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Welcome to Fun with Boxes, Episode 42: Pioneer Rails
Today I am taking a look at a western flip and write board game designed by Matthew Dunstan and Jeffrey D Allers and published by Dranda Games.
In Pioneer rails you will be expanding your railroad across the Old West and to do this you will be using multipurpose poker cards that will allow you to determine from which station you can start your tracks from and of course will be used to form a poker hand at the end of each of the games 4 rounds.
Lets take a closer look at this great game!!
*** update: at 10:36 - when talking about Cattle Ranches I mention Station, but the arrow points to a town in error - it should have pointed to the 'Hearts' Station - a big thanks to a viewer who got in touch to clarify ***
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Chapters
00:00 Intro
01:31 Stop Motion
02:15 Setup
03:19 Gameplay
04:41 Building a Poker Hand
05:21 Extending your Railway
06:47 Saloons
07:24 Forts
07:38 Mines / Gold Nuggets
07:53 Banks
08:20 Rail Yards
08:58 Towns
09:23 Town Abilities
09:56 Cattle Ranches
11:01 Final Scoring
11:58 Review
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