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Continental Express
Year
2014
Players
2–4
Play time
20min
Min age
8+
Weight
1.24
BGG rating
5.97
BGG rank
#10184
Best with
3

Owned by

Michael Redlich

Local copies

Rating: ★ 6.0

Board game

Continental Express

Designed by Charles Chevallier

MeepleMates notes for Continental Express

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  • Continental Express is available as a public board game page on MeepleMates for group planning and collection tracking.
  • Best with 3 player according to player poll data.
  • BoardGameGeek average rating 5.97 and BGG rank #10184.
  • Groups use this page to connect Card Game, Trains metadata with real play history, ratings and game night notes.
  • Recommended player counts include 2, 4.
In Continental Express, players add train cars to their station in the hope of fulfilling objectives and maximizing the value of their secret contract. To start the game, each player chooses one of two contract cards dealt to them; these contracts require players to collect icons of a particular color or groups of like-colored icons or icons and company tokens of differing colors. Players then take turns drafting cards from three face-up rows; the card on the end of each row costs nothing, the card in the middle costs $1, and the card closest to each of the three decks costs $2. Players start with no money, however, and the only way to get some is to draft it - but naturally that means you'll be forgoing other cards. If a player has train cars matching one of the three face-up objective cards, he can choose to discard those train cars and claim the objective - and since the objectives have the icons that satisfy contracts, you'll probably want to do that. In addition to train cars and money, players can draft characters, taking the special action of a character when he drafts one. Actions include things like taking a train car of your choice from the card array, stealing all money from one player, and taking a company token of the color of your choice. The card decks also include two events, and those cards flush either the objective cards on display or the smaller cards that players draft. When a player claims his fourth objective, each other player takes one more turn, then the game ends. Players tally the points scored for their contract (if any), their claimed objective cards, and any money still in hand. Whoever has the highest score wins!

Categories

Card GameTrains

Mechanics

Set CollectionTagsVariable Player PowersOpen DraftingEventsContractsTurn Order: Progressive

Best with how many players

1
Not rec.
2
Recommended
3
Best
4
Recommended
4+
Not rec.

Community votes from BoardGameGeek

Language dependence

No necessary in-game text(4 of 4 votes)

Sub-rankings

  • Family Game Rank#2479

Videos

BoardGameGeek3

Review1

Instructional1

Unboxing1

External data

No Wikidata data is stored for this game yet. If the scheduled enrichment has run recently, Wikidata probably has no BGG mapping for it.

Latest Wikidata run: ok · 08/08/2026.

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