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Art By
Published By
Year Published
1997
# of Players:
2 − 6
User Suggested # of Players
(Not best with any number)
Recommended with 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 players
(30 voters) [poll]
Playing Time
45 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages
8 and up
User Suggested Ages
8 and up
(8 voters) [poll]
Language Dependence
No necessary in-game text
(16 voters) [poll]
Category
Mechanic
Primary Name
Metro
Alternate Names
Iron Horse
Expanded By
Families
Description Edit | History

Similar to Streetcar, Tsuro, Tantrix and Spaghetti Junction, this game has players putting square tiles onto the board to form rail lines. The major difference in this game, however, is that players are not striving to make short, direct routes like those sought in Streetcar. Instead, the object of the game is to make the rail lines as long as possible. Players start with a number of trains ringing the board. Whenever a tile placement connects a train to a station (either on the edge or the center of the board), that train is removed and the player scores one point for each tile that the route crosses, which can cause one tile to score multiple times if the track loops around. However, players score double for city connections, which are the stations in the center of the board.

The game was originally issued as Iron Horse (not to be confused with Iron Horse).

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New £19.99 22-Apr-2009 flag
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2 Metro RO
Reguli in limba Romana. http://www.boardgames.ro
2008-02-07
2 Metro
Freeware version to play against the computer or hot-seat games
2008-01-14
5 Metro Tuckbox.pdf
Metro Tuckbox for Track Tiles with artwork. Fits Queen Games version.
2006-06-26
0 Metro ( Reglas de juego ).doc
Spanish rules ( REGLAS de juego )
2004-07-09
3 MetroRules.doc
English translation of German rules
2004-07-09
5 Metro_Small_Format.pdf
Metro Rules in Small Format - .pdf
2002-05-12
1 MetroRules.txt
Rules of Iron Horse, Modified to better fit Metro
2002-02-01
Statistics
Board Game Rank: 697
Num Ratings: 2628
Average Rating: 6.43
Standard Deviation: 1.27
Num Views: 78028
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Avg. Game Weight: 1.7 moreinfo
Fans: 3
Personal Comments: 981
Users Owning: 2392
Users Wanting: 69
Users Trading: 104
Has Parts For Trade: 0
Want Parts In Trade: 1
Price History: View
Total Plays: 4988
Plays This Month: 10
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