Temporal agents (historians) from competing academies have traveled back in time to witness the sinking of the Titanic and correct any discrepancies in the historical record. Shortly after arriving, the Titanic's collision with the iceberg shatters their time machines, scattering the components and destroying the time modules. Luckily, the remaining components can be assembled into a Transporter that will allow an agent to leave the ship for ... somewhere else on Earth. Realizing they are trapped in 1912, the temporal agents decide to rescue as many passengers as possible who would otherwise have died - 1,517 people. The effects of such a rescue on the timeline are hard to predict...
Escape from the Titanic is a board game where players attempt to construct a Transporter and rescue as many doomed Titanic passengers and crew as possible. But, they must do so before the ship tilts to 90 degrees and sinks!
The game comes with two expansions already included. The optional components allow players to also collect Titanic artifacts and rescue castaways that were brought to the ship when the temporal agents' time machines were shattered. You will encounter such castaways as Albert Einstein, King George V, and Thomas Edison along with other famous people who were supposed to be on the Titanic but missed the trip such as Milton Hershey and J. P. Morgan.
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