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Pocket Rails

Pocket Rails

Mr. B Games · 2023
2–410–15 min0+ yrs2.5/5 complexity6.5 BGG#20.985 BGG166KidsStrategy
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How do you play Pocket Rails?

A Fast Card Game for 2-4 players where you draft Rail Road Shares into your Portfolio as well as the Rail Yard for everyone to score. Each player a hand of 8 cards featuring a city, company, and good (in a 4 player game a hand is 6 cards).

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Pocket Rails box art
official art · Mr. B Games

A Fast Card Game for 2-4 players where you draft Rail Road Shares into your Portfolio as well as the Rail Yard for everyone to score.

Each player a hand of 8 cards featuring a city, company, and good (in a 4 player game a hand is 6 cards).

Each player selects one card to place face up in their Portfolio (directly in front of them) and one card to place face up in the Rail Yard (center of the table).

All players simultaneously reveals these cards and sorts them into Companies (colors) for ease of viewing.

If a player ever has 3 cards of the SAME City AND Company in their Portfolio, these three cards are “Over Invested” and discarded.

This concludes the round.

After rounds 2 and 3 each player scores companies and goods in their portfolio multiplied by the number of matching companies and goods in the rail yard. The person with the highest score after round 3 wins!

game anatomy
Complexity2.5 / 5
BGG rating6.5 / 10
Vibe
KidsStrategy
Play time
10–15 min
Players
2–4
Recommended age
0+ yrs
BGG rank
#20.985
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Q3How do you play Pocket Rails?
Pocket Rails is a economic game, for 2–4 players, taking ~10–15 minutes, featuring closed drafting. Check the Rules tab for setup, gameplay, and scoring, or ask Trișache anything about Pocket Rails — our AI assistant built by howtoplay.ro and trained specifically on board game rulebooks.
Q4How many players does Pocket Rails support?
Pocket Rails is played by 2–4 players.
Q5How long does a game of Pocket Rails take?
A game of Pocket Rails takes about 10–15 minutes. (The first game doesn't count. It never counts.)
Q6What age is Pocket Rails for?
Pocket Rails is recommended from age 0.
Q7How complex is Pocket Rails?
Pocket Rails has a BoardGameGeek complexity of 2.5 out of 5.
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