Prairie Railroads - Learn While Playing

0:00 welcome to the Jong games tutorial for Prairie railroads in this video I'll be teaching you the rules to the game as it's being played and I will be showing you about half of a game today now before I go into that I do want to ask that if you enjoyed this video that you please click the like button for it down below as well as a subscribe button for the channel in addition to that if you'd like to directly support the channel and get access to a ton of exclusive perks then please go to patreon.com games some of those perks include getting access to my dozens of opinions episodes where I've talked about the hundreds of games that I've played over the last few years with the things I like and don't like about them as well as giving updates as I continue to play them you can also watch some videos early and advertisement free and get access to an exclusive podcast feed where you can hear audio versions of all of my Vlogs including those opinions episodes I just mentioned now coming back to this game I do want to ask that if all you're watching this some part of it jumps out to you as particularly interesting then please comment about that down below all right let's jump into the game out here we have the game fully set up and ready to play for our four different players now before I start I would like to ask that you please turn on the Klingon subtitles I might make mistakes as I'm showing you the game and those will let me put Corrections on the screen where you should be able to see them and I will also put Corrections below this video in the top comment well let's start things off with a brief overview of the game in it each player is an investor buying stocks in various railroads that are building from America's eastern coast out west because the Great Plains are where cattle wheat and other crops are being grown in abundance and there is a lot of money to be made transporting those goods back to

1:32 the east now the way the game works is we will start with an initial auction where players spend their money into the treasuries of these companies to buy one of each of their stocks then we'll start playing the game and on a player's turn they can either play one of these cards in their hand which let them either construct track offer up stocks or pay dividends or the player can draw the top card from this shuffled up deck which has construct track offer stock and pay dividends cards in it whatever card is flipped up is the action that is done so essentially you control what the action is or you go random but this is a predefined limited set of cards once You' spent all of these on your turns you must draw randomly from the top of the deck and you are allowed to draw from here even if you have cards in your hand when we construct track we are going to spend money out of the treasuries of these railroads to place their cubes down onto this map which will increase that railroads income now before cubes are even placed when constructing we are going to grow a random City we'll roll this D twice which will give us a two-digit number and then we'll find the associated City and then develop it putting one of these cubes on top of it and this increases the income for all railroad cubes that are connected to that City the next action is offering stock where the active player chooses any one of these companies with a share they put that share up for auction and bid on it the auction will then proceed clockwise and once all but one person passes that person pays their bid into the treasury of that company and then takes that stock now the reason you want stocks is because they allow you to build these companies and when dividends get paid

3:04 out players will get one of the income value for each of their stocks in these companies so as you invest in companies you like to lay track out to increase the income to increase the payouts you get for the stocks that you have already paid for now each player only has one of these pay dividends cards so we can choose when one of these happens but there are four of them in this draw deck which could randomly happen when players decide to draw from it the last thing to say is that there is extra value in building track to the West you can only do this once you are connected to one of these leftmost positions you have to spend a significant amount of money out of that railroad's treasury but then you put a cube down and only that railroad pays out dividends once again for the stocks that people have in that specific railroad now we're going to keep playing the game until eight railroad cards have been played or until any player cannot play any cards because they don't have any in their hand and this draw deck is gone at that point we will do one final dividend and this one is a bit different you the income to the value of the companies which has to do with the cubes on the board and then you divide it by the number of stocks held you get that payout per stock and then whoever has the most money wins the game now I will describe how all of this works in detail while we are playing the game and on that note it's now time for us to start for today's tutorial we are going to play as the purple player up here and the first thing that we do is an initial auction in this step we're going to auction off one stock in each of the six companies and we will move from the left to the right this means we start an auction for a stock in the black company NeXT up we randomly pick a player to be

4:34 the start player you can use this D6 die over there for that and in this case I've decided that randomly we are the first player this means we have the first opportunity to bid on that stock and we can bid zero but that is effectively a pass and once you pass you can no longer bid in that specific auction for that stock now with a four-player game each of us begins with $70 and I think we'll start the bid at $25 after that it's Green's turn they can pass which means they're out of this auction or they can increase the bid by at least $1 they've decided to stay in and they'll actually jump up to $30 now yellow can go and they're going to pass which means blue can go and they're going to say $35 again you can bid just $1 more but there are reasons to spend money in $5 increments and I'll get to that when I discuss constructing track so it's $35 coming back to us and I think we'll pass on that this means 35 now goes to the green player and they'll say 40 now goes to Blue and they're going to pass this means everyone has passed except green so they can spend their $40 bid first making some change and that money goes into the black railroads treasury after this the green player does take that stock and then they place the first track down for that company at no cost now each of these companies has different potential starting positions for the black railroad they must build out of Troy as you can see there are two different options coming out of Troy in that that means that the green player can decide to put this track here or there as you

