Watch “Ian Plays...Pioneer Rails,” a gameplay video for Pioneer Rails from Where There's A Wilz, There's a Play on BoardGameVideo.
Description provided by Where There's A Wilz, There's a Play on YouTube:
In Pioneer Rails you will expand your railroad across the Old West using multipurpose poker cards. The suit of the card determines which station you will start your rail lines from. The card itself is used to build the best poker hand to score points.
You will connect surrounding features to score points in various and unique ways. On top of that, you have 3 face down goal cards, in the easy mode of solo play that are unknown to you at the beginning of the game. You can also add extra face up goal cards at the beginning of the game to add more difficulty.
Join me as I run through a beginner game (1 face up goal card) of the solo play of Pioneer Rails.
Timestamps:
Intro 0:00
The Components 0:46
Game Set Up 3:36
Gamepad Closer Look 5:10
Mode Explanation 10:08
Round 1 12:23
Round 2 19:34
Round 3 25:34
Round 4 32:14
Final Scoring 37:09
Extra Components (Kickstarter) 39:40
Final Thoughts 42:08
Outro 43:47
Mainly reviews. Pioneer Rails is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 14 reviews, 7 how-to-play guides, 5 recorded sessions, 4 unboxings, and 2 other videos.
1 - 80 players
30 - 45 min
Light weight: Learn it in minutes
About Pioneer Rails, from BoardGameGeek:
In Pioneer Rails, you represent a railroad owner who has seen an opportunity to expand your empire across the new lands of the frontier. You'll compete against other railroad owners to plan your railway in the best way possible to connect establishments to the railroad and satisfy the demands of the locals.
In this flip-and-write game, you use poker cards to extend your railway tracks and build a poker hand at the same time. Each turn, you choose one of the revealed poker cards. The suit of the card helps you extend your railway, connecting you to new towns and surrounding features. When you connect to a town, you gain the ability to do a one-time bonus. When you surround a feature with your tracks, you activate it for endgame scoring. The value of the card is added to your poker hand, for which you'll score additional points at the end of the round.
Three common goals are also in play each game, giving you incentives to build in different directions.
The mechanism of surrounding features to activate them gives Pioneer Rails a satisfying "puzzley" feel to the game.
-description from the publisher
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