= An Introduction to the “18xx” railroad games =
If you are a serious game player, you may have heard of the 18xx railroad games such as 1830, 1870, or 1825, but you probably have not played one. I really enjoy them and I’d like to give you a short introduction to them.
In these games, the players invest in railroad companies. The player with the most shares in a company runs that company as president. They can choose to build tracks, buy trains, run those trains for revenue and decide to pay that revenue to the stakeholders or keep it in the company. The company stock goes up when the company pays out and down when it doesn’t. In some games, the stock also goes down when shares are sold. The winner is the one who finishes with the most assets (stocks + cash). The only luck in the game is in selecting the starting player.
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