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- Winner places their money into the company's coffers | - Winner places their money into the company's coffers | ||
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- Detroit cannot be developed by players and develops itself by 1 at the end of each dividend phase | - Detroit cannot be developed by players and develops itself by 1 at the end of each dividend phase | ||
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- Players take 1-3 trains of a company they have a share of and place it anywhere on the board as long as it is connected to another train of the same color | - Players take 1-3 trains of a company they have a share of and place it anywhere on the board as long as it is connected to another train of the same color | ||
Revision as of 17:50, 5 May 2025
Overview:
Players invest in train companies to amass the most profits before the game ends. 2-6 players take turns either auctioning shares, developing locations or building trains to amass the most amount of money.
Game End:
- one of the following ends the game
- The game ends after a dividend, not immediately
List of Conditions
- 3 of the 4 companies runs out of shares (most common)
- 3 of the 4 companies runs out of trains
- 4 or less development pieces are remaining
- Players end the 8th round (Detroit's marker will exit the 8th space)
Actions:
Auction
- Minimum bid is the current value of the company divided by the shares out + the share being auctioned
- Players bid in turn order
- Passing means you are out of the bid
- Winner places their money into the company's coffers
Develop
- Developing a city/mountain/forest places a development house onto that space
- Any company in a developed city or mountain increases their value by the number indicated in the development symbol
- Any company in a developed forest receives $2 that goes into the company directly from the bank
- Developing the industrial cities Pittsburgh or Wheeling slides the development marker to the next space on the right, meaning they can be developed multiple times
- Detroit cannot be developed by players and develops itself by 1 at the end of each dividend phase
Build
- Players take 1-3 trains of a company they have a share of and place it anywhere on the board as long as it is connected to another train of the same color
- The company pays the cost of building which is the red number in the space it is entering
- Only one company can be in an individual forest or mountain space
- Cities and plains with companies in them increases the cost to place a train into that space which is the space's cost multiplied by the amount of companies already there
- Companies increase their income value by the number indicated in the train symbol to the right of the red cost number, increased further if the space is developed
- The value of the industrial cities Pittsburgh, Wheeling and Detroit is located on a separate area near the bottom of the board
- Only cities, industrial cities and mountains increase a company's income value