Train Trek

In Train Trek, players experience travel by placing landscape cards each turn. The tracks accumulate into a path for plenty of scoring options. Enjoy this relaxing and carefree game with friends and family, or play it solo. Train Trek is all about that travel vibe and can be enjoyed at home, abroad, at the pub, a restaurant, even on a train!

Players lay a card then decide how to best score it. Should it cover up part of another card, be placed adjacent, maybe turn it upside down to continue a really good track, or even tuck part of it underneath another card. The challenge with finding the perfect placement depend a lot more on what your longer goals may be.

Most scoring options require the connection of two Stations, but each of the four score sheets has a different track scoring. Connect two of the preferred landscape and you’re on your way to using your special power to move any one card that doesn’t have any other card on top of it. This tricky bit of strategy is going to keep your opponents guessing as you place it in just the right spot for those extra big points!

Let’s take a ride on this Train Trek!

Each turn the player will play 1 card from their hand or the face up card in the offer. The placed card can be played partly under another card or two, partly over a card or two, or even next to other cards. Players are encouraged to continue the track, but this is not necessary.

After the card is placed, the player will assess the path they formed with the tracks on the card to another card or more cards that continue the path. In the event of two stations being connected on this path, the player will be able to score in any area of the player sheet as long as they meet the criteria. Or they can ignore the stations and aim for the path to connect multiple landscapes of the same type. Doing so will start to fill a track which allows the player to move a "top" card. Top cards are cards that do not have another card over them. The player can move a Top card to another spot on the landscape of cards to create another scoring opportunity for themselves.

Players will find plenty of strategy with placing cards and then moving cards to create those scoring paths. There are cards for multiple player counts. In solo play the player will use 18 cards, in two player there are 27 cards that are used giving each player 13 turns. In 3 player there are 36 cards and for4 players 45 cards. No two cards are the same allowing for plenty of variation. Players may which to use the starting card and then shuffle the rest of the cards to form a different deck depending on their player count.