two cards from hand for passengers, next to the corresponding Terminal Station. Four passengers at a route trigger a scoring of all routes of that color, points on the card times value of the Tramway card.

As your second action you can place any number of cards from your hand for a route into your own display, one color in a route and ascending values, there can be gaps. Conductors can be placed anytime, do not score but can trigger Extra Tours. The 8^th card in a route triggers an Extra Tour, the route is scored.

As a 3^rd action you can place cards as money on your money stack, face-down, and finally, as your 4^th action, buy one or more tramways, pay with money from your stack and immediately assign them to one of your routes. If you then have routes without a tramway, the cards in it go to your money stack. After the 10^th scoring you win with most points!

A rock-solid game and exactly as a game for two should be! Historical background, good rules, easily accessible mechanisms, lots of tactic and interaction and yet good for a casual gamer!

Players: 2

Age: 8+

Time: 30+

Designer: Helmut Ohley

Artist: Klemens Franz

Price: ca. 18 Euro

Publisher: Mayfair Games 2015

Web: www.mayfairgames.com

Genre: Railway, set collection

Users: For families

Special: 2 players

Version: en

Rules: de en

In-game text: no

Comments:

Lots of tactic based on simple mechanisms

Good rules allow for easy access

An entirely good game for two

Compares to:

Bohnanza and others for multiple use of cards, track building

Other editions:

Lookout Spiele (de)

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 3

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