6:04 can see track is always laid between two cities for now they've decided to pick this spot going from Troy to whiting and now the black railroad's income will increase by the value of each of the connected cities now this green triangle for all of the starting cities is worth zero income but we can see here there is a diamond shape out on the board there are specifically diamonds squares and hexagons the hexagons increase the income by the number shown the diamonds increase the income by one and the squares increase the income by two there's a plate raid for this on the board and as you can see if a city becomes developed its income increases by one and I'll explain how we grow into developed cities during the first construct track action of the game once again that's 0 + one so the black company's starting income is one we show that on this track here so that we don't have to keep Computing what our income is as these cubes are placed onto the board that finishes the first out of six initial auctions the next share to be auctioned off is for the blue railroad the initial bidder for this auction is going to be the player who won the previous auction that is the green player so they can now bid on Blue they have $30 remaining I think they're just going to pass this means yellow now gets to bid and they jump right up to $30 now blue can go and they'll just say 31 now it's over to us and I like the look of this blue railroads starting position let's increase the bid up to 40 I think we'll just jump right right up to that green has already passed so it's now over to yellow and they'll say 41 now

7:35 blue can go and they say 42 we are up again and instead of 43 let's just go to 45 that is a lot of our money but I think it's worth it so we'll save 45 it now goes to yellow and it's too rich for their blood they're going to pass and blue passes as well it's possible we just overpaid for this but let's give it a go this means we put $45 Into the Blue railroads treasury then we take that blue stock and we can place the first blue track down much like the black railroad blue only has one city starting option and in fact we don't have a choice we have to go from Atkinson down here to Topeka as you can see Topeka has an income of four printed on it so the blue railroad's starting income is four we'll put the tracker onto the four position and as you can see that's a lot better than the black railroads starting position again this is the reason why we pushed so hard for this and hopefully that wasn't a mistake for us all right the next auction is for this brown Railroad stock we start the auction and sure let's just say $25 that's all of our remaining money green is up next and they'll say $30 which is all of their remaining money and then it's yellow's turn they'll say 31 now blue gets to go and they'll say 35 now we have to pass and so does green because we cannot afford to increase our bids and now yellow increases the bid to 40 blue passes on that so so the yellow company wins it for 40 and now they have a decision to make with this starting track for the brown railroad as you can see it can start

9:08 from Levenworth or Kansas City these circles not only have the railroads color around them but they also have the icon for that railroad the brown railroad happens to be Kansas and Pacific so they can start from Levenworth going to Lawrence or they can go from Kansas City to Lawrence or Kansas City down to Ottawa they're going to go with this one Kansas City to Ottawa that is a Square which adds two to the income again this triangle adds zero so the brown railroad's income starts at two moving on we now have a share of the yellow railroad to auction off the yellow player begins this and they'll say 30 that's all of their money now it goes to the blue player and they can see that their opponents have 3030 and $25 so blue is just going to bid $31 and win this outright because nobody can afford to outbid them so they win the stock and then they put $331 into the yellow railroads treasury the blue player now constructs the first yellow railroad track as you can see it can begin out of Kansas City paa or Fort Scott I think they've decided to build out of Fort Scott Pao would have given them a quick route over to Topeka but it looks like maybe their plan is to head more in the South we'll just have to see they could certainly head up as well to topa from that angle as long as it's not blocked and again I'll talk about the construct track action soon that connection adds 0 plus two to the yellow railroads income so it begins at 2 all right the auctions continue with the

10:38 first stock of the red Railroad and blue begins this and we've all spent quite a bit of money so far the blue player still has $39 compared to the 3030 and 25 of the rest of us maybe we spent too much we'll just have to see how it goes as the game proceeds blue again begins this they could buy this stock for $31 and I think that's what they're going to do and now that they've paid into the treasury they have to construct the first track for the red railroad that can come out of paa Fort Scott Gerard or Columbus they're going to head all the way down here connecting Columbus to Coffeeville that's 0 plus two income which means the red railroad also begins with an income of two and now it's time for the final initial auction this for a green Railroad stock and once again blue starts this but they only have $8 left and they'll bid $8 which is obviously going to be outbid we will say $25 unfortunately two of our opponents have more money than that though and the green player has decided they'll bid $30 which ends the auction because of course yellow cannot out bid them so $30 goes into the treasury for the green Railroad and then the green player can place this initial track and as you can see the green railroad can start in every one of the beginning cities of course it has to go into a link that's not already occupied but there are still a bunch of options available they've decided to go here that connects paa to Ottawa and it increases the income by 0 plus two so the green railroad also

12:10 begins with an income of two at this point all of the initial auctions are done so now we can move into the main game the way this works is we start with the player who won the initial auction for the Green Missouri and Pacific Railroad that is the green player over here so they now take the first turn of the game now on a player's turn they either select one action card from their hand place it here and do what it says or they randomly draw the top card from this Shuffle deck put it into the used cards area and do what it says the cards within this deck are the same variety as those in our hands however some of the actions perform differently when chosen from a player's hand versus being drawn from the top of the deck and I'll explain those as we go on in this case the green player has decided to start by playing a construct track card from their hand into the used cards area now every time a construct track card is played either from a player's hand or from the top of the draw deck the first thing that player has to do is discover growth the way this works is they roll this D6 Die Twice the first number is five and the second number is two that means they find number 52 over here again the first number being the first roll and the second number being the second and that is right over here now as you can see there is a primary and secondary option and the way this works is if the primary city has not been developed veloped yet then it gets developed however if it was already developed then we go to the secondary City and we develop that if 52 is rolled and both Junction City and hugan have been developed then this player can

