Date: 21st February 2003
Game played: Transamerica ( Rio Grande Games ) BGG Id: 2842

Next up was my most played game of last year. Trans America packs a lot into half an hour’s gameplay and it is easy to introduce to a variety of groups, especially non-gamers. We’ve not played it at the club for quite a while so it was overdue a re-run. The first round was very tight with everybody within two spaces of completing their networks. Mark G suffered in the second round picking up 8 unwelcome points and meaning we didn’t need to shift the finishing line for the next round. Round 3 was Nige’s turn to score big, with the comment “I had a terrible position, I had Duluth, how does anyone get to Duluth”. Well I picked Duluth in the 4th (final) round and demonstrated to Nige that placing your starting station a couple of spaces away from Duluth made it quite easy to reach it.

John turned out to be the winner – his first victory for quite a while – and I’m sure he was pretty pleased with the victory. That is until I started the post-game chat by claiming there wasn’t that much strategy involved in the game, which led to the others highlighting to John that he had only won because it was a game of pure luck. Good fun though.

 
Player
Rating
Score
Position
Winner
John
9
1
Mark K
7
2
Garry
6
3
Nige
2
4
Mark G
0
5

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