Blue Orange | Next Station - London | Board Game | Ages 8+ | 1-4 Players | 25 Minutes Playing Time

Product Information

Next Station: London borrows some of the same concepts from a game called Let’s Make a Bus Route (released in the US as Get on Board, a Japanese production where all players have to react to the same flipped card to make a bus route in their color around a shared map of Tokyo. Create an Underground network where each of the nine stations in the center city district has at least one line connected to it.

Scoring is interesting. Sprawl is rewarded well in Next Station: London. You are encouraged to draw a network as wide as possible within each color, as well as finding ways to connect multiple sections in one of the 13 sections used for scoring. You’ll also score bonus points for hitting tourist destinations on your line, as well as creating stations that have multiple colors running through them. So yes, it looks great. It is very light. And I think it’s brilliant! Honestly, this could have any theme attached to it: other cities, D&D lore, Firefly universe, literally anything. Obviously certain IPs would be more successful than others, but there is a really awesome game going on beneath any given theme that tons of people will love, I’m sure.

Key Facts

The other option for the card is to create an additional branch for your Underground line. When this card is revealed you can choose to draw a new section from any of the stations in your current Underground line (the station does not need to be at either end). To draw the section you must follow all of the other rules regarding construction. Since a Railroad Switch card was drawn, the player can choose to draw a line from the purple Departure station to the circle station that the pencil is pointing to. Score Points For Your Underground Line You may not draw two sections that use the same route between two stations. This player would like to draw a line from the Central Station (station with ?) to the square station that the pencil is pointing towards. They couldn’t draw this line though as there is already a purple line on the connection between these two stations. Special Stations Weeks before the pandemic hit, I was plotting a course to visit the UK with London as a central destination. And while I’ve not had the opportunity to revisit these plans, the idea of getting out into the world and traveling internationally again has continued to enter my mind.

The player with the highest score wins the game! In the event of a tie, the player with the highest score for a single Underground line wins. If a tie persists, the players involved share the victory.Planning – Wandsworth Common: St James Conservation Area Character Statement" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 February 2008 . Retrieved 27 April 2010. Each turn, reveal the next Station card, then draw a new section on your own sheet. Once the first line is completed, pass the color pencil to the player on your left and all player start working on their second metro line. Build 4 lines before counting points.