Game Daze Park Place Mall Assistant Mgr. Recommendation, June 2011

Ben -

“All Aboard!!!” Load up your trains with passengers and cars for the best combinations, but watch out because your opponents can use them too.

Station Master is a fun little card game of loading trains for 2 – 6 players, ages 10 and up, but in my opinion even 8 year olds could handle it. Okay, here are the basics: the object of the game is to amass the most points, which is done by adding cars and loading your passengers onto trains. The passengers have a value, which gets multiplied by the values of the added cars.

More specifically, there are two decks, Engines and Station Master. A number of Engine cards will be turned face up equal to the number of players. Each Engine will have a number on it, which is the carrying capacity for the train for both cars and passengers. Each player will maintain a hand of three Station Master cards. These cards are mostly the cars that can be added to the train, with a positive or negative value. There are also some specialty cards, which do things like move cars or passengers between trains. Each player has six Passenger tokens, three valued at 1, two at 2, and one at 3.

Players take turns either placing a Passenger on an Engine or playing a Station Master card to the end of a train. When a train cannot hold any more cars, it leaves the station. At that point the cars are added up, and the total is multiplied by the value of each player’s passengers on the Engine. A new engine then rolls into the station. The game is over when the last train is all loaded up and the station is empty. The Station Master with the most points wins!