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C. C. Higgins Rail Pass box art
2014 Ranked #16,184

C. C. Higgins Rail Pass

A railroad route-planning game has executives travel North America, collect rail passes, and race to payday cities. Free travel from passes supports efficient routes, while color and railroad sets determine the highest final score.

Family Games Trains Travel Point to Point Movement Set Collection

Players

2-6

Play time

60-120 min

Age

8+

Complexity

1.67/5

Rating

6.38

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

At a glance

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.4/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 4.0/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.7/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.1/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.7/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

C. C.

Core mechanisms

Key systems that shape the decisions players make.

Set Collection

Gather related items that become more valuable when scored together.
Network and Route Building

Create connected routes that improve reach, delivery, control, or scoring.
Point-to-Point Movement

Move along explicit connections between named locations or nodes.
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C. C. Higgins Rail Pass is a railroad board game that lets you relive the excitement of a railroad executive in the heyday of rail travel. Basically a roll-and-move game without the dice, passes may be used to facilitate free rail travel. Collect color-coded sets of rail passes as you travel the rails of North American railroad companies of 1920. Plan your routes as you race to designated payday cities utilizing the free travel from the rail passes you obtain along the way. The goal of the game is to garner the most points by combining rail passes into various sets defined by having the most passes in color categories and types of Railroads. C. C. Higgins Rail Pass is a completely luck-free strategy game that is both simple and extremely flexible in play.

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Type

2
Family Games Strategy Games

Category

2
Trains Travel

Mechanism

3
Network and Route Building Point to Point Movement Set Collection

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Game and edition data

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Play and group

Players
2–6
Best with
2–6
Play time
60–120 min
Age
8+
Complexity
1.7/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
Patrick Stevens

Artists

3
Mike Neumann David Prieto Patrick Stevens

Publishers

1
Numbskull Games

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