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Miniatures from 2nd Edition (now on kickstarter)  - games will include 20 miniatures (4 each in 5 player colors).
A game of Snowdonia at Boston's largest train station, South Station.  (Many thanks to South Station management for letting us play there!)
My very cold wife agreed to hold a board game box on the top of a certain mountain in Wales. On our honeymoon. 
She's a keeper.
Snowdonia men at work.
Overview during gameplay, Essen 2012
Kings Under the Mountain
Custom playing figures - birthday present from my Dad!
Snowdonia prototype during a recent polishing playtest!
Snowdonia, Surprised Stare Games/Lookout Games/uplay.it edizioni, 2012
Snowdonia player pawns: Labourers & Surveyors, hand-painted miniatures in yellow and blue

Snowdonia (2012)

Players
1–5
Best: 4
Playing time
30–90 min
Age
10+
7.30
Average rating
5,168
Ratings
2.99/5
Weight
#872
BGG rank
Top 1,000
Alternate names:Mountain Railways
Designer:Tony Boydell
Artist:Tony Boydell, Klemens Franz, Charlie Paull
Publisher:Lookout Games +4 more
Average rating, ratings count, weight and rank are sourced from BoardGameGeek (BGG).
Game DNA
  • This game: Strategy 7, Luck 4, Interaction 5, Complexity 6, Theme 5
Strategy7.0
Luck4.0
Interaction5.0
Complexity6.0
Theme5.0

This game's strategy, luck, interaction, complexity and theme.

TrainsHand ManagementOpen DraftingWorker PlacementTurn Order: Claim ActionEvents

Overview

The peaks of Snowdonia rise before you, encased in mist, their summits barely visible. The highest is Snowdon (Wyddfa) herself at 1,085 metres. The year is 1894, and the Snowdon Mountain Tramroad and Hotels Company Limited has been formed to build a branch line from Llanberis to the summit. You can scarcely believe it's possible!

In Snowdonia, players represent work gangs providing labour for the construction of the Snowdon Mountain Railway. Unlike other train games you will have to excavate your way up a mountain side, as well as make and lay the track, construct viaducts and stations. All this in competition with the weather of the Welsh mountains (and the game itself)!

You may be assisted by a train (though that's not always best) and you'll be able to collect essential materials from the Stock Yard. You will obtain special work contracts that give you bonuses.

Can you contribute more than the other players to the magnificence of the Snowdon Mountain Railway?

Expansions

Snowdonia: Essen 2012 Promo Cards
Snowdonia: Jungfraubahn & Mount Washington
Snowdonia: Lost Train Promo Card
Snowdonia: Bayerische Zugspitzbahn
Snowdonia: Britannia Bridge
Snowdonia: The Daffodil Line
Snowdonia: Erweiterung
Snowdonia: The Necropolis Line & Neuhauser Bockerlbahn
Snowdonia: Pen-y-Gwryd Hotel
Snowdonia: Card 31 of 30
Snowdonia: Trans-Australian Railway & The Daffodil Line
Brettspiel Easter Basket 2016
Snowdonia: Wagons Expansion
Snowdonia: Seasons
Snowdonia: The Battlepuppy Express
Snowdonia: Mrs Larkin's Washing Machine
Snowdonia: The Lord Mayor's State Coach
Snowdonia: Puffing Billy
Snowdonia: Rolling Stock #1
Snowdonia: Supply Wagon/Cannon
Brettspiel Adventskalender 2017
Snowdonia: The North Pole & The Great Bridge Scrapyard Promo Tile
Snowdonia: The Siege of Petersburg / The Channel Tunnel 1881
Snowdonia: Candace Camille
Snowdonia: Tsavo Lions Promo Card
Snowdonia: Share and Share Alike / 18XX Train
Snowdonia: Upgrade Pack
Snowdonia: Time-travelling Police Box
Snowdonia: Grand Tour
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