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Information
Designer
Artist
Publisher
Year Published
1999
# of Players
2 − 4
User Suggested # of Players
Best with 4 players
Recommended with 2, 3, 4 players
(20 voters) [poll]
Playing Time
60 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages
12 and up
User Suggested Ages
12 and up
(5 voters) [poll]
Language Dependence
No necessary in-game text
(8 voters) [poll]
Honors
Subdomain
(19 voters) [vote]
Category
Mechanic
Expansion
Expands
Family
Primary Name
Stephensons Rocket
Alternate Names
Great American Railroad
Stephenson's 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 Chinese Railway Game

New revised and re-developed edition called The Great Chinese Railway Game will be released by Wargames Club Publishing Co. Ltd in 2010.

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A Knizia-approved rules FAQ can be found here.

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Stephensons Rocket
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Dutch edition
Publisher: 999 Games
Artist: Doris Matthäus
Year: 1999
Product Code: 999-ROC01
Size: Medium Square (e.g. Ticket to Ride)
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Pegasus Spiele German Version
Publisher: Pegasus Spiele
Artist: Doris Matthäus
Year: 1999
Product Code: 51500G
Size: Medium Square (e.g. Ticket to Ride)
3.00 pounds
German
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Rio Grande English edition
Publisher: Rio Grande Games
Artist: Doris Matthäus
Year: 1999
Size: Medium Square (e.g. Ticket to Ride)
3.03 pounds
English
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0 Ayuda del jugador en Español, resumen turno y resumen del juego.
Ayuda del jugador en Español, con todas las acciones que puede realizar, asi como un resumen del juego y del turno.
2012-02-08
0 Reglas maquetadas en Español
Traducción maquetada de las reglas en Español, para imprimir en libreto.
2012-02-08
0 Traduction de la faq (avec d'autres questions)
A French translation of Chris Lawson's faq (with a few questions more).
2010-10-22
6 Stephensons Rocket Tuckboxes with artwork. Not for sleeved Cards.
Stephensons Rocket Tuckboxes with artwork. Not for sleeved Cards.
2008-12-11
19 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
19 PaperAndPencil_Stephensons_Rocket_v1.pdf
An upgraded paper & pencil travel version of Stephensons Rocket. Inspired by Thedalek.
2007-08-21
50 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
19 Stephensons-Rocket-Rules.html
English Rules (Translation by Jay Tummelson) nicely formatted
2006-06-15
21 Paper_Stephenson's_Rocket.pdf
Pencil & Paper Stephenson's Rocket!
2005-12-22
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Average Rating: 6.93
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