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Year Published
1980
# of Players:
2 − 6
User Suggested # of Players
Best with 3 players
Recommended with 2, 3, 4 players
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Playing Time
180 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages
12 and up
User Suggested Ages
8
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Language Dependence
Some necessary text - easily memorized or small crib sheet
(4 voters) [poll]
Category
Mechanic
Primary Name
Empire Builder
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Families
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The original and flagship of Mayfair's crayon-rails line allows players to draw their train routes over a map of the United States. Players start with enough money to build short lengths of track, and by running their trains and delivering loads to various cities acquire more cash to expand their networks.

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2 Chicago Rails
This is a Variant to Empire Builder of the Chicago Area. I've included the innerworkings of the game design that would allow anyone else to design a game for any area.
2009-11-16
1 SoloPlay_EmpireBuilder_v1.pdf
File contains the rules to be able to play a SoloPlay variant for Empire Builder. The game plays quickly, in about an 60-90 minutes. It will challenge the experienced Empire Builder player. All attempts have been made to give this variant a high level of variability in the play.
2009-10-16
8 Empire Builder Goods Reference Page from 2008 Edition Rule Book
Corrected vertical alignment. This is the goods reference page from the 2008 edition rule book. You can print it front and back and then cut down the middle to get 2 reference sheets per page.
2009-03-30
2 Master list of loads (by icon) used in all Crayon Rails games
Updated, added Martian rails, changes from new edition EuroRials
2007-09-26
3 Empire Builder 5th Ed Playsheet Source.xls
Excel sourcefile to the Playsheet PDF; with this, a player can use the values from the contracts in calculations on optimal routing, connections, and any other desired algorithms for advanced play.
2006-08-23
1 Empire Builder Playsheet 5th Ed.pdf
Compilation of demand cards organized by city. Each city is listed individually with production and demand cargoes; each demanded cargo is then referenced to the cities in which it is produced.
2006-08-03
7 EmpireBuilder_Aid.pdf
A very useful table listing cities producing each kind of good, goods produced by each city and geographic areas for locating cities on the board. It's an Acrobat (PDF) document.
2003-03-17
Statistics
Board Game Rank: 390
Num Ratings: 1345
Average Rating: 6.88
Standard Deviation: 1.49
Num Views: 72378
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Personal Comments: 543
Users Owning: 1608
Users Wanting: 56
Users Trading: 74
Has Parts For Trade: 1
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Total Plays: 1840
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