18 India
BGG rank
BGG #6,125
BGG rating
7.5

18 India

2023

Rules assistance for 18 India

Plain-language explanations of turns, card effects and disputed situations, with official source references and saved question history.

  • 2–5 players
  • 150–240 min
  • Complexity 4.1/5

For 2 players

Rules assistant for 18 India

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Answers come from the official rulebook, with the page to check.

18 India is a board game released in 2023 for 2–5 players and 150–240 minutes per game. It was designed by Anthony Fryer, Michael Carter, Nick Neylon, and John Harres and its main mechanics are Stock Holding.

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About the game

India's railroad history began in 1837 when The Red Hill Railway used the country's first steam-powered locomotive to carry stone for road work to Madras, modern-day Chennai. In 1845, India's first railway was incorporated, the Madras Railway. Sixteen years later, on a warm April day in 1853, a 14-carriage train carrying 400 passengers was hauled 21 miles by three steam locomotives - the Sahib, Sindh, and Sultan - and passenger railway service was thus initiated in India. From there, as they say, the rest is history, and India today has the world's fourth-largest railway network. 18 India is an operational railroad game for 2 to 5 people that plays in about 3 hours. The game is inspired by 1829 Mainline by Francis Tresham, and while the venerable Mr. Tresham created some novel mechanics for that game, many of them are not ideal for players that eschew in-game randomness. In 18 India, those random elements are transformed into an amazing level of pre-game variability, which gives each session of the game a different character.

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  • GMT Games

Questions and answers

18 India supports 2–5 players according to the catalogue. This range comes from the publisher’s listed player count, so the game can be set up for any group size within it. Some setups, rules and scoring details may still vary by player count, so check your edition’s rulebook for the exact configuration.