Oregon Trail: Journey to Williamette Valley Board Game
Item #: | 074647 |
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Grades: | 8-AD |
Product Description:
The ever-popular Oregon Trail game now in a board game version! Players compete to get their oxen, wagon, supplies, and family members across the board, from Independence, MO, to the Willamette Valley. As in the popular computer game, calamities regularly arise that must be dealt with! Each turn, players overturn new trail tiles (for a different board with every play), draw a calamity, take 3 actions (including moving, hunting, buying supplies, picking up hitchhikers, or selling supplies), draw a new market price card, resolve the calamity card, and feed their families. You only have so much room in your wagon, so you must decide what's most important food, medicine, winter clothing, weapons, or wagon parts. You will have to balance your supplies and your choices with your family's health and well-being as you strive to be the player with the most money at the end of the trip. 2-4 players. ~ Megan
Publisher Description:
Its 1844: You and your family have joined a wagon train in Independence, MO that is about to head to Willamette Valley to find your fortune in the West! Players will place tiles to discover the trails, rivers, forts, and towns ahead of them that they will move through to this new land. This scenic journey would almost be perfect if it wasnt for the disease, drowning, rattlesnakes and other hazards that will plague you along the way. Youll need to hunt for food to avoid starvation, and with limited wagon space, you may need to choose between supplies and family members to keep moving along the trail. Until, eventually, you find yourself safe, in Willamette Valley. Relive your fond memories of one of the worlds most beloved computer games as you race your friends to victory in The Oregon Trail: Journey to Willamette Valley. For 2-4 players, ages 14 and up.
1) You only start with $300 and have no way of earning more money unless you buy winter clothes for $200 and then sell them back for $400. Look you just made $200 and it would have never happened like that on the Oregon Trail.
2) You can hunt, but unless you purchase a shotgun you have little chance of getting something good. You can use a compass to aim but that costs you $50.
3) You can travel a long way on a road and still only need to use one cube of food for the whole trip.
4) You can pick up hitchhikers and get $400 if you finish with the hitchhiker but who ever heard of families picking up hitchhikers on the Oregon trail?
5) If you don't have winter clothes you can't make it on the trip because there are a lot of winter tiles.
6) There are too many forts and towns for 1848. And the instructions don't say if you restock the stuff in the fort when purchased or if it is no longer available.
7) The age range says 14+ this is a joke. my 7 year old can play it just fine, it is way easier than many other games.
I think my biggest beef with the game is that it is too simplistic and doesn't really give you a feel for the trials of the Oregon Trail like the computer game. I am working on my own rules for the game using their stuff to modify it to make it more like the Oregon Trail Computer game.
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