String Railway

String Railway is a train game made of colored string, tokens, station tiles and a scoring board, and it is as unusual as that sounds. To set up, you lay a long string in a big circle on the table as the playing field, then a small string circle for mountains and a string line for a river, and place each player's main station at equal distances. On your turn you draw a station tile and place it, then try to lay a string of railroad between your stations to connect them into your own network. Connected stations score victory points. It's a hands-on, tactile route-building game you can set up on any table. Two to five players, about thirty minutes, from age eight.