2–5 players
Collect coloured train cards and spend them claiming railway routes across North America. Complete the destination tickets in your hand for points, miss them and pay for it, and take the ten-point bonus for the longest unbroken line.
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Rail Baron is a route-building game played on a map of North America. Collect coloured train cards, spend them to claim the routes between cities, and try to join the cities named on the destination tickets in your hand before your rivals take the track you were counting on. Play online with friends, or pass one device around the table.
If you have played Ticket to Ride, Rail Baron will feel immediately familiar: collect matching cards, claim the route, complete the tickets nobody else can see. The map, the route network and the ticket deck are our own rather than a copy of any published board.
Two to five.
Yes. Pass-and-play mode runs in your browser at /games/rail-baron/local — one device, humans and bots, and the game is saved if you refresh.
Its points are subtracted from your score at the end of the game, so take on only the tickets you can realistically build.
No. Some city pairs have two parallel routes, but a player can never own both sides, and with two or three players only one side of each pair can be built at all.