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Capstone Games  |  SKU: CSGIR101

Irish Gauge (Second Printing)

$41.95 CAD
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Description
Designer Tom Russell
Publisher Capstone Games
Players 3-5
Playtime 60 mins
Suggested Age 12 and up

Irish Gauge — one of three titles in Winsome Games 2014 Essen Set — is played on a map of Ireland and is similar in style to many of the stock-based, cube-rail games released by Winsome Games since 2007.

On each player's turn, they can either place a share of one of five companies up for auction, build track (represented by cubes) in one of these five companies, upgrade a town to a city, or call for dividends. The dividends are paid out to shareholders of certain railroads based on how many cities/towns they connect to and how many shares of this company have been issued. The upgrade and dividend actions also affect game length and the likelihood of further dividends for each company. The game ends when a certain condition is met at the end of a player's turn, and the player with the highest sum of money and stock value at the end of this turn wins.

Customer Reviews

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Shawn Ens
Tiny Trains

Simple rule set but very interesting and tight decision making. Fun taste of a stocks and trains Game.

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Mike Joyce
love it

Complex decision space with a simple rule set (the rules are only 1 page!). Main mechanics are route building and auction. The game shows you enough to give you an idea of what is valuable but uses a bag pull system that you can never be sure how well you'll do when routes pay out. All that and it (usually) plays in under an hour.
This is one of my favourites, the only criticism is it, is a train game, so the theme may not be there for some groups. Personally I love train games, but not everyone in my group does, so it doesn't hit the table as often as I would like.

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Riley Jay
Great train game

I bought this on a whim from the "city of the big shoulders" susd review. Very pleasantly surprised. Surprised though to buy 'ride the rails' as well!

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Alex P

Great game!

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Eric Chamney
Good game

Smart little game. Good bang for the buck.
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