13:41 develop any primary city that has not been developed already if somehow every primary city has been developed then they would choose a secondary city that has not been developed now this is the first discover growth of the game which means nothing is developed so Junction City now gets developed we can see here there's a helpful reminder that Junction City can be found in position C7 on the map so we find C and 7 and that means Junction City is right around here in fact it's right there now as you can see the square and Diamond positions both have the dimensions that allow a cube to be placed so we take a development Cube from the supply and we place it onto that City what this means is Junction City is developed and developed cities are worth one more income than normal Junction City is now worth three income for each Cube that is connected Ed to it after discovering growth the active player now chooses a railroad to construct track now if they control a railroad they can construct track with it and a player controls a railroad if they have the majority of stocks in that railroad or tied for the majority in this case the green player has the majority for the black and green railroads so they have to choose one of those now I do want to mention that if the current player did not control any companies with their stocks then they'd have to choose any of the six railroads even even if they don't have stock in it and the player who does control that railroad gets to perform a construct track action even though it would not actually be their turn this is not the case right now though and the green player has decided to construct track for the green railroad this means

15:13 they're going to place one or two cubes down onto the map and they have three options to choose from the first option is they place a single Cube and then they spend $5 out of that railroad's treasury the second option is they place two cubes down but now they have to spend $15 so essentially $75 per Cube as opposed to $5 per cube when one cube is placed and then the third option does still involve placing one Cube but specifically that Cube Goes West onto one of these black icon W spots as long as that railroad is already connected to this city here going west can be very expensive the first time it happens cost $15 the second time cost 20 and so on and I'll explain the details of going west later on in the tutorial because obviously no company is REM Ely close to doing that yet so let's focus back over here and the green player has decided to place two cubes down for the green railroad the first cube is going to go here and every time a cube is placed it must connect to a city that was already connected for that company so this first Cube would have to go onto any of these options and they've decided to go here that connects Ottawa up to Topeka with their second Cube placement they're going to go here connecting Topeka up to Manhattan now when you place two cubes down there are two extra restrictions the first is that the second Cube must connect to the city that the first Cube connected to essentially you have to place these cubes out in a line you are not allowed to fork with the cubes placed the other restriction is the city that is now connected by the second Cube

16:45 cannot already be connected with that railroad Manhattan is obviously not connected to the green railroad yet so this is a legal play after putting these cubes down they do have to pay for it remember two cubes played for one construct action costs $15 out of that railroad's treasury the green railroad had $30 so now it has 15 remaining finally we now have to update the income for the railroad that just constructed remember every Cube placed is going to increase the income for both of the cities that it is adjacent to the squares increase income by two and the Diamonds increase by one and the hexagons increase by the number in the middle so this Cube adds 4+ 2 or six income and then we add the income for this Cube it is also connected to topa so that's 4 plus another two for the square at Manhattan so that is an additional six income and that means this expensive track lay increased the income for the green Railroad by 12 total so the green railroad jumps from two all the way up to 14 income well that finishes the green player turn but the last thing I do want to say about the construct track action is that if it was pulled from the top of this deck randomly it behaves the same way we've seen already except the active player can only choose to place a single Cube down onto the board and they can not go west with that Cube and they cannot place two cubes down so that is the difference between going from the draw deck or going from the player's hands at this point with green done play now moves clockwise to the yellow player they've decided to play a card from their hand and this is an offer stock action they put that into the used cards

18:17 pile and now they can choose any stock that is still unsold and start an auction for it they've decided to start with an auction for a green Railroad stock next up the current player who is will start this auction and the minimum initial bid is going to be the value of that company divided by five now the value of each company is $5 for every Cube that's placed on the board the green company has three cubes placed on the board so its value is currently 15 when you divide that by five that means the minimum value for this stock is three essentially you can just count the cubes on the board and the number of Cubes out there is going to be the minimum bid for that stock now there is one extra wrinkle when it comes to calculating value and that is that if the company has gone west which means there's a cube on one of these W's then that Cube adds $25 more doar to the overall value of that company but once again I don't think any company is going to be going west anytime soon now that minimum is actually the minimum to successfully take a stock the yellow player doesn't have to bid that they could just bid zero if they wanted to but if it goes all the way around and no player has reached a bid equal to the minimum then the stock is placed back into the supply and that player's turn is done effectively they would have just spent an offer stock card in order to do nothing now yellow could bid 26 which would buy the stock automatically because we could not outbid them but they think that would be foolish they're actually going to bid 15 the blue player

19:47 has to pass and then it comes to us so we could bid 16 if we wanted to but I think we'll pass yeah we'll let this one ride so that means the yellow player buys this stock for the relatively low price of 15 and of course they pay that money into the treasury of the green railroad that finishes the offer stock action but I do want to point out that if this action came randomly drawn from the top of the deck then it works much the same way except the stock that is chosen has to be from the company that has the most or tied for the most stocks still in the market now there is one other option to perform with the offer stock action that we did not see yellow do if you play the card from your hand instead of offering a stock from the market you can offer a stock that you already own you cannot bid on your own stock and once you start the auction for any stock you cannot resend it and if somebody else bids and wins that stock then they pay you instead of paying the bank and then of course they take that stock and when a card is revealed from the top of the deck you cannot offer your own stock again it must be from one of the companies that has the most stocks still in its treasury all right yellow is done which means the blue player can go and they are going to construct track from their hand they of course begin by discovering growth that is going to be in the city at 43 the primary city is Russell at position C4 and it is not developed already which means it gets developed now now the blue player can construct track for a railroad they

