Rating: 7.1 Good
Popularity:7
Difficulty:Easy
Year:1999
Players: 2-6 players
Playing time: 90 minutes
Age:12+

Created by: Alan R. Moon, Franz Vohwinkel

Published by: 999 Games, AMIGO Spiel + Freizeit GmbH, Rio Grande Games

Description:

Union Pacific is a train-themed stock market game. On each turn, players must choose between expanding a company to increase its value and adding a share of stock to their hand, or playing stock onto the table from their hand to increase their ownership of one or two companies.

There are four semi-random scoring events, in which the first and second place share holder in each company are paid dividends. Only stock that has been previously played onto the table is considered during the scoring rounds. Union Pacific is a special company whose shares are claimed according to special rules. Union Pacific is not represented on the board but instead pays dividends to all share holders according to a fixed progression chart.

Money is only used to track victory conditions and cannot be spent during the game. The winner is the player with the most money at the end of the game.

Prices:
Retail Price:$0
Awards:
International Gamers Awards - General Strategy; Multi-player Nominee 2000
Spiel des Jahres Nominee 1999
Meeples' Choice Award 1999
Essener Feder Best Written Rules Winner 1999
Deutscher Spiele Preis Best Family/Adult Game 3rd Place 1999


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