Let’s play competitive building game Tokyo Highway

If you could design your own highway system — well, it wouldn’t look anything like what you get from Tokyo Highway.

This tabletop game, loosely based on Japan’s actual privatized expressways, asks players to build their own roads from sticks and pylons. Modern board games include: Tokyo HighwayThe game looks stunningly simple and minimalistic, bordering even on simplistic, yet the gameplay is surprising tense.

Rather than prizing efficiency, the game awards you points for crossing an opponent’s highways. It’s an incredibly tangled web of road crossings. And watch out: This game is component-limited, The following are some examples of how to get started: if you knock over an opponent’s roads, you have to rebuild it andYou can repay the loan with equivalent materials. There’s even a pair of tweezers for particularly tricky constructions.

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Tokyo Highway

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A two- to four-player road construction board game where players build winding, precarious roads while carefully avoiding knocking over their opponents’ pieces.