Milky Way Express (2011)

Milky Way Express is a Free Print-and-Play space trading and exploration game.

The players start the game with a credit of $10 and their main goal will be to earn enough money throughout the game to pay back the loan when the game ends.

The players take turns moving their Spaceship on cards laid out as a chart of the Milky Way Galaxy, discovering new Planets, trading, smuggling, fighting Pirates and trying to avoid Bankruptcy.

The game ends when the last corner of the Galaxy has been explored, or when a player runs out of money.

This game is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License - that means you can use and modify the game for free, but you can't sell it or claim it as your own.

Game Summary
You start the game with a credit of $10 and your aim is to earn enough money throughout the game to pay back this loan when the game ends.
You will take turns moving your Spaceship on cards laid out as a chart of the Milky Way Galaxy, discovering new Planets as you go. You will throw dice to determine what goods will be on offer at each planet. Available goods will vary from turn to turn, so buy low and sell high while the market is friendly to you. But if luck abandons you, you may be driven to Bankruptcy by greedy Pirates and zealous Customs controls (if you dare to smuggle any illegal goods).
The game ends when you turn over the last unexplored card on the Galactic Chart, or when you run out of money.

Components

• 1 normal six-sided die
• 1 six-coloured die (red, blue, yellow, black, white x2)
• 30 coin tokens
• 10 yellow cubes (food)
• 10 blue cubes (water)
• 10 red cubes (medical supplies)
• 10 white cubes (empty market)
• 6 black cubes (illegal goods)
• 4 grey cubes (markers for Spaceship card)
• 6 Planet cards
• 3 Pirate Planet cards
• 12 Empty Space cards
• 4 Wormhole cards
• 2 Spaceship card
• 2 Spaceship token

All the cards, the Spaceship tokens and the illustrated rulebook for the game can be found in the files section below.