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Texas & Pacific set up for play. The game features ranching, which works like development in reverse: the game starts with brown cubes placed on ranches. A player may take a brown ranch cube from the board as an action (and keep it).

Re-draw of the map. I drew the scribbly cows. And I found the herald for the GHH, which is nice in a RR game.

My complete redesign of the Texas & Pacific board.

Texas & Pacific (2010)

Players

2–6

Best: 3, 4

Playing time

60–60 min

Age

6.93

Average rating

257

Ratings

2.79/5

Weight

#7910

BGG rank

Outside top 5,000

Designer:John Bohrer

Artist:Todd Sanders

Publisher:Rio Grande Games +1 more

Average rating, ratings count, weight and rank are sourced from BoardGameGeek (BGG).

Game DNA

Strategy9.0

Luck3.0

Interaction7.0

Complexity5.6

Theme5.0

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

EconomicTrainsAmerican WestStock HoldingAuction / BiddingHexagon GridNetwork and Route BuildingVictory Points as a ResourceIncome

Overview

The train depot is a noisy place, with cowboys shouting and cows mooing as they are loaded onto the stock cars of the cattle train. While the steam locomotive hisses as it is refilled with water from the spout, smiling ranch owners think of the riches they will receive once the train reaches Chicago. Some of them were smart enough to buy shares in the railroad, which finally reached the town this spring. Business is booming!

In Texas & Pacific, 2-6 players represent wealthy investors and ranchers in the 19th-century U.S. Midwest and Texas. Players buy stock certificates from the major railroads of the era. They compete to earn the most money during the game by carefully timing dividend payments and expanding the railroads across the plains. Stock pays dividends, but has no value in the final scoring. At the end of the game, the player with the most money wins.