21:18 control they control yellow and red and they've decided to lay track for the red Rail Road they're going to put two cubes down the first one will go here connecting Coffeeville to sedan and the second Cube will go there connecting sedan to Windfield that increases the income by 1 2 3 then 4 5 6 so the red railroad's income goes up to eight that's nowhere near as good as the green railroad for the same amount of money but I think the blue player has a plan for now the red railroad has $16 remaining in its treasury blue is done which means we can now take our first turn of the game now that a mind let's take a look at this hand of cards that we got at the beginning everyone started with the same hand of 14 cards and in it we have a single paay dividends card then we have five of these offer stock cards and then eight of these construct track cards now I like the idea of constructing track but I think let's offer stock on our turn when it comes to our opponent treasuries yellow has $15 and the blue player has eight so I think what we'll do is offer up another one of these blue shares and we are going to bid 15 and we'll just win it because of course none of our opponents can out bid that so we'll spend $15 and that will go into the blue railroads treasury we still have $10 remaining nice this does mean that the yellow player could offer stock and win one for $11 but they might want to focus on actually increasing the value of the portfolio they already have we'll just have to see what they do when we get there for now the green player is up and

22:49 they have no money now they could put a pay Dividend Card down but each of us has only one of those and even though they have no money I think they want to get a bit more money before that happens yeah they are going to play a construct track card from their hand and then discover growth that was a six and a two so Newton will be developed that's at position E6 which is right over here now green can lay track for the green or black railroads the yellow player has a stock in green so I think the green player would rather lay track for the black railroad that nobody else is currently invested in much like the other construct track actions we've seen already they're going to begin by putting two cubes down now with this they do have a choice they could connect Whiting to Topeka or Troy up to Maryville they're going to connect Whiting to Topeka though that offers a lot more income and I do want to point out that some of the routes have arrows on them that means you can only construct in that specific Direction so as you can see now that they're going to play another Cube down they cannot go here connecting TOA up to Lawrence because that would be going in the wrong direction compared compared to that Arrow instead they are going to connect Topeka up to Council Grove that's a bit of a bummer I was hoping to do that with the blue railroad but we decided to offer stock instead maybe that was a mistake for now though the black railroad does have to spend $15 which it can easily afford and then its income will increase by four five 9 10 this

24:21 brings it up to 11 and the green players portfolio is looking better than the rest of us at this point all right Green is so yellow can go and I don't think anyone's surprised to see more construct track actions being performed they start by discovering growth that's two and A1 21 is here Maryville at A7 okay that could change some plans now yellow can construct track for green or brown they're tied for the majority of green stocks which means they do still technically control it they're going to construct with brown though and place two cubes down for $15 Brown is currently connected to Ottawa and they're going to connect Ottawa up to Emporia and then I think go back over here to Topeka that costs $15 which means the brown Company still has $25 remaining and then the income for the brown railroad goes up by 456 7 8 9 10 that means Brown is up to 12 okay yellow is done which means blue can go and they are going to construct a track as well each of us has invested a lot of money in these companies it makes sense that that we are primarily laying track at this point to try and increase the income of our portfolio to get more money when somebody decides to perform a dividend action constructing track Begins by discovering that is going to be 11 that is Selena at C6 C6 means it's here wow that's a lot of development all in the same area I think that's certainly going to change some plans

25:52 probably funneling a lot of attention into this Central Area now blue chooses a company to construct track with and they control both yellow and red they've already built with red though and they're going to pick it again the yellow railroad certainly needs some help but the red railroad is in a position to vastly increase its income and on the off chance one of their opponents decides to do an early dividend action the blue player wants to make sure they capitalize on this proximity now they could put two cubes down but the red railroad has $16 in its treasury so it would go down to one and not get any more money until another red stock was purchased and at this Point players don't have that much money so if somebody was to buy a cheap red stock then that means the red railroad isn't getting that much money to construct Future track it is tempting for them to put two cubes down on Witchita that would increase their income by 14 but I think they've decided to try and be patient they're going to put one Cube here they're following the arrow as you can see and that increases the red railroads income by 5 + 2 and it only costs $5 out of the red railroads treasury going slow like this means they're going to going to get a lot more track down for the money in that treasury of course it also means that they're going slow so the income is not increasing as quickly as I said the income is increased by seven so this does still put the red Railroad in the lead on that income track all right blue is done which means we can go and I think we should absolutely construct some track we have to discover first and the town getting developed is going to

27:22 be 15 that is Beloit at B5 that is is here wow even more development up in the north and now the only railroad we can construct track with is blue and of course that is absolutely what we want to do the blue railroad has a bunch of money specifically our money that we invested in it so I think we should jump on these opportunities and put two cubes down now the blue railroad can currently only build out of Topeka and we only have one choice we cannot go against this arrow down to Lawrence so we'll connect Topeka up to duth and then duth over to Marysville Marysville has been developed and it was a square so it started out at two and it became a three income because of that development so this is going to be 4 5 6 7 8 9 9 + 4 is 13 income and then the blue railroad has to spend $15 I strongly suspect we are going to be constructing track for a few turns in the future that's a lot of money that we can spend all right we are done which means green can go they've decided they're going to construct track and growth is discovered at 16 we're rolling really low right now that's Iola at E9 and that is great for the yellow company this development Cube goes down and we do have to check if there are any cubes adjacent to a recently developed City the yellow railroad is connected once so the yellow railroad's income increases by one retroactively I am genuinely

