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2020 Ranked #17,431

Skyline Express Roll & Write

A roll-and-write passenger-placement game where managers fill train carriages to score the most points. Dice determine passenger types and extra effects, while goals, services, and VIP clusters reward carefully arranged compartments.

Dice Print & Play Paper-and-Pencil Pattern Recognition

Players

1-4

Play time

15-30 min

Age

8+

Complexity

1/5

Rating

6.44

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 3.8/5

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?

The first aerial train needs a manager. Manage your carriage as best as you can by properly placing passengers, offering them services and paying attention to their individual preferences.

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The first aerial train needs a manager. Manage your carriage as best as you can by properly placing passengers, offering them services and paying attention to their individual preferences. Prove that you are the right person to manage the Skyline Express! Skyline Express is a low entry family board game where you manage your carriage by stratigicaly placing passengers in order to gain the most points at the end ofthe game. Passengers are represented by dice which are rolled by the first player. Every turn each players picks one die and places (colors in) that type of passenger in his carriage and resolves extra steps depending on the value of that die. The game ends when all carriages are full. Players gain points in 3 ways: GOALS - different "patterns" of passengers in the carriage SERVICES - pairs of pasengers in a spcific set of colors VIP passengers - All passengers of value 5 and 6 become VIP. Every VIP scores 1VP + 1VP for every passenger of the same color in his compartment. —description from the publisher

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Play and group

Players
1–4
Best with
2
Play time
15–30 min
Age
8+
Complexity
1.0/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
Kamil Langie

Artists

1
Jaros?aw Wajs

Publishers

1
Thistroy Games

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