#92: Union Pacific (Mark's 100 - 2012)

Union Pacific

Mark's Ranking

• 2012: 92nd
• 2010: 78th
• 2005: 13th
• appeared on all three lists

BoardGameGeek

• rank: 156
• rating: 7.63

Print Status

• OOP - but available in a new version, Airlines: Europe

Why It's On The List

• Alan Moon took the design work he'd put into Airlines (his homage to Sid Sackson's Acquire) and fleshed it out into a beautiful & playable stock market/push your luck game about building rail lines across the United States.

Tips & Tricks:

• There are some helpful rules clarifications that smooth out the (very) few rough spots in the game - dealing with useless track cards & how you obtain shares of Union Pacific. You can check out the blog posts I reference below.

Extras

• I have not yet had the opportunity to play Airlines: Europe - I hope to do so in the next month or so.
• Here's the posts I wrote for The One Hundred & my Top 100 in 2005.
• I took information about Union Pacific that was originally posted on my now defunct website & put it on my blog - there are three posts worth: Rules & Variants, Union Pacific: Strategery, and Dave Arnott & Winton L.'s 2 player variant.