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Pennsylvania Railroad

Players

3-6

Time

90-150

Age

21+

Weight

3

Rating

7.84

Fit

Teach 2.3

Teaching signal

Replay 4.0

High replayability

Interaction 3.7

Highly interactive

Scaling 4.0

Scales well

Strategy 4.5

Deep strategy

Control 3.8

More strategic control

Table feel

Pennsylvania Railroad has a high level of direct confrontation and strategic depth in confrontation. Players need to frequently pay attention to and react to each other's strategies. However, there is less emphasis on cooperation in the game.

Replay value

Pennsylvania Railroad has a high variability gameboard, good expansions available, deep strategic depth, moderate player interaction, good scalability, and moderate easiness to learn. Overall, it offers a highly replayable experience.

Luck profile

The final luck score for Pennsylvania Railroad is 7.67, indicating a game with minimal randomness impact and substantial strategic mitigation. Random elements have minimal influence on the game outcome, which primarily relies on player strategy and decisions. Players have substantial ability to mitigate randomness through strategic decisions and planning. Pennsylvania Railroad is a game where player skill and strategy play a significant role in determining the outcome.

Overview

Pennsylvania Railroad is a big game, with a three panel mapboard, and it has the Pennsylvania Railroad, the New York Central Railroad, the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, the Boston & Maine Railroad and the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad. The map stretches from Maine to Virginia, Missouri to Canada. The game is for 3 to 6 players and takes about 2 hours to play. There is no luck, just hard driving economic warfare between the competing railroads. Railroad sell shares, build track, develop logging camps, mines & communities and pay out dividends to their shareholders. At the end of the game, the player with the most money wins. —description from the publisher

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Credits

Designers

1
John Bohrer

Publishers

1
Winsome Games