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Thurn and Taxis
BGG rank
BGG #615
BGG rating
7.1

Thurn and Taxis

2006

Rules assistance for Thurn and Taxis

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

  • 2–4 players
  • 60 min
  • 10+
  • Complexity 2.3/5
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Thurn and Taxis is a board game released in 2006 for 2–4 players, 60 minutes per game, and ages 10 and up. It was designed by Andreas Seyfarth and Karen Seyfarth and its main mechanics are Hand Management, Set Collection, and Network and Route Building.

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About the game

In Thurn & Taxis, players build post office routes across Bavaria and the regions around, collecting bonus points in various ways. The board shows a map of all the cities, with roads leading from each one to some of its neighbors. There are various colored regions around the board, most with two or three cities, and a large region with all the Bavarian cities in the center. Players build postal routes from city to city to city so that each city is adjacent to the next city on the route and there is a road connecting these two cities. Each route must consist of at least three cities. Players may build only one route at a time. Routes are represented by melded city cards arranged in the order of the route. Players start with a supply of 20 post offices in their color, a carriage house card, and a player aid card. The board is populated with bonus tiles, carriage cards and city cards. On a turn, a player will draw a card from a display of six, face-up city cards (or the top of the face-down deck) and meld one card, either starting a new route or adding to the current one. If after adding to the route, the length of the route is at least three cities, the player may declare it finished and score it. The player may, depending on the length of the route and which cities are in the route, place post offices in the cities, collect bonus tiles, and acquire a higher value carriage. Optionally, the player may receive support from one postal official in the form of drawing a second card, melding a second card, refreshing the six city card display, or acquiring a higher value carriage than the route length when finishing a route. Once a route is scored, the city cards of that route are discarded, and the player begins a new route on their next turn. When a player exhausts their supply of post offices or acquires a value 7 carriage, the end of the game is triggered. Play continues until the player who is last in turn order finishes their turn, and the game ends. Players score points for their highest valued carriage and bonus tiles, then lose points for unplaced post offices. The player with the most points wins. The fact that you *must* add at least one city to your route each turn or lose the whole route gives the game an enjoyable planning element.

Publishers

  • Smart Ltd
  • Hobby World
  • Schmidt Spiele
  • 999 Games
  • MINDOK
  • Albi
  • Rio Grande Games
  • Lautapelit.fi

Questions and answers

Thurn and Taxis supports 2–4 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.