28:54 surprised we haven't been seeing development out here although the cities are much denser in the East so it's more likely that those will be developed now green is going to construct track with the black Railroad and they've decided to slow things down they could go here connecting Junction City to Council Grove that would increase the income by four but instead they're going to connect Council Grove over to Harrington that only increases income by three but it appears they have a plan for the future they of course spend $5 out of that treasury which means the black railroad still has $20 left in it and then its income increases by three green is done so yellow gets to go and they've decided to construct track discovering growth starts that's going to be a five and a one 51 is Kingman at F5 that is here and this area is definitely starting to get a lot more incentivized now yellow constructs track with the brown Railroad and they are going to do a double track placement with this this they'll connect Emporia up to Cottonwood Falls and Cottonwood Falls down to El Dorado that increases the income by 1 2 3 4 5 6 six brings it all the way up to 18 of course this does cost $15 so the brown railroad has $10 remaining well yellow is done so blue gets to go and construction track is going to continue again it's not too surprising this is the primary action that we are seeing right now we all

30:24 start with eight of these cards in our hand and we're building up the value of our portfolio of course every time we play one from our hand that is one less that we can guarantee to play at some point we're going to start wanting to draw from this deck but it makes sense that that would be a later game decision all right discovering growth happens that is a 25 this will develop Dodge City at F3 that is here it's the Western most development that we've seen so far and now blue is going to continue to ignore yellow they are going to construct with the red railroad there's only $11 in that treasury though so they cannot do a double build they are going to build out of Witchita over here connecting Witchita to Kingman that is an upgraded Square so that adds three plus 5 or8 income which jumps the red railroads income all the way up to 23 at the low cost of $5 they are done so we get to go and I think we absolutely need to keep constructing with blue it is in danger of being completely locked out based off of how things are going because we started out pretty slow with it it so let's construct track it looks like we have six of those remaining in our hand and we begin with growth 64 is here Great Bend at D5 that is here and now let's construct two track for blue now we have some options although all of them are going to originate at Maryville and part of me

31:56 wants to head down here but again I am worried that another company could come in and start to block us although Manhattan does give us quite a few options we could also just head out west there is one development over there we could also maybe try to start heading down towards Witchita but that might be out of our reach with that blue railroad there are lots of other railroads much closer and they are obviously angling to get to Witchita sooner than we could get there which means there might not be any openings for us by the time we do get there and this does feel like a pivotal moment for the blue railroad there might be better short-term gains down here but also lots of ways that other railroads could block us I think because of that let's connect Maryville up to Kuba and then connect that down to Concordia this increases our income by three four 5 six certainly not great for spending $15 but again it gets us into our own area where maybe we can start being more efficient with our track lays now that we certainly can't be easily blocked locked it's also entirely possible that this is a bad plan hopefully it works out for us the blue company does still have $30 remaining so we could do two more double track lays instead of going slow we'll just have to make that decision later on as I said that increased the income by six bringing blue up to 19 it's now time for green to go and they've decided to construct track discovering growth will happen at 51 that is Kingman at F5 we

33:29 have actually developed F5 already we rolled 51 earlier that means we now look to the secondary Target this is monato at A5 A5 is here oo that's really close to our blue track I like it now green is going to construct with the black Railroad and they are going to continue going slowly they'll spend $5 out of its treasury to go here connecting Harrington down to Maran that increases the income by two plus one or three so Black's income is up to 17 and I know we haven't actually seen the use of this income yet that will happen when dividends happen and it wouldn't surprise me if the first dividend comes relatively soon now yellow can go and they've decided not to construct instead they are going to offer stock they can see that the blue player has been putting a bunch of effort into that red Railroad and because of that they are going to put this red railroad up for auction and they are going to buy it immediately spending $11 that's one more than what we have so nobody else can compete with them for that $11 goes into the red railroads Treasury and yellow has $4 left and three stocks all right they're done which means the blue player can go they're a little bummed about that they've been pushing red very hard and yellow just swooped in and was able to take advantage of that blue is going to construct track although it's unlikely to be red at this point I think and they start by discovering oh wow Selena again that's

35:02 happened already so that means badier gets developed that's at F4 right here now blue is going to construct with the yellow railroad they could construct red but of course that would just be helping out the yellow player as much as themselves so they'll construct with the yellow Railroad and it has quite a bit of money they're going to put two cubes down now they have to start from Iola which they're pretty happy about considering it's been developed and they think yellow really needs to start making its way west they are going to connect Iola up to Eureka and then Eureka over to El Dorado that will increase the income by 345 6789 and it will cost $15 from the yellow railroads treasury once again yellow has quite a bit of money at this point although that does bring them down to 16 total money and then they add nine income to three that brings them up to 12 unfortunately still in last place not too surprising though considering they only have three cubes on the board okay this means we can now take our turn and we do have four of these offer stock cards still at the moment we have more money than anybody else and I suspect at least one of our opponents is planning on doing a dividend soon maybe we should get in on red yeah let's give it a go let's offer up stock as I said we'll offer up red there's just two remaining and we will bid 10 and that's all of our money and nobody else can out bid us we technically could buy this for $9 yeah let's be greedy we get that stock and I'm feeling

