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Art By
Published By
Year Published
1999
# of Players:
2 − 4
User Suggested # of Players
Best with 4 players
Recommended with 2, 3, 4 players
(16 voters) [poll]
Playing Time
60 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages
12 and up
User Suggested Ages
12 and up
(3 voters) [poll]
Language Dependence
No necessary in-game text
(3 voters) [poll]
Category
Mechanic
Primary Name
Stephenson's Rocket
Alternate Names
Great American Railroad
Stephensons Rocket
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Reiner Knizia expands his fleet of tile laying games with this game about colliding railroads in early 1800's England. There are seven different rail companies that players can expand. Each time you extend a rail, the other stockholders can veto your action, but it might cost them their shares. When two companies' rail touch, the railways merge to become one. The game is over when only one company remains or there are no rail tiles remaining, and the winner is the player who earned the most money over the course of the game.

In 2000, Stephenson's Rocket was an International Gamers Award nominee for Best General Strategy Game in the Multi-player category.

Being re-Developed as The Great American Railroad Game (in limbo)

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1 Stephensons Rocket Tuckboxes with artwork. Not for sleeved Cards.
Stephensons Rocket Tuckboxes with artwork. Not for sleeved Cards.
2008-12-11
4 Stephensons Rocket: Play Aid
Brief A5 play aid. Formatted as a pair to print side by side on A4 sheet. The print is quite close to the edge in places, but most inkjet printers should be able to handle this. It is an RTF file, so you can edit it with MS Word, OpenOffice, or others, and change it to just how you want.
2008-03-08
7 English translation of Rody's 2 Player Variant
English translation of Rody's 2 Player Variant. Original French version can be found at http://jeux2rody.free.fr/doc/stephenson-variante.pdf
2008-02-20
3 PaperAndPencil_Stephensons_Rocket_v1.pdf
An upgraded paper & pencil travel version of Stephensons Rocket. Inspired by Thedalek.
2007-08-21
13 stephensons-rocket-original-english-rules.pdf
Original english rules with permission of Rio Grande Games (Jay Tummelson)
2007-07-30
0 OverzichtVanafBord.jpg
Scan of overview from the Dutch board
2006-10-04
7 Stephensons-Rocket-Rules.html
English Rules (Translation by Jay Tummelson) nicely formatted
2006-06-15
7 Paper_Stephenson's_Rocket.pdf
Pencil & Paper Stephenson's Rocket!
2005-12-22
0 Stephensons_rocket_cz.html
Rules in czech.
2005-11-19
0 player_aid_A4_NL.doc
1-page rules and scoring summary in dutch
2005-10-08
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