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Empire Builder (1980)

Average Rating: 6.93/10
Board Game Rank: 502
Strategy Game Rank: 321
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Artist
Publisher
Year Published
1980
# of Players
2 − 6
User Suggested # of Players
Best with 3 players
Recommended with 2, 3, 4 players
(29 voters) [poll]
Playing Time
180 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages
12 and up
User Suggested Ages
10 and up
(8 voters) [poll]
Language Dependence
Some necessary text - easily memorized or small crib sheet
(7 voters) [poll]
Honors
Subdomain
(21 voters) [vote]
Category
Mechanic
Expansion
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Primary Name
Empire Builder
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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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Empire Builder
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English Revised Fifth edition
Publisher: Mayfair Games
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Year: 2008
Product Code: 4500
Size:  
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English Third Edition w/ 'New Edition Now Contains Mexico'
Publisher: Mayfair Games
Artist: Peter Y. Bromley, Jim Clouse, Louis Rexing, Mike Russo, Chris Vande Voortmore»
Year: 1999
Product Code: 450
Size: 11.00 x 9.00 x 2.00 inches
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English Third Edition
Publisher: Mayfair Games
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Year: 1996
Product Code: 450
Size: 11.60 x 9.40 x 2.00 inches
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Mayfair English edition
Publisher: Mayfair Games
Artist: Jim Clouse
Year: 1984
Product Code: 5030
Size: 11.25 x 9.20 x 1.20 inches
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Mayfair games English edition Grey Box
Publisher: Mayfair Games
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Product Code: 450
Size: 11.50 x 9.50 x 2.30 inches
0.98 pounds
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1 Empire Builder location map
Empire Builder player aid for locating cities and towns more easily.
2012-02-03
4 Empire Builder goods locator (map)
Empire Builder player aid for locating goods quickly.
2012-02-03
9 Empire Builder Player Aid
Empire Builder Payer Aid: Contains the following information Building Cost, The Start, The Finish, Available Loads and Cities. Created and published with permission of Mayfair Games, Inc., Skokie, IL USA. Copyright (http://www.mayfairgames.com/)
2010-11-22
6 Teaching Guide for Crayon Rails from The How to Play Podcast
Black and White version of the original teaching guide.
2010-10-10
8 South American Rails Cards
These are the demand cards and load tokens for the South American Rails game.
2010-04-13
7 South American Rails Map
This is the map for my South American Rails game.
2010-04-13
10 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
12 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
8 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
11 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
Statistics
Board Game Rank: 502
Strategy Game Rank: 321
Num Ratings: 1799
Average Rating: 6.93
Standard Deviation: 1.47
Num Views: 129699
GeekBuddy Analysis: Analyze
Similarly Rated: View
Avg. Game Weight: 2.6
Fans: 37
Personal Comments: 696
Users Owning: 2353
Users Wanting: 80
Users Trading: 120 [find trade matches]
Has Parts For Trade: 1
Want Parts In Trade: 5
Price History: View
Total Plays: 3439
Plays This Month: 24
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