Empire Builder by Mayfair Games – Boardgame Review

Raise your hand if you like playing and drawing with crayons! Of course, you do we all do. Now you can do so in a boardgame.

EMPIRE BUILDER is game of planning and constructing(drawing) a rail network across the USA! It is a game about picking up commodities found all over the map in cities and delivering them to other cities for a cash payout based on cards you draw from the large deck of delivery cards. When you do this you get more cash to build (draw) more rail lines and increase your network to cities and increase your chance to make mo’ money…

Will you build a network to deliver Sugar imports from San Francisco to Detroit for BIG BUCKS if you have that card in your hand – or will you spend a little to deliver the corn from Des Moines to Chicago on track you have already built?

This game for 2 to 6 players is great fun and can also teach you the geography and location of cities within the country. The game has many editions of different parts of the world. EURORAILS covers the entire continent of Europe. There are many for covering countries all over the world.

Have fun building rail networks all over the world and learn a little bit on the side!