They also place a miner on the scoring track and a wagon on each of the shipping tracks. Players each take a player board which has a spot to hold all of their camp and settlement markers. Investment and shipping bonus tiles are placed on the board in the appropriate spots. On this map, you randomly place terrain tiles on each map spot and flip over the ones next to the river.Įight investment cards are drawn and Boomtown is made up of random end game scoring tiles. If you are playing with two players, two of the tiles are flipped over and not used that game. You assemble the frame and then randomly build the map out of the river tile and other hex-based tiles. To start a game of Gold West you first have to build the board.

For the metal cylinders, each has a different number of sides so that you can tell them apart by touch as well as colour. The player colours are in colour blind friendly colours as are the resource cubes. It’s worth noting that a lot of work has been done to make this game colour blind and poor vision friendly.

One with cylinders in copper, gold and silver and another bag with cubes in green and black. There are also two bags of wooden resources. The wagons have a bit of silk screening on them. Also in each colour are a set of discs, small triangles for representing camps and settlements and three wagons. The wooden components include a miner shaped meeple in each player colour. These are the investment cards that have very clear iconography on them. These came in one of those resealable packages, which is great as I can just keep that and use it to store the cards. On the other side of the insert was a bigger baggie filled with wooden components and a small pack of hobbit-sized cards. It basically just divides the box into two sections. All of these were on one side of a pretty plain but serviceable cardboard insert. I always appreciate when companies include baggies in their games. Interestingly these all came pre-punched.Īlong with the board tiles, I also found a bunch of plastic baggies. It’s comprised of a four piece puzzle fit border and a bunch of hex-based map tiles. The main board for Gold West is just as thick, if not just a bit thicker. These are a stark contrast to the player boards. Under the player boards are some of the thickest cardboard punch boards I’ve ever seen. I am very much reminded of the boards from Terraforming Mars.

These are nothing more than thick cardstock. The game also includes four very thin player boards. The text is nice and large and easy to read and includes plenty of examples and graphics. It’s only fifteen pages long, with the last few pages just being a reference for the various investment cards included in the game. Gold West comes with a nice big rulebook. If you want to see what you get in a copy of Gold West be sure to check out our Gold West unboxing video. It plays two to four players in under 60 minutes. It was published in 2015 by Tasty Minstrel Games. What do you get in the board game Gold West? I received a review copy of Gold West from Tasty Minstrel Games. As an Amazon Affiliate, I earn from qualifying purchases. Using these links doesn’t cost you anything extra and it helps support this blog and podcast. Gold West the boardgame does something new and interesting with the classic mancala mechanic.Įxperience the gold rush in 1849 in this surprisingly quick abstract hidden gem.ĭisclosure: Some links in this post are affiliate links.

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