Free Ride USA (Freie Fahrt USA)

The title is a dead give-away: it's Free Ride transferred from Europe to North America. The only noticeable tweak is in what scores bonus coins – rewarding lengthy transcontinental routes.

The structure of the game is the same: players gradually construct the network of railway lines between cities. They use the network to complete pick-up-and-deliver routes, choosing a pair of cards for the starting and finishing cities. It's these cards that score points at the end of the game. A neat touch is that duplicate cards score fewer points, so there's always an incentive to go to different cities.

Coins are also worth points, so well worth collecting. However, you have to pay other players to use their lines. Only once, though, the line becomes free to use after that. This is an intriguing twist as players try to make the most of the free railways.

I do like a pick-up-and-deliver game and this is a particularly clever one.

Note: this is the English/German edition published by Friedemann's imprint, 2F Spiele, and has the German title on the front of the box.

For 1-5 players, aged 10+, playing time 50-90 minutes: £40.00 (£33.33 without tax outside the UK)
 

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Free Ride USA was designed by Friedemann Friese and is published by 2F Spiele

Find out more:
    Free Ride USA on BoardGameGeek
    Pevans's introduction to Free Ride USA (in To Win Just Once 245)

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