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Contents

Introduction

Games included in this list

Glossary

1 - First Share Dealing Round

• 1.1 - How much cash do players start with?
• 1.2 - Does the price of a private company drop by 5 for no sale in the first round?
• 1.3 - Can you sell company shares in the first round?
• 1.4 - Can you make advance bids?

2 - Subsequent Share Dealing Rounds

• 2.1 - Is there a specific order to buying and selling on your turn?
• 2.2 - Are you limited to buying one certificate on your turn?
• 2.3 - When can you first sell shares in a company?
• 2.4 - Does the bank pool have a per-company share limit?
• 2.5 - What are the player certificate limits?
• 2.6 - What are the player certificates limits for shares in one company?
• 2.7 - Does the stock price drop when stock is sold?
• 2.8 - Does the stock price go up at the end of the share dealing round for a fully-held corporation?
• 2.9 - Can you buy a certificate and immediately sell a certificate in the same company?
• 2.10 - Can companies buy shares?
• 2.11 - What ends a share dealing round?
• 2.12 - Can a player sell private companies to another player?

3 - Company Flotation

• 3.1 - Do you lay the base station token immediately upon floating?
• 3.2 - How many shares must be sold for a company to float?
• 3.3 - Does a company get full capitalisation upon floating?
• 3.4 - How is a share company's initial (par) price determined?

4 - Operations

• 4.1 - In what order do companies operate?
• 4.2 - If you sell shares so that their tokens end up in one stack, what order are they stacked in?

5 - Tile Lays

• 5.1 - Where can you make an initial tile lay?
• 5.2 - Can you lay two tiles in a turn?
• 5.3 - Must a tile replacement extend existing track?
• 5.4 - Do villages upgrade?

6 - Station Markers

• 6.1 - Cost of station markers
• 6.2 - Can you lay more than one station marker per turn?
• 6.3 - Where can you lay a station marker?
• 6.4 - When is a company's first station marker laid?

7 - Trains Run

• 7.1 - Can you run into a city completely filled by rival station markers?
• 7.2 - Can you do a run that passes through a city completely filled by rival station markers?
• 7.3 - Unusual rules about running
• 7.4 - Can one train run to two stations on the same tile?
• 7.5 - Is double-heading allowed?
• 7.6 - Rules about villages
• 7.7 - Must the maximum possible revenue be claimed?

8 - Payment of Earnings

• 8.1 - Does stock move right for payment of dividends?
• 8.2 - What dividend payments go into the company's treasury?
• 8.3 - Does stock move left for withheld earnings?
• 8.4 - Can a company make a partial payout?

9 - Purchasing Trains

• 9.1 - Can companies buy trains from one another?
• 9.2 - Must a major share company buy a train if it does not have one?
• 9.3 - Can trains be sold back to the bank?
• 9.4 - When a company is forced to buy a train and cannot buy one with its own means, what train may it then buy?
• 9.5 - Must a minor company buy a train if it does not have one?
• 9.6 - Can trains of the final type be purchased as soon as one train of the next-to-last type is purchased?
• 9.7 - Can a company buy more than one train from the bank per OR?

10 - Private Companies

• 10.1 - Are private companies purchasable between players?
• 10.2 - Are private companies purchasable by share companies?
• 10.3 - Does a private company prevent builds in its home hex(es) while it is owned by a player?
• 10.4 - Does using a private company's special property close it?
• 10.5 - When do private companies close?
• 10.6 - Can you buy and sell private companies in other ways?

11 - Directorship/Presidency of a Share Company

• 11.1 - Can the Director's certificate ever be in the bank pool?
• 11.2 - Can you exchange the Director's certificate for regular shares from another player when you sell shares to the bank pool?
• 11.3 - After a sale of shares forces a change in Director, who gets it in case of a tie?

12 - Game Phases

13 - End of Game

• 13.1 - Game ends immediately with a bankruptcy?
• 13.2 - What happens if the bank runs out of money during an operating round?
• 13.3 - What happens when stock first hits the top end of the market?
• 13.4 - What happens if the bank runs out of money during a stock round?

14 - Secrecy

• 14.1 - Is a player's cash secret, or open for inspection?
• 14.2 - Is a company's cash secret, or open for inspection?
• 14.3 - Is the cash involved in transactions secret, or must it be made public?
• 14.4 - Is the cash in the bank secret, or must it be made public?

15 - Inventories

• 15.1 - Total cash in game
• 15.2 - Trains available
• 15.3 - Tiles available
• 15.4 - Other items in limited supply

16 - Miscellaneous

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