Railroad Tiles: Lakes Expansion
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7.8

Expansion for Railroad Tiles

Railroad Tiles: Lakes Expansion

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  • 30 min
  • 8+
  • Complexity 2.0/5

Rules assistant for Railroad Tiles: Lakes Expansion

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Railroad Tiles: Lakes Expansion is an expansion for Railroad Tiles released in 2025 for 1–4 players, 30 minutes per game, and ages 8 and up. It was designed by Lorenzo Silva and Hjalmar Hach and its main mechanics are Tile Placement, Pattern Building, and Connections.

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About the game

Your goal is to build Lakes and place Ferries in them to score points. Lakes also have another purpose: you can send a route into the lake side of a tile to create a Harbor (a bit like Canal End tokens work in the Canals Expansion), and all routes that are connected to the same Lake via Harbors are also connected to each other... basically, Lakes act as big Stations! Another special feature of the Lake Expansion also lies in the way Ferries are placed. At the end of each round, when you look at the active Placement tokens and place pawns accordingly, you must also look at each one of your Lakes: if you have more Harbors than Ferries in a certain Lake, you may place 1 Ferry pawn for free on any empty Ferry pin point until you have an equal number of Ferries and Harbors in that Lake. You score 1 point +1 point for each Ferry in the same Lake, up to a maximum of 3 Prestige points (they have a lower point limit than other pawns, which can be worth up to 5 points each, but you also place them for free on top of those coming from the 2 Placement tokens, instead of in place of 1 of them). Like all expansions, the Lake Expansion comes with a few Objectives as well: for example, the Fishermen's Island must be reachable by at least 3 Traveler pawns, while the Hydroelectric Plant must be part of a closed Lake with no open sides. —description from the publisher

Editions

  • Railroad Tiles: Lakes ExpansionenHorrible Guild2025
  • Дорожные работы: ОзёраruGaGa Games, Horrible Guild2026
  • Railroad Tiles: Espansione LaghiitCranio Creations2025

Questions and answers

Railroad Tiles: Lakes Expansion supports 1–4 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.