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Central Pacific box art
2006 Ranked #20,855

Central Pacific

This railroad-building game has players forge rail links across the United States, tunnel through terrain, and connect cities. Players can steal rival links, so an expanding network is both a route to completion and a target for interference.

Trains Tile Placement

Players

2-4

Play time

Not listed

Age

10+

Complexity

2/5

Rating

5.65

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

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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 4.4/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

Publisher's Description: Can you build the first transcontinental railroad across the United States? Central Pacific is a 2-4 player, wide open game of building railroads.

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Tile Placement

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Publisher's Description: Can you build the first transcontinental railroad across the United States? Central Pacific is a 2-4 player, wide open game of building railroads. Build over and tunnel under mountains, through forests. Forge rail links between cities and steal a few of your opponents'. A great introduction to railroad gaming, and a quick fix for those already addicted to the genre. Can be played out-of-pocket on any surface. It's the perfect answer to the question "What should we play while we wait for Pete to show up? Includes: 80 wooden rail tiles 1 "Golden Spike" 28 train (player) tokens 8 Stock Market / Land Grant tokens

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Family

1
Components: 10 x 10 Grids

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Play and group

Players
2–4
Best with
2
Play time
45 min
Age
10+
Complexity
2.0/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
Steve Jones (I)

Artists

1
(Uncredited)

Publishers

1
Blue Panther

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