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Yardmaster Express

#158742BGG ↗

2014 · 2-5 players · 10min · weight 1.07 · 1,263 ratings

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ID
158742
Name
Yardmaster Express
Year
2014
Rank
4943
Min players
2
Max players
5
Playing time
10
Min playtime
5
Max playtime
10
Avg weight
1.0658
Num weights
76
Bayes avg
5.58239
Average
5.74143
Users rated
1263
Num owned
2394
Wanting
12
Wishing
95
Num comments
493
Fetched at
Sat Apr 25 2026 16:21:37 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Mechanisms (2)
Open DraftingSet Collection
Categories (4)
Card GamePrint & PlayTrainsTransportation
Description (814 chars)

In Yardmaster Express, two to five players compete to have the highest valued train after a set number of rounds. The game starts with the first player drafting a Railcar card from his hand, attaching it to his train, then passing the rest of his hand to the player to his left. This draft continues until all players have added one Railcar to their train for each round of the game. The trick is, while each new Railcar must match the resource type or value of the one previously played, players always have the option to play any card face down as a Wild Railcar; the Wild Railcars don't have much value, but they can be used to save a player in a bind or to thwart your opponents by "hiding" a card they need. Yardmaster Express plays in ten minutes and consists of just 32 cards (no tokens, no cargo cards).

LLM v2 (wide)

Not yet enriched at v2 (wide pass).

LLM v3 (deep)

Not yet enriched at v3 (deep pass).