36:35 pretty good about it now it is worth noting that the minimum value for that stock was 1 2 3 4 5 but again I spent nine so that was over the minimum to actually purchase the stock all right we are done which means green can go and I think they're feeling worried they only have two stocks compared to the three of a couple opponents they also have no money currently so they're going to construct track with the only company they have that no one else is in that is the black railroad of course they have to start by discovering growth that will be in 46 this is Eureka f8 that is certainly going to make the blue player happy this Cube goes there and that increases the income for Yellow by two so yellow is up to 14 and then green will construct with the black railroad now the black railroad has $15 currently and they are suspicious that a dividend might be coming soon they're going to place both of these down which spends all $15 from the black railroads treasury I am getting ahead of myself they now place these cubes down they're going to connect Maran to Newton and then Newton to Witchita I do want to point out that there is supposed to be a circle on the map there connecting Newton to Witchita that is going to be a big income increase that's 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 so the black red Road jumps all the way to 29 green is done so yellow gets to go they are going to construct

38:06 track so they begin by discovering growth that was 64 that means Great Bend gets developed however it is already developed so instead sedan gets developed at G8 G8 is here that's great for the red company which is also great for the yellow and blue players the red railroad increases its income by two that brings it up to 25 now yellow constructs and they are going to choose the brown railroad that company only has $10 so they cannot do a $15 double Cube lay they'll spend the five though and then they'll connect elado to Witchita that's a pretty great connection that increases the brown railroads income by seven this brings it up to 25 well it's now the blue players turn and they do have more money than the rest of us we are all very fre cash Pour at this point and blue has decided now is the time to strike they are going to offer stock now they want to offer a black stock the minimum price to successfully buy it is 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 because remember it's the value divided by five and of course the value is each of these cubes times 5 now the value is increased by 25 if that company has gone west but we don't have to worry about that for now so again they have to pay a minimum of $7 and they have $8 so they are going to spend the seven which is the minimum saving $1 the $7 will go into the black railroads treasury that seems like a great deal for the best

39:36 company on the board right now well that finished a quick turn for them and at this point we all essentially can't buy any more stocks I suppose the minimum value for yellow is three so the yellow player could purchase a yellow stock if they wanted to on their turn but we'll see what happens when it gets them for now blue is done which means we get to go and with so little money out here I know a dividend is coming soon it might even be us with that in mind and with the fact that the blue Railroad Company still has $30 in its treasury I think we certainly want to construct track right now to increase the dividend that must be coming soon we start by discovering growth that is 61 liberal at G2 gets developed G2 is here oh that's interesting it's essentially at a dead end well this is going to incentivize people to head down there and now let's construct to track with the blue railroad we'll spend $15 which means it has $15 left in its Treasury and then let's build from Concordia over to abene and from abene over here to Selena that will increase our income by 2 4 6 7 89 that's nice but I am feeling a little jealous of not being able to get down there to Witchita either way nine income is good that brings blue up to 28 well it's now the green player turn and they are not happy about this but they are going to play their one paid Dividend Card they have zero money the rest of us are really low and they are

41:07 worried that maybe they should have done this earlier the rest of their opponents have been able to buy some very cheap shares because generally speaking we just don't have that much money paying dividends is going to put a bunch of money into the system and yeah they feel like they've already made a mistake waiting this long but they're going to try to correct that now now when a paay dividends card is played either from hand or randomly from the top of the deck each player is paid out for the stocks that they have based off of the income for that company specifically you divide the income of that company by five and then round up and then every stock owned by players gains them that much money from the bank we can start at the top so that means the black railroad's income is 29 when you divide that by five and round up that will pay out $6 per black share green has one and blue has one so each of them gets $6 and then the blue railroad goes it's at 28 that divided by five rounded up is six a share and we're the only ones with blue Railroad stock so we get 6 plus 6 or $12 and then the brown railroad is at 25 that divided by five is exactly five so the yellow player gets $5 that's the only Brown stock held next up there is the red stock which is also five per share there is red up here with us also with yellow and blue so that is five for everybody but the green player now the green player is definitely not going to make as much money as the rest of us are here but again they needed to do this so that the rest of their opponents would stop getting such cheap shares because we will now compete with each other with our increased money next up there is

42:39 yellow that's at 14 divided by five makes it $3 per share blue gets $3 from this and finally there is the green railroad at 14 that's going to pay out three a share so three to the green player and three to Yellow all right I Consolidated the money and from that dividend we made $17 the green player only made n yellow made $13 and blue made 14 so we were the big winner there that was certainly great to see the green player do it but again at this point $9 is the lowest amount of money that anybody has so if anybody wants to buy a stock they're going to have to pay at least $10 for it and of course we will potentially be competing with each other when that happens because some of these stocks are very lucrative that has finished the dividend and that card is added into the used card pile but I'm going to be putting it down here it's effectively in the pile but the reason for that is because the way this game ends is at the end of any player's turn if all eight of the paay dividends cards have been played or if at the start of a player's turn they have no actions to perform because all of their cards are gone and all of the cards from this draw deck are gone then in that moment the game ends and then we perform an endgame special dividend the way this works is we pay dividends for each company but this is different from a regular dividend you start by taking the income then you add to that the value of the company which is again $5 per Cube on the board plus $25 if instead it is a go west Cube you add that value to the income and then you

