Trans America

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Trans America
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Game data
author Franz-Benno Delonge
graphic Marcel-André Casasola Merkle
publishing company Winning Moves ,
Rio Grande Games ,
etc. a.
Publishing year 2002
Art Board game
Teammates 2 to 6
Duration 30 minutes
Age from 8 years

Awards

German Games Award 2002: 2nd place
Game of the Year 2002: Nomination list
Game of Games 2002: Spiele Hit (games for families)
Swiss Game Award 2002 Family Games : 3rd place
Mensa Select 2003
Dutch Game
Award 2003: nominated Gamers Choice Award 2003: Multiplayer Nominees

Game of Games 2005 (for Trans Europe )

Trans America is a board game by the game designer Franz-Benno Delonge for 2–6 players, ages eight and up. It deals with the topic of railways. The game was released in 2002 by Winning Moves .

Two to six players build a railroad network on a map of the USA . At the beginning of the game, each player receives 5 city ​​cards and must connect these cities with each other until the end of the round. In contrast to many other railway games, the players build on a common network. The players take turns placing one or two pieces of rail on the pre-printed rail network. When the first player has connected all his cities to the grid, the round ends. The other players lose one point for each piece of track they still need to connect their cities (from the beginning of 13). The game continues until another player has no more points. The player with the most points remaining wins.

Trans America can also be played as a browser game.

The game was nominated for Game of the Year in 2002. In the same year it was awarded 2nd place in the German Game Award . One reason for the award was also the simple rules of the game: The game board shows the map of the United States of America (excluding Alaska and Hawaii), on which selected large cities are entered. These cities are divided into five regions marked in color (e.g. the cities on the west coast in green, the southern USA in red, etc.) and connected by a triangular grid. For each city there is a playing card, the back of which bears the city's color.

Each player now receives exactly one card with a city from each group (region) and must now try to build a "rail network" that reaches all five cities starting from his starting stone, which he can place anywhere on any node of the grid. To do this, he places small wooden sticks on the net as rails; alternately each player can place a maximum of two of them in one turn.

After each player has to connect all five regions, the networks grow together quickly, and you can use and expand the paths your opponent has already built.

The first player to connect all of his cities wins the game. The opponents get minus points for their missing railroad tracks.

Trans Europe

In 2005 , a variant of Trans America appeared under the name Trans Europa , the game plan of which shows a stylized map of Europe. The game principle remains the same. In 2005, Trans Europa received the Austrian Game of Games award .

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