Rivers, Roads & Railroads

Rivers, Roads & Railroads is an updated version of a classic

Rivers, Roads & Railroads is an updated version of a classic that can be played three ways. The game consists of tiles only, as you see in the picture above. You will need a sizable surface to play on as the cards are approximately 2" X 2" and the tiles can take off in any direction when you add curves. Each new piece that is laid must have a connection to each pathway that is already in play, river, road, or railroad and any combination. Some tiles will continues paths, some will end a path, others will start a new one. And so the game goes on.

Object:
Make the longest connected path of highway, railroad track, and waterway that you can.

Set up:
Each player takes 10 tiles and places them face up at his spot. 

Play:
Players take turns drawing one tile and playing one tile, until someone is stumped and cannot add any more, which ends the game.


Try this:

• Spin the card in-hand while trying to decide which direction it goes.
• Place a few tiles in the drawing pile at a time so that each piece can be flat on the table (would take up too much room to put them all out at once). Have the individual pick up the piece from the flat surface where it is, not pull it to the edge of the table to pick up.
• Start by building a pathway to teach the rules. "Yes, this piece would work here because..."   "No, this piece will not work here because..." Then move to "Could this piece go here?" "Why?" "Why not?"
• Work on visual discrimination, visual closure, figure ground, manual dexterity, in-hand manipulation, spatial relations
  
  In the box: 140 tiles
   

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