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The Railroad Dice players are investors who, by the acquisition of shares, try to become Diretcors of railway companies. The winner is the player who has carried the most passengers during the game. The Railroad Dice are used to lay track, buy shares and build stations.

Each railroad die has these symbols on it: While the dice are behind your screen, they are just a collection of dice - which way up they are does not matter. When you move them in front of the screen they are rolled and become fixed. Dice that come up with the question mark can be rerolled in future rounds, and you get an extra die from the bank for each of these you reroll. They might not stick around long enough, though, because you can use the question mark dice to lay track, pay for building in mountains and over lakes, or buy shares.

You can join a standard game, or an extended game, which enlarges the bank from 40 to 60 dice and reduces the chance that the game will end due to the bank running out of dice.

You may not have this game, as the only sales were some 300 copies sold at the 2003 Essen Game Fair. No problem - Jens Kappe has kindly given permission for the game to be played here, and he has published the rules on his web site (in Adobe PDF format).

I have created a reference page for the game. This does not include the full rules, but covers the main points on the various actions that can be performed.

Railroad Dice was designed by Jens Kappe and is published by Wassertal Spieleverlag.

You will need to know the rules of the game in order to play. You can download the rules from the Wassertal Spieleverlag web site.

Playing via the Web

As with all games, rules are required. Please read the rules of engagement that cover For Whom The Web Rocks games. The following additional rules apply to these Railroad Dice games.

Railroad Dice games require two to four players.
Please use a subject of Railroad Dice exxx when sending orders (replace the 'xxx' with the game number, e.g. Railroad Dice e999).
When it is your turn I will remind you how many dice are 'behind your screen'. All other information will be shown on the game page.
When you roll dice during your turn, I will update the page to show what you have rolled and notify you what you now hold.
When playing face-to-face, you use a set of large tiles to place the dice on, and a set of small tiles to represent the total landscape built during the game. This is to keep the playing area a workable size. On the web site I shall only be using the set of small tiles. The full route of the railroad will therefore be shown at all times. This does not change the way the game works in any way. Track may still only be added at each end of the track, and you may not lay track so that it runs onto previously laid tiles.
Moves made for players by the referee will normally involve actions to improve the player's potential score.

For Whom The Web Rocks Railroad Dice e-Games

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Railroad Dice e-Games