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Information
Designed By
Art By
Published By
Year Published
1980
# of Players:
2 − 6
User Suggested # of Players
Best with 3 players
Recommended with 2, 3, 4 players
(20 voters) [poll]
Playing Time
180 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages
12 and up
User Suggested Ages
10
(3 voters) [poll]
Language Dependence
Some necessary text - easily memorized or small crib sheet
(4 voters) [poll]
Category
Mechanic
Primary Name
Empire Builder
Alternate Names
Expanded By
Families
Description Edit | History

The original and flagship of Mayfair's crayon-rails line allows players to draw their train routes over a map of the United States. Players start with enough money to build short lengths of track, and by running their trains and delivering loads to various cities acquire more cash to expand their networks.

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1 Load Tokens Replacement Print File
PDF File for printing on Avery 5167 Return address Labels (80/sheet) My Game was missing many of the load tokens, so, using this image: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/image/250451/empire-builder I created a file I could print on the Avery Labels. The Labels were wrapped around pennies. Not beautiful, but without this fix, I never would have discovered that this is my favorite game. I sliced and diced, manipulated, and crashed my computer several times, but eventually I managed to create a PDF with a reasonable file size, so here it is.
2010-01-26
3 Chicago Rails
Updated my Chicago Rails file. I corrected all the spelling errors (at least all the ones my wife caught). I added two rivers (Fox and Des Plaines). I also added 20 event cards. Comments are welcome.
2009-11-16
3 SoloPlay_EmpireBuilder_v1.pdf
File contains the rules to be able to play a SoloPlay variant for Empire Builder. The game plays quickly, in about an 60-90 minutes. It will challenge the experienced Empire Builder player. All attempts have been made to give this variant a high level of variability in the play. For more solo game variants and a discussion about this game's design click the following link: ([url=http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/453130]Empire Builder SoloPlay Design[/url])
2009-10-16
10 Empire Builder Goods Reference Page from 2008 Edition Rule Book
Corrected vertical alignment. This is the goods reference page from the 2008 edition rule book. You can print it front and back and then cut down the middle to get 2 reference sheets per page.
2009-03-30
2 Master list of loads (by icon) used in all Crayon Rails games
Updated, added Martian rails, changes from new edition EuroRials
2007-09-26
3 Empire Builder 5th Ed Playsheet Source.xls
Excel sourcefile to the Playsheet PDF; with this, a player can use the values from the contracts in calculations on optimal routing, connections, and any other desired algorithms for advanced play.
2006-08-23
1 Empire Builder Playsheet 5th Ed.pdf
Compilation of demand cards organized by city. Each city is listed individually with production and demand cargoes; each demanded cargo is then referenced to the cities in which it is produced.
2006-08-03
7 EmpireBuilder_Aid.pdf
A very useful table listing cities producing each kind of good, goods produced by each city and geographic areas for locating cities on the board. It's an Acrobat (PDF) document.
2003-03-17
Statistics
Board Game Rank: 410
Num Ratings: 1390
Average Rating: 6.88
Standard Deviation: 1.48
Num Views: 78287
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Fans: 12
Personal Comments: 558
Users Owning: 1673
Users Wanting: 55
Users Trading: 76 [find trade matches]
Has Parts For Trade: 1
Want Parts In Trade: 4
Price History: View
Total Plays: 1951
Plays This Month: 5
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Year Pub. 1989
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