Watch “Choo Choose A Card - A Pioneer Rails Solo Play by The Groom,” a gameplay video for Pioneer Rails from Merry Married Meeples on BoardGameVideo.
Description provided by Merry Married Meeples on YouTube:
I have a fascination for roll and write, flip and write, verb and write games. Well Dranda Games has released a new game called Pioneer Rails. In this one you will have 2 poker cards to choose from. You will use the value to form a poker hand at the end of each round and use the suit to determine what station you draw tracks from each turn. Try to trigger the right buildings while managing your poker hand to score points above the target score. And oh yeah, keep an eye on the goals.
00:00 Start
01:30 Rules
06:32 Playthrough
24:57 Scoring
Unboxing - https://youtu.be/aV7-P8M8v1E
BGG: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/362164/pioneer-rails
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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