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1887

1887 2027

10.0 /10
BGG rating
3–4
Players
180–240
Minutes
14
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About the Game

How will you insert yourself into a corporate structure, extract wealth, contribute to its collapse, and escape before that happens? The game is set in Argentina in 1887, during the historical boom of British-financed railway construction that swept the Pampas in the 1880s. It plays out under the shadow of the 1890 Baring Crisis, the financial panic that nearly took down the London banking system when Argentina's debts came due.

Players are building chains of ownership. London finance houses fund construction companies, which in turn seize control of the railways that lay track. Money and control flow down the chain by choice, and danger climbs back up when something goes wrong. The player with the most valuable portfolio when the game ends wins.

—description from the designer

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refreshed Oct 16, 2026
On LayerUp since
Oct 16, 2026