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Game of Trains

Descending turns to ascending

Each player has a train engine and seven numbered cards, arranged in descending order, and wants to be first to have seven cards arranged in ascending order in his display. The car cards work for numbers or for card abilities.

At the start of the game, as the starting player, you draw one card, two as second player etc. to up to four cards as the fourth player, select one card and replace one card in your display with it; cards not selected are discarded and the replaced card is placed in an open row for card abilities. Whenever there are two or more cards of the same ability in this row, you remove them in pairs, in case of an uneven number one card remains.

In your turn you draw a card or use a card ability. If you draw a card you insert it into your row and place the replaced one into the ability row. To use a card you choose one from the abilities row, use the ability and discard the cad. Options for use are: Swapping two cards next to each other or to the left and right of one card; Relocating a card by two positions to the right or left; protect a card against being removed or remove the leftmost, middle or rightmost card in the row, this must be done by all players when chosen. Abilities must be implementable to be chosen.

Simple and yet very sophisticated! The exchange mechanism and the double use of cards result in a quick, thrilling game, basically intended for families, but also absolutely of interest for experienced players, especially due to the fact that you can influence the availability of card abilities by your selection of the card or cards that you discard after drawing a card.

Players: 2-4

Age: 8+

Time: 20+

Designer: Trehgrannik

Artist: Reinis Pétersson

Price: ca. 10 Euro

Publisher: Abacusspiele 2016

Web: www.abacusspiele.de

Genre: Card shunting, card effects

Users: For families

Version: multi

Rules: de en

In-game text: no

Comments:

Family game also enticing to experienced players

Easy to explain

Plays fast

Nice for holiday and traveling

Compares to:

Card games with pattern formation in a display

Other editions:

Brain Games (de ee en fr lt lv ru + hu), SD Games (es, announced), Rebel.pl (pl), dV Giochi /it)

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0