Vendor: Queen Games
Type: Board Games
Price:
49.95
Designer | David V. H. Peters, Harry Wu |
Publisher | Queen Games |
Players | 2-5 |
Playtime | 45 mins |
Suggested Age | 8 and up |
Honors |
2012 Hungarian Board Game Award Nominee 2010 Spiel des Jahres Recommended |
As members of merchant families the players marry into other wealthy merchant families. They expand the trading routes of these families and establish trade relationships with other families. The player having gained the most victory points with relationships and goods will be the winner at the end of the game.
Each turn the players either marry into a merchant family or expand the trading route of a family (they are already married into).
To marry into a family, the player pays the cost of the family. Only two players may marry into each family.
To expand the trading route of a family, the player must be married into the family and may pay for the route with the money of the family. The goal is to meet other families not met before (gaining trade relationship markers) and reaching goods spaces first (gaining good tokens).
If all families have established at least one trade relationship OR one family has established 5 trade relationship, the game ends.
Each player scores his good cards with the corresponding good markers he has acquired, the trade relationship markers he has collected and his money.
Samarkand is a family game with its simple to understand rules and fast access to play.
This entry has been split from the Winsome Games publication Age of Scheme: Routes to Riches. As the rules have been altered, number of players differs and updates to the artwork have been made, the two games are regarded as separate entities.
Vendor: Queen Games
Type: Board Games
Price:
24.95
Designer |
Harry Wu |
Publisher | Queen Games |
Players | 3-5 |
Playtime | 90 mins |
Suggested Age | 12 and up |
Preußische Ostbahn is the second game in Winsome's Historic Railroads System and was initially released at Essen 2008 and was reprinted in January 2010. Queen Games is scheduled to release this game in July 2011 as "German Railways", which will be the first in their Iron Horse collection.
The Queen Games version will have considerably improved components, and the rules will not be modified from those of the original release.
In addition, each Railroad now has a special characteristic, based upon its history:
Preußische Ostbahn is a German Family Game.
Vendor: Queen Games
Type: Board Games
Price:
64.95
Designer | Harry Wu |
Publisher | Queen Games |
Players | 2-6 |
Playtime | 60 mins |
Suggested Age | 12 and up |
Honors | |
Expansions | Chicago Express: Narrow Gauge & Erie Railroad Company |
Harry Wu's Chicago Express is an innovative new boardgame with no luck factor. Chicago Express was originally released in a limited format by Winsome Games as Wabash Cannonball and it was the first game in Winsome's Historic Railroads System.
In the game the B&O, C&O, Pennsylvania and New York Central railroads drive from the East Coast across the growing eastern US to Chicago. Smaller, more aggressive railroads like the Wabash spring up to further expand America's extensive railroads. The sharpest railroad executives vie for the maximum return on their investment in this business game lasting about one hour.