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Blue Skies

By: Rio Grande Games

Type: Boxed Game

Product Line: Board Games - Assorted (Rio Grande Games)

MSRP old price: $39.95


Product Info

Title
Blue Skies
Publisher
Category
Sub-category
Author
Joseph Huber
Publish Year
2020
Dimensions
9x12.5x2.25"
NKG Part #
2147841068
MFG. Part #
RGG594
Type
Boxed Game
Age Range
14 Years and Up
# Players
2 - 5 Players
Game Length
45 Minutes

Description

Blue Skies is fast-playing game for 2-4 players from the designer of Caravan and Burger Joint.

The year is 1979, and the U.S. government has just deregulated the airline industry, opening it to competition in terms of fares, routes, and the airline companies themselves. You represent a new airline that’s trying to set up business in the U.S., but you have an entire country open to you, so where will you set up shop and how can you profit more than the other newcomers to ensure that you survive?

In Blue Skies, the game board presents players with thirty airports in thirty cities. Each airport has four gates, with you using 2-4 gates depending on the number of players. To set up, draw airport demand cards from the deck to seed airports with passengers. Whenever you place passengers on the board, draw from a bag that initially contains 100 red cubes and 25 green cubes; for each airport, continue drawing until you draw a red cube, then redistribute passengers at the open gates of that airport as evenly as possible.