Streetcar Suburb
Streetcar Suburb Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Overview
2 players | 15-30 minutes | ages 12+
Materials
- 1 board of 52 hexagonal spaces
- 52 houses (13 each in 4 colors)
- 64 building cubes (16 each in the same colors as houses)
- 2 colored crayons or markers (1 for each player) to draw streetcar lines
Setup
Place the houses on the board randomly.
Playing the Game
On the first turn of the game, Draw Streetcar Lines. Thereafter, on your turn Draw Streetcar Lines and Remove 1 Housing Limit.
The game ends when no housing limits are available to remove.
Drawing Streetcar Lines
Use your marker to draw streetcar lines on 2 adjacent grid lines.
- Each intersection may only connect to 1 color; different-colored lines may not touch.
- If there's no room to draw a second line after your first, just draw 1 line.
Example: Purple draws 2 adjacent lines near Red's existing lines.
Removing Housing Limits
Remove 1 house, representing a single-family housing limit. Keep it for yourself. You may remove any house, except houses next to buildings (stacks of cubes); flip these houses to show you can't remove them.
If any empty space neighbors exactly 3 houses, place a building there. The neighboring houses determine the new building's color and height:
- 2 houses of the same color: 2 cubes of that color
- 3 houses of the same color: 3 cubes of that color
- 3 houses of different colors: 1 cube of the missing 4th color
Example: Purple finishes their turn, removing 1 black house and placing 3 buildings.
Scoring
At the end of the game, each house you removed scores 1 point per cube of the same color connected to your lines. A cube connects to all lines touching its neighboring intersections, but counts only once per player. Each separate line of your color incurs a -10 point penalty. The highest score wins. If there is a tie, the highest score in a single color wins.
Purple's score with 2 separate lines:
| Color | Calculation | Points |
|---|---|---|
| Blue | 2 houses x 5 cubes | 10 |
| Black | 3 houses x 4 cubes | 12 |
| White | 6 houses x 8 cubes | 48 |
| Yellow | 2 houses x 6 cubes | 12 |
| Lines | 2 lines x -10 | -20 |
| Total | 62 |