Zug (2009)

A new and simply strategic game designed and developed in Argentine on November 2009. Players must install sugar factories and sell their sugar production in the cities. To reach this goal, players must install a system of railroads, in order to connect factories and cities together.

The game contains 90 tiles, 75 pieces of plastic in five colors, a table-counter and a rulebook. The tiles represents a landscape with a segment of railroad; some of them also contains sugar factories, train stations, locomotives and cities.

Each player takes their 15 pieces of the same color, and the tiles are shuffled and placed face down on the table. To begin the game, one specific tile is placed faced-up on the center of the table. Once per turn, the players must take one tile and place it adjacent to the just-placed tiles, in order to continue the existing railroads or to create new railroads. Every time a player places a tile with a sugar factory, a train station or a locomotive, the player put a piece on it. A train station determines the end of a railroad. A railroad with train stations in both ends is enabled for the train circulation. Players must install cities adjacent to the train stations; that allow in the next stage, the movement of the sugar production from factories into the cities. There is no limitation in the number of factories, or cities being installed; railroads have no owner, every player can use it. Cities can be so big or so numerous as the players decided. When all the tiles have been placed, the second stage of the game begins – the sugar selling. Once per turn, players must move the pieces placed on the factories into the cities, using for it the enabled railroads. A piece placed un a city’ tile, cannot be occupied by another piece. Not every pieces could be moved into the cities: some of them would be placed in not-enabled railroads, in other cases a enabled railroad could have more sugar factories than cities. That’s why players must apply strategy in the game. The player that gains more points with the selling of sugar and the possession of train stations wins.