44:09 divide that by the number of held stocks for that company unlike the dividends where we always divide by five now we are diluting on each other so if there's a company that people don't believe in a player could still get a bunch of money at the end of the game if they're not dividing that total amount that many times with their opponents whereas some of the best companies might not pay out that well at the end because all of us are trying to get in on that company and we delute on each other now after that special dividend the player with the most money is going to be the winner now once again there are eight pay dividends cards in the game each of us started with one in our hand and there are four shuffled up into this deck we haven't seen any cards drawn from this yet but again that's not too surprising we have a lot of variety in our hand and I think what we're going to do as we move into the yellow players turn is fast forward through a few turns

45:00 all right we're going to slow down at this point we've seen a lot more track lays a few stocks were purchased and we actually just used our pay dividend so two out of the potential eight dividends have been paid out it's now the green player turn and their hand of cards is starting to get pretty low because of that they've decided they want to save some of the flexibility of knowing what they can do in these for later and they're going to draw the first random card from the game people could have definitely drawn randomly earlier but at this point it feels like people are now a little bit wary about holding on to things to guarantee later on so they draw the top card and it's offer stock now when the offer stock comes from the draw deck the current player has to offer a stock that still has the most stocks in its Supply if there's a tie then the current player can choose and there is a four-way tie with three green yellow brown and black stocks out there Brown is currently the best company they are going to put a brown stock up for auction now the green player has $21 which is the least out of everybody at this moment and they're just going to say $21 that brown stock is worth a lot next up yellow can go they will say 22 then blue can go and they'll say 23 blue has $29 at this point and we have 31 so we could certainly out bid that 23 if we want let's go for it let's spend our money let's just buy it for $29 that's what the blue player has maybe we're overpaying for it but that's fine of course that $29 goes into the

46:32 treasury for the brown company we have five stocks though that feels pretty good although we're not going to be buying another stock for a while especially considering we've already used our pay dividends so we are now at the whim of our opponents or of course we could start drawing random to try and find more dividends out of that now this was for the brown company and the green player turn is done that means yellow is up and let's see what they're going to do they're going to go random as well maybe it's just that part of the game of course when people go random is going to be different from one play group to the next this card is construct track now this has to happen for one of their companies and they can only put one Cube down because that came from the draw deck they have to control the company of course they do not control blue because we have more than them they do control red green and brown though the green company only has two stocks out right now and it has money yeah I think they're going to build with green because of this game from the top of the deck they can only put one Cube down so that spends $5 and then they're going to try to break out there's a lot of Cubes over here they're going to place from abene over to Beloit that will increase the income by 3 plus 2 or five so green goes from 28 up to 33 and green has a lot more building options up here oops I just realized I jumped the gun we were supposed to discover growth first that is 15 oh Theo well that has already been developed so it would be at jobu at E3 instead we can see that's right here and yeah that would not have changed how the yellow player constructed moving on the blue player can go as you can see our

48:03 hands of cards are actually pretty light and yeah they're going to go random as well there is another offer stock that means they have to put up a black yellow or green stock they already have a black and a yellow they'd rather not dilute those anymore yeah they're going to put up a green stock the minimum bid for that is 1 2 3 4 5 6 and they're going to bid 15 we have to pass and now green is up they will bid 21 all of their money so it goes to Yellow they have $28 and I think they have their eyes on different stock they're going to pass on that 21 this means blue is now up they could easily pay the 22 needed to buy this and I think they will so $22 goes into the green railroads treasury they get that stock as well and their turn is done this means we can go and let's take a quick look at our diminished hand of cards we have three construct tracks left and three offer stocks left of course as I said we used our pay dividends card already so we could play one of these or we could start going random like everybody else seems to be doing suddenly I think we'll construct track right now instead of going random I'm sure we'll have to go random soon because obviously if we don't we have five more turns of guaranteed actions before we have to see what's in the whim of that deck so we'll construct developing first that will be at 65 mcferson at D6 D6 is here and the black railroad is

49:35 connected to that so that'll increase its income by one which bumps it up to 34 now we can build and I figure we'll go with blue that's still the company we are best at there is $15 in the bank but I think we'll only spend $5 of it to put a single blue cube down this one will go here increasing the blue railroads income by three and one so that's four more four brings it up to 40 so we're done and green can go they're going to draw random from the top it's construct track this can only be one Cube and they are going to spend $5 out of the green company's treasury to put a green Cube down they will put that one here connecting bit up to osbor that will increase the income by three four all right green is done which means yellow can go and they are going to offer stock they're going to choose yellow the minimum bid is 1 2 3 4 5 six 7 or at least the minimum amount to win this now they're just going to win it they're going to buy it for 21 that's the amount of money that green player has so they'll put 21 into the yellow Treasury and take that stock well they're done so blue can go and they've decided to draw a random card from the top it's construct track now again this is a limited deck at this point it has 11 cards left in it and as more people start drawing from this it's probably going to deplete much faster in

