Timeline
| Retail Price: |
$4.00 |
| Players: |
2-5 |
| Playing Time: |
30 minutes |
| Elements: |
Cards and rules |
| You Need: |
1 Pawn for every player, about 30 counters in each
of 4 colors, and a way to keep score. |
Congratulations! You’ve invented a time machine. You
will use it one day to learn about the rich history of the planet and
perhaps even contribute to the betterment of Mankind. But first, you’re
gonna play the stock market and get really, stupidly rich.
Timeline starts with a row of cards depicting crisscrossing
paths, which represent the values of commodities. By connecting
a starting point, which never moves, to a “market” at the
other end of the board, the lines connect four commodities
to four values. As time changes, these values change. And
they change a lot.
During the game, players will travel through time picking
up miscellaneous commodities, then going to the markets at
the end of the line trying to get the most value for their
goods. The deck contains 48 cards in the familiar abstract
Hip Pocket style, and you’ll need a Pawn for each player as
well as about 30 colored stones in each of four colors.
With very little randomness, Timeline is an intense and engaging
strategy game that, for what it’s worth, models aspects of
time travel better than it has any right to.
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