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1990 · 2-6 players · 90min · weight 2.42 · 386 ratings

v2 v3 v4 wide v4 deep

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ID
43
Name
Airlines
Year
1990
Rank
7474
Min players
2
Max players
6
Playing time
90
Min playtime
90
Max playtime
90
Avg weight
2.4242
Num weights
33
Bayes avg
5.64981
Average
6.57007
Users rated
386
Num owned
521
Wanting
26
Wishing
77
Num comments
134
Fetched at
Wed Apr 29 2026 05:34:55 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Mechanisms (3)
InvestmentNetwork and Route BuildingStock Holding
Categories (2)
Aviation / FlightEconomic
Description (614 chars)

Airlines' theme is exactly as suggested by the title. The game is similar to the Sid Sackson classic, Acquire, in that players are competing to become majority stockholders in several highly-abstracted companies with the player owning the most valuable portfolio at the end being the winner. Each turn, a player chooses from one of two actions: expand an airline and put stock into his hand, or play stock from his hand. Expanding an airline adds to its route(s) on the board and increases its value but the trick is that when a scoring card shows up (randomly), only played stock counts as a player's holdings.

LLM v2 (wide)

Not yet enriched at v2 (wide pass).

LLM v3 (deep)

Not yet enriched at v3 (deep pass).

LLM v4 wide (controlled-vocab primitives)

Not yet enriched at v4 (wide pass).

LLM v4 deep (archetype fit)

Not in the v4 deep-pass top-20% slice.