Free Ride Board Game

Around the end of the 19th century, a growing network of railway lines was built in Europe, allowing people to travel to the major cities to visit beautiful structures influenced by Art Nouveau and Historicism.

In Free Ride, you are one of several people in charge of building railway lines, connecting the cities in Europe, and carrying passengers to those cities. The game board shows 45 cities connected by a network of potential routes, and all railway lines built will be one of three types: lines owned by you, lines owned by fellow players, and state-owned lines. When you travel along railway lines, you pay nothing to travel on your lines and state-owned lines. To travel on a fellow player's line, however, you must pay them 1 coin, which converts their line to state-owned. From then on, traveling on that line is free for all players. As coins are limited, you should carefully balance the building of your lines with the conversion of fellow players' lines to state-owned lines.

Where do you want to build? At the start of play, each player drafts part of a travel route. Multiple travel routes are available for choosing, and each travel route consists of three cards. When you choose a route, you take either the first and second cards or the second and third cards as your starting and ending point (in that order). Return the unchosen card of that route to the box. Place your train on that starting location. On a turn, take one of three actions:

Once the third deck is empty, you can either withdraw from the game with uncompleted routes (returning those cards to the box) or keep taking turns until you finish all your routes, at which point you immediately gain 1 coin and withdraw. In either situation, you earn 1 coin (and do nothing else) on each subsequent turn. Once all players have withdrawn, you tally your score, earning 3 points for each coin, 5 points for the first card you have of a city, and 2 points for each other card you have of a city. (Each of the 45 cities appears once in each of the three decks.) Whoever has the most points wins.

Free Ride also offers a difficult solo challenge!

Product Specifications

• Gasta hasta 2 puntos de construcción para colocar 1 o 2 rieles de tu suministro personal en el tablero en espacios vacíos, opcionalmente gasta 1 moneda para comprar cinco rieles más del suministro antes de hacerlo. Construir los rieles cuesta 1 o 2 puntos de construcción. Debes terminar una línea entre ciudades antes de comenzar una nueva.
• Viaja sobre los rieles, moviendo tu tren de una ciudad a otra sobre líneas ferroviarias completas (pagando a un oponente si es necesario) hasta dos veces. Si llegas o pasas por encima de la ciudad de destino de tu ruta de viaje, colocas las dos cartas de esa ruta boca abajo frente a ti. Luego podrá reclamar una nueva ruta de viaje, pero solo si su tren se encuentra en la ciudad de inicio elegida para esa ruta o pasa por ella. Cuando las cartas de ciudad comiencen a extraerse del segundo mazo de 45 cartas, ahora podrás tener dos rutas en marcha; Cuando se empiezan a robar cartas de ciudad del tercer mazo, puedes moverte de una ciudad a otra hasta tres veces por turno.
• Si tienes 0 o 1 carriles, puedes coger 5 carriles del suministro sin coste alguno.