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Game Entry

Metro

(1997)
User Rating: 6.5 / 10 (2040 Ratings)
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GameID: 559
Rank: 585
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Information

Designed By: Dirk Henn
Published By: Queen
db-Spiele
Tactic
Überplay
Mfg suggested # of Players: 2 - 6 players
User suggested # of Players:
(Not best with any number of players)
Recommended with 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 players
(14 voters) [poll]
Playing Time: 45 Minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages: 8 and up
User Suggested Ages: 8 and up
(4 voters) [poll]
Language Dependence: No necessary in-game text
(7 voters) [poll]
Category: Trains
Mechanics: Tile Placement
Route/Network Building
Other Names:
Iron Horse

Description

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Similar to Streetcar/Linie 1, Tsuro and Spaghetti Junction, this game has players putting square tiles onto the board to form rail lines. The major difference in this game, however, is that players are not striving to make short, direct routes like those sought in Streetcar. Instead, the object of the game is to make the rail lines as long as possible. Players start with a number of trains ringing the board. Whenever a tile placement connects a train to a station (either on the edge or the center of the board), that train is removed and the player scores one point for each tile that the route crosses, which can cause one tile to score multiple times if the track loops around. However, players score double for city connections, which are the stations in the center of the board.

The game Tsuro uses similar mechanisms to this game.

The game was originally issued as Iron Horse.

2001 Mensa Select
2005 Nominert til Årets Familiespill - Nominated for Family Game of the Year Norway

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User Rank: 585
Num Ratings: 2040
Average Rating: 6.50
Standard Deviation: 1.27
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Users Owning: 1892
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1 Metro RO
MetroRO.pdf
Reguli in limba Romana. http://www.boardgames.ro
0 Metro
metro.zip
Freeware version to play against the computer or hot-seat games
3 Metro Tuckbox.pdf
Metro Tuckbox.pdf
Metro Tuckbox for Track Tiles with artwork. Fits Queen Games version.
0 Metro ( Reglas de juego ).doc
Metro ( Reglas de juego ).doc
Spanish rules ( REGLAS de juego )
1 MetroRules.doc
MetroRules.doc
English translation of German rules
1 Metro_Small_Format.pdf
Metro_Small_Format.pdf
Metro Rules in Small Format - .pdf
1 MetroRules.txt
MetroRules.txt
Rules of Iron Horse, Modified to better fit Metro