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Designed By	James Hlavaty Thomas Lehmann
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Published By	TimJim Games
Year Published	1995
# of Players:	3 − 6
User Suggested # of Players	Best with 4 players Recommended with 3, 4, 5 players (5 voters) [poll]
Playing Time	360 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages	14 and up
User Suggested Ages	(no votes yet) [poll]
Language Dependence	Some necessary text - easily memorized or small crib sheet (2 voters) [poll]
Category	Science Fiction Transportation
Mechanic	Auction/Bidding Pick-up and Deliver Route/Network Building Stock Holding Show More »
Primary Name	2038
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Families	18xx

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2038 is a space mining adaptation of the 18xx series of games. First, you have the ever important stock trading rounds followed by operating rounds where you try to deliver commodities mined from the asteroid belt.

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New	€37.00	28-Jun-2009
Like New	$25.00	22-Jun-2009
New	$32.00	16-May-2009
New	$20.00	21-Jan-2009
New	$29.98	13-Nov-2008
New	$29.00	19-Feb-2008
New	$60.00	3-Jan-2006

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17	Reviews Finally, reviewing my favorite 18XX game	2009-06-16	GreyLord	6
0	General Question about components	2009-04-24	opks22	1
2	Reviews Tao of Gaming Review	2008-11-22	Bankler	3
0	General First Game, seemed to end early	2008-08-10	sgraber	0
0	Rules Growth Corporation Base Clarification	2008-08-10	sgraber	1
0	General Optimal Number of players	2008-03-27	Roja	5
1	General CyberBoard module now available	2007-12-26	hodji	1
0	Rules German Translation of rules available ?	2007-12-12	Juergen S...	1
0	Rules Selling TSI shares during Initial Auction	2007-10-10	hodji	5
0	Rules furthur questions about TP	2007-07-20	zzzz	2

	Recommendations

Strong Recommendations
1835	1830: The Game of Railroads and Robber Barons	Time Agent

Standard Recommendations
Ur: 1830 BC	1861: The Railroads of the Russian Empire	1870	Outpost
1826	18EU	1853	1829
Suzerain	Merchant of Venus	1860: Railways on the Isle of Wight	Fast Food Franchise
1856	1846	18VA	Silverton

Weak Recommendations
1854	Tyranno Ex	Indonesia	Age of Exploration
Medieval Merchant	Iron Dragon	Age of Renaissance	Air Baron

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2038 CyberBoard module

2038 Game Box and 3-6 player Scenario files.

hodji

2007-12-26

6 Player Game Tips.doc

Some basic auction/play advice for newbies in six player game

hodji

2007-01-31

Expected Gains Handout.doc

Handout showing expected gains for independents at start of game

hodji

2007-01-31

Expected Gains.xls

Spreadsheet for computing expected gains for independents in OR1+OR2

hodji

2007-01-31

2038Errata.txt

2038 Errata and Rule Clarifications

bucklen_uk

2005-02-04

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397	Derk's Decree - Cutting Your Collection to 26 Games	2009-01-13
294	The Day the Geek Ended!	2008-11-13
196	Let's play a game!	2008-04-07
140	Out of 200,000 Geeks, What Number are You? - A Celebratory GeekList.	2008-07-30
126	Why 18xx is so great and why 18xx also really sucks	2009-03-27
109		2007-01-11
97	Definitive 18xx list	2006-01-17
71	Chris' List of 18XX games	2003-04-18
67	The M'aider Math Trade	2009-04-29
66	18xx games - brief summaries of the game and ratings by numbers of players	2009-07-02

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User Rank:	976
Num Ratings:	194
Average Rating:	6.94
Standard Deviation:	1.40
Num Views:	24594
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Avg. Game Weight:	3.8
Fans:	0

Personal Comments:	82
Users Owning:	425
Users Wanting:	32
Users Trading:	37
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Total Plays:	124
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The 18xx Rules Difference List (a comparision of 18xx rules)

http://www.fwtwr.com/18xx/rules_difference_list/in...

2006-10-17

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