TransAmerica (board game)
German Games Award 2002: 2nd place Game of the Year 2002: Nominations List Game of the Year 2002: Games Hit ( family games) Swiss Family Games Games Award 2002: 3rd place Mensa Select 2003 Dutch Games Award 2003: Nominated Gamers Choice Award 2003: Multiplayer Nominees
Game of the Year 2005 ( Trans- Europe)
Transamerica is a board game of Games author Franz- Benno Delonge for 2-6 players, ages eight years. It deals with the subject of railways. The game was released in 2002 by Winning Moves.
Two to six players build up a map of the USA on a railway network. At the beginning of the game each player is dealt 5 cards and cities must until the end of the round these specified cities together. Unlike many other train games where players are build on a common network. Players place in turn one or two rail parts on the preprinted rail network. If the first player has connected all the cities connected to the grid, the round ends. The other players lose for each rail section that is still needed to connect your cities lack them, a point ( beginning of 13). The game continues until one player has no more points. The player with the most points wins remaining.
Even as a browser game can be played Transamerica.
The game was nominated for 2002 Game of the Year. In the same year it won the second place in the German game prize. One reason for the award was the simple rule of the game: The game board shows a map of the United States of America (excluding Alaska and Hawaii), are registered on the selected large cities. These cities are available in five color-coded regions divided (eg, the cities on the West Coast Green, the American South, etc. red ) and with a triangular grid. There is a playing card whose back bears the color of the city to any city.
Each player now receives from each group ( region ) A card with a city and you have to try, starting from its launch stone which he can place on a node of the grid as desired to build a "network " that reaches all five boroughs. To this end, he puts little wooden sticks as rails on the network; alternately, each player can place a maximum of two in a train.
After each player has to connect all five regions, the networks are growing together quickly, and you can already established ways of the enemy to share and expand.
Who has bound the first all his cities, and win the game through. The opponents get minus point for their lack of railways.
Trans Europe
In 2005, a variant of Transamerica appeared under the name Trans Europe, the Schedule shows a stylized map of Europe. The gameplay remains the same. Trans Europe received the 2005 Austrian price game of games.