LOCOMOTIVES

HOW TO PLAY

Granny Gearbox at Central (A) lent you a neon loco and $5,500 at 6% a day. Haul silly goods between stations and get rich before the days run out.

• Each price shows how far it sits below or above the market (the average over every station). Buy below, sell above. The board posts timed deals: track one for an arrow.
• Contracts (a tab at every station): carry a shipment to another station before its clock runs out. The clock only runs while you ride. HOT ones pay more and draw the cops; FRAGILE ones break if you take a hit. Your contracts show under your cash while you ride (and under CONTRACTS at a station, with how the last ones went). A crash doesn't lose them (unless they're FRAGILE, or no longer fit), but the clock keeps running.
• A rich load draws heat. Too hot and Officer Hardbark comes after you: outrun him, or hide in a crossing.
• The clock only runs while you ride. Steer with WASD / arrows (or swipe), Q faster, E slower. On diagonal and honeycomb track the train takes the way closest to your arrow (equally close: the straighter one); with no arrow it holds its line, zigzagging through the hives.
• Towns are joined by themed routes: ghost-pirate forests, rush-hour districts, Track Tetris canyons, minefields. Depots on the way are checkpoints, and your run is saved at every stop.
• Hits eat carriages and cargo; a crash gets you towed back to the last station or depot. Score = cash − debt.