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Cable Car
Board Prototype at Córdoba 2009
End of the game: The Powerstation. (prototype at Córdoba 2009)
Presentation at Spiel 09 in Essen.
Closeup of a green cable car
Front Cover, English, International Edition
End of our first game using Cable Car Company.
Cable Car gameboard
Insert

Cable Car (2009)

Players
2–6
Best: 4
Playing time
30–45 min
Age
8+
6.67
Average rating
1,339
Ratings
1.80/5
Weight
#3785
BGG rank
Top 5,000
Alternate names:San Francisco Cable Car
Designer:Dirk Henn
Artist:Michael Menzel
Publisher:Piatnik +2 more
Average rating, ratings count, weight and rank are sourced from BoardGameGeek (BGG).
Game DNA
  • This game: Strategy 9, Luck 4, Interaction 5, Complexity 3.6, Theme 5
Strategy9.0
Luck4.0
Interaction5.0
Complexity3.6
Theme5.0

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

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Overview

Cable Car is a reworked rerelease of the game originally published in 1997 by db-Spiele as Iron Horse and in 2000 by Queen Games as Metro, with a different theme, new artwork and the components and rules to play the new, optional variant "Cable Car Company," which introduces stock holding to the game.

Players place square tiles onto the board to form rail lines. The object of the game is to make the rail lines as long as possible. Players start with a number of cars ringing the board. When a tile placement connects a car to a station (either to those on the edge or to the power station in the center of the board), that car is turned to indicate it has been scored and the player scores one point for each tile that the route crosses. (Slightly reworded for clarity and consistency from Queen Games' announcement of the game.)

Re-implements:

Metro

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