51:07 this case they are going to spend the last $5 from the green railroads treasury to put one Cube down and they'll put it here that's not a very good spot for income it's between two diamonds so that only increases its income twice so they're done and now we can go and we should probably go random at this point we only two construct track and three offer stocks left we probably don't want to offer stocks right now so let's see what is here pay dividends okay there's four of them in that deck I think this is going to be good for us so let's perform the dividend we'll start with blue 40 divid 5 is eight a share so we are going to get 16 and then the yellow player is going to get eight after that we can see green is at 39 when you round that up that is also five a sh so the green player gets eight yellow gets eight and the blue player gets eight after that Brown is going to be eight a share when you round up from 39 so we will get eight so will green and so will yellow then yellow is at 35 divided by five that is seven a share so that's seven for us the yellow player and the blue player moving on to Black divide 34 by five and Roundup that's seven a share so green gets seven and so does blue finally there is red at 25 divide that by five that is $5 per share going to us yellow and

52:37 blue after all that we have $38 the green player has 44 yellow has 43 and the green player has $40 that's also the third out of eight potential dividends in the game and at this point green can go and I'm going to go ahead and fast forward again

53:01 and at this point we're going to slow down it is the green players turn and they are going to construct track from their hand they only have three cards left in their hand although there's still a decent number of cards here in the draw deck they of course start by discovering growth they got a five and a three that is Smith Center which is A5 right over here that does not help any of the railroad companies now green is going to construct and they will do it with black they are the only player to control it because they have two black stock now and with this construct action for the first time in the game they are going to do a western build now you can only do this if that railroad company is already connected to one of the westernmost cities in this case the black railroad is connected to Tribune you can also only do this if the W spot is empty and each railroad can only build West once per game obviously black has not done this yet so they are going to build West by placing this here and the first first railroad to build West only has to spend $15 from their treasury that goes directly into the supply and no income is applied however In This Moment a black railroad only dividend happens before we move to that though I do want to mention that the next time any railroad builds West they have to spend more dollars than the previous so essentially it's $15 for the first then 20 then 25 30 Etc as more and more companies build West now again the main reason to build West is to act AC ate that dividend which in this case only applies to the black railroad the income is currently at 50 when you divide that by five that is $10 paid out

54:34 to each of the black stocks that means green is going to get $20 for this then yellow will get 10 and then the blue player will get 10 everyone got money but us but we have a pretty good portfolio over here now that has finished the green player turn and at this point it would be time for the yellow player to go however I am now going to stop playing through the game and instead do an example of what the end of the game would look like remember the game ends at the end of a turn where eight of these dividends have been played in this case only three have happened so almost half of them the other way the game ends if anybody starts their turn and they have no cards in their hand and there are no cards in the draw deck for them to draw into in that case the game ends and in either of those we then move on to a final dividend now this one is special we add the income to the value of the companies and we divide that by the number of held stocks and let's just pretend like the game is over in this current situation and see what all these payouts would be like again if the game happened to be over now now again we add the income to the value of the railroad and the value is $5 per Cube unless that Cube has gone west and the black railroad has one of these now a western build adds 25 to the value so that's 25 and then 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 cubes that is 60 + 25 + 50 which is a total of 135 and then we divide 135 by the number of held stocks so again it's not divided by five naturally unless all five of those stocks are held by the players in this

56:05 example case that would be 135 divid 4 and when you round up that's $34 for each of the shares so that means the green player would get $68 yellow would get 34 and blue would get 34 then we look to the blue company it has 40 income and 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 cubes out here so that is 55 in Value Plus 40 this is 95 total and then that's divided by only three shares when you round up that's $32 per share almost as much as the black railroad because of course there's one less share that's diluting it so we'd get $62 and yellow would get 32 moving on the green and brown companies actually have the same payout they're each at 39 income and each of them have eight cubes on the board so the total for each of those is 79 and looking out here there are three held green sh shares and three held Brown shares so yeah each of these companies will pay out the same exact amount per share in this case $27 so we'd get $27 the green player would get 27 for brown and 27 for green same goes for the yellow player and then blue would get 27 for that green the yellow railroads at 35 and they have 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 cubes out here so that is 7 * 5 or 35 Plus 35 so that is 70 divided 3 which is 24 a share so we would get 24 so with yellow and so would blue and finally the red company has been a bit forgotten it has an income of 25 and only five cubes on the board so that is 25 plus 25 or 50 divided by three which

57:38 comes out to 17 a share which we would get the yellow player would get and the blue player would get now after we finish this endgame special dividend that of course brings in those values and dilutes the player with the most money will win the game now once again the game is far from over at this point only three out of the potential eight dividends have happened and players still have a decent number of cards in their hand I guess green only has three but again this draw deck has quite a few cards so it's likely this game is probably a little over halfway done maybe a little bit more it really depends on the actions that all of the players take well at this point I've covered just about all of the rules to the game so that means this tutorial is coming to an end I hope you enjoyed learning how to play prairie railroads as always I'd like to thank everyone who's been supporting this channel including these producer level patreon supporters if if you too would like to directly support the channel in the creation of future videos like this one then please go to Jong games.com ssupport also if you enjoyed this video please click the like button for it down below as well as the Subscribe button for the channel thanks for watching