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RULES:
Give each player tile holders so that 1-10 are displayed in order. The object of the game is to be the first player to complete a 10 day journey across the United States. Completed journeys start and end with a state tile, and each day is connected to the next appropriately.
You make connections from one day to the next 1 of 3 ways: By foot, which is when 2 states that boarder each other are side by side in the tile holder; By automobile, you go from one state to another through a third bordering state with a car tile in between the two on your tile holder; or by airplane, when you have a airplane tile next to two states of the same color.
Transportation tiles next to each other are not connected. Alaska and Hawaii may only be connected to by airplane and the airplane color only needs to match the destination or departure state. Any color airplane may be used for travel between Alaska and Hawaii.
To start the game, shuffle the tiles and players randomly pick 10 tiles, one at a time and place in any open tile holder position. Stack the remaining tiles and discard 3 into separate piles. Select a player to go first and play goes clockwise.
On your turn you may either swap two tiles in your tile holder or you may pick a new tile from either the a discard pile or draw deck and replace it with one in your tile holder (discarding the replaced tile in any one of the 3 discard piles). If you choose to take the last tile from a discard pile, you must discard your replaced tile to the empty spot.
At the end of a player’s turn if they have completed a 10 day journey, they reveal their tiles and confirm with the other players that all the days connect together and are the winner.
If you want the game to be more challenging remove the “swap tile” rule.
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2 - 4 players
30 min
Light weight: Learn it in minutes
About 10 Days in the USA, from BoardGameGeek:
You have 10 Days in the USA. Travel the country by jet, car, and on foot. Plan your trip from start to finish using destination and transportation tiles. With a little luck and clever planning, you just might outwit your fellow travelers.
This is the first installment in the 10 Days in series.
There are 50 state tiles, 10 colored airplane tiles, and 6 car tiles. Players all flip tiles one at a time, examine them, and put them in the 10 "days" of their tile tray, in any order. Then in turn, they draw a tile from one of three face-up piles or a face-down pile. The new tile may replace one tile in their tray, with the replaced tile (or the unused drawn tile) discarded onto any of the face-up piles. When a player has all their days connected correctly, they win the game.
Travel Connections:
By Foot - bordering state tiles may be placed side-by-side
By Automobile - states may be connected by driving through a third state which borders them both (the car tile is put between them)
By Air - Two states of the same color may be connected by a same-color airplane placed between them
Designers
Alan R. Moon, Aaron Weissblum
Artists
Jacqui Davis, Gustaf Ö. Hjalmars, John Kovalic, Cathleen Quinn-Kinney