Rivers, Roads & Rails
1969 • 2-10 Players • Age 5+
Who is this game suitable for?
Suitable for ages 5 and up. You can play with 2 to 10 players.
For the pros among you, the following mechanics can be decisive: Tile Placement...
Game Data
- Average time to play
- 30 Minutes
- Minimum age
- 5+
- Number of players
- 2 - 10
- Publisher
- (Unknown), Alga, Discovery Toys, Galt Toys, Otto Maier Verlag, Ravensburger
- Designers
- Ken Garland and Associates, Josef Löflath
- Artists
- Josef Löflath
- Mechanics
- Tile Placement
This matching game is a close relative of Dominoes. Each tile has two sides, and each side contains at most one road, one river, and one rail. You can only play a new tile adjacent to a played tile if the sides match. The act of playing tiles creates a map of an intricate twisting transportation network. The tile illustrations are very pleasing to both young and old alike. Only two of the tiles are branching, so the game is mostly played at both ends of the tiles already laid down.
Several variants are supplied in the rules. You can play this game competitively like Dominoes, or cooperatively like a free-form jigsaw puzzle.
First published in 1969 by James Galt and Company, Limited, Cheadle/Cheshire.
Then in 1970 as 'Connect' (in Dutch, French and German as 'Contact') by Ravensburger.
Re-released 1984 by Ravensburger as 'Rivers, Roads and Rails' (in Europe still as 'Contact').
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