Night Express: Railway Strategy Game Online
Pick a country, claim rail lines, and connect your secret routes.
2 to 5 players. About 45 minutes. Strategy.
How to play
- The host picks the map: USA, UK, India, China or Australia. Everyone starts with four carriage cards and keeps at least two of four secret routes. Each route names two cities.
- A random player goes first. On your turn, do one thing. Draw two cards, from the five face up or the deck. A face-up Locomotive is wild and counts as both cards. Or claim a line: pay cards of its colour equal to its length. Grey lines take any one colour.
- Longer lines score more. Express lines cross mountains, sea or desert and pay 2 more, but only while the Signal is green. It is green for two rounds, then red for one.
- Instead of a move you can draw three more routes and keep at least one, or build a Junction to borrow one rival line at a city. Unused Junctions pay 4 at the end.
- When someone ends a turn with two or fewer carriages, everyone, that player too, gets one final turn. Connected routes add their points, unconnected ones take them away, and the longest continuous line wins 10.
Open a room for Night Express. No app, no accounts, free to host.