Manual — Whistle Stop: Rocky Mountains Expansion

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WHISTLE
STOP
ROCKY MOUNTAINS
EXPANSION

Spanning 3,000 miles with peaks of 14,000 feet, the Rocky Mountains
represent a massive obstacle for your railroad company. How will you
build your track through to the West Coast? The Rockies present some
significant challenges, but also offer significant incentives. It will take
clever planning and a lot of determination to outpace your competitors.

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SETUP

Use this setup instead
of the base game setup,
including the new
components from the
Rocky Mountains Expansion
as necessary.

1 Put the gameboard in
the center of the table
with the Rocky Mountains
Expansion boards inserted
in the middle of it.

2 On the turn track, place
1 whistle token per player
on the whistle space. Then
find the coal space with
a number of pawns that
matches the number of
players you have. Starting
with that space and
working down, place 2 coal
tokens per player on each
coal space. These might seem
like tall stacks with 4 or 5
players, but if you orient
the tokens the same way
they'll stack nicely.

3 Place the gold nuggets
(combine base game
and expansion nuggets) with
numbers facedown, along with
coal tokens, whistle tokens, and
resource tokens on one side of the board.

4 Create a stack of each railroad share type (include the Rocky Mountains
Expansion shares with the shares from the base game) on the side of the
board. Stack each type in numerical order with the number 1 share on top.

5 Shuffle the expansion Upgrades with the base game Upgrades, and
randomly choose six more than the number of players. For your first game,
it is recommended to include Dynamite Cart, Mining Complex, Mountain
Sheds, and Tunnel Network. For subsequent games, you might want to
always include 2 of those 4 Upgrades listed above and choose randomly for
the rest. For a greater challenge, choose all of your Upgrades randomly.

6 Place four of the chosen Upgrades faceup on the four marked positions on
the Expansion board, and put the rest to the side of the gameboard.

7 Shuffle the 15 end tiles (dark green tile back, from both the base game and
the Rocky Mountains Expansion). Place 8 tiles faceup in the leftmost column
on the game board, and put the other tiles back in the box.

Separate out the 24 special tiles (from both the base game and the Rocky
Mountains Expansion): 12 Town, 2 Coal Yard, 2 Trading Post,
2 Whistle Factory, 1 General Store, 1 Gold Mine, 1 Black Market, 1 Scrap Yard,
1 Supply Depot, 1 Switch Yard.

RESOURCE

TURN T

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TRACK
EAST COAST STOPS
RACK
SCORE TRACK

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Choose 1 Coal Yard, 1 Trading Post, 2 random Town tiles, 1 other random
special tile (not a Coal Yard, Trading Post, or Town) and 3 random ordinary
tiles (with or without stops on them). Randomly place these 8 tiles faceup
onto the board in the fourth column from the right.

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Choose 1 Coal yard, 2 random Town tiles, 1 random special tile, and 3
random ordinary train route tiles. Shuffle those 7 tiles and place them on
top of the westmost column of the Rocky Mountains Expansion board (each
space has a shaded hex on it).

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Randomly choose 9 ordinary train route
tiles (including the new tiles that have small
Whistle and Gold stops on them) and place
them randomly faceup into the rightmost
column and in the top and bottom
positions of the second column. Tiles
cannot be placed in an orientation that
results in the only continuing route going
backward. (See example at right.)

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Shuffle the remaining special and ordinary
tiles together. Place the stack of tiles
facedown near the board. Turn 3 tiles
faceup next to the stack.

Example of an invalid starting tile
setup, with a backward-only route.

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HOW TO USE THIS EXPANSION

Before playing with the Rocky Mountains Expansion, you should be familiar with the
base Whistle Stop game. If possible, play at least one game of Whistle Stop before
including the expansion.

While you can pick and choose elements of this expansion to include in your games,
we suggest including everything the first time you play so you get a feel of how all
the components work together. Afterwards, you may want to play with only some of
the expansion. All upgrades are compatible with the base game except for Dynamite
Cart, Mining Complex, Mountain Sheds, and Tunnel Network, which require the Rocky
Mountains Expansion gameboard.

All of the Rocky Mountains Expansion components have the circular Rocky
Mountains Expansion symbol on them.

PLACING A TILE ON THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS

To place a tile on the Rocky Mountains Expansion game board, you must spend a
coal or whistle token in addition to the normal cost for taking an action with your
train. The icons on the bottom of each space show the cost for placing a tile in
each of those spaces. Tokens spent for placing tiles here are returned to the supply
immediately.

When you place a tile in the mountains, you gain a reward based on the icons in the
center of the space: a rare resource of your choice, a rare resource of your choice and a
gold token, or the Upgrade that was in the space before you placed the tile. You gain
these Upgrades at no additional cost, and they are like normal Upgrades afterward. If
you gain a rare resource as a reward for placing a tile, take it immediately, before your
train moves into it, so that you may spend it in a newly placed Town you put down.

ROCKY MOUNTAINS EXPANSION TILES

When your train lands on a small circle whistle stop, gain a
whistle token.

When your train lands on a small circle gold nugget stop,
gain a gold nugget token.

When your train lands on a small circle comon resource stop,
gain a common resource of your choice (white, brown, or
gray).

When your train lands on this Rocky Top town, if you spend 1
white and 1 green resource, take the top Rocky Top railroad
share from the supply and gain 7 fame points. Otherwise,
lose 2 fame points.

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When your train lands on the Black Market, you may swap a
stock share for 1 gold token or 1 gold token for a stock share
of your choice. You may only choose shares in companies
that are currently on the board (including the new end tiles
below). Swapped shares are removed from the game.

When your train lands on the Scrap Yard, you may discard
one tile from your hand and either gain all resources and
tokens shown on that tile or 2 coal tokens.

When your train lands on the Supply Depot, gain 1 coal
token and 1 common resource of your choice.

When your train lands on the Switch Yard, you may
immediately move that train to any other unoccupied small
circle stop or special tile in the same column. If a small circle
stop is occupied by one of your trains, however, you may
move through it to another stop, using normal movement
rules.

When your train lands on one of these end tiles, spend the
resources shown to gain the fame points in the yellow star
and 1 share each in two different companies. Otherwise, lose
fame points in the red star.
The shares on these end tiles are available to swap using the
Safe Upgrade, the Deposit Box Upgrade, or the Black Market
tile.

When your train lands on Express Station, spend 2 whistle
tokens or 4 coal tokens to gain 2 fame points for each train
that isn't on the resource track, not counting this train.
For example, in a four-player game with 16 trains, if you land
your train on this end tile before anyone else moves a train
to the resource track and spend the tokens, you gain 30
fame points (15 trains for 2 points each).

When your last train lands on Last Stop, spend 2 whistle
tokens or 4 coal tokens to gain 25 fame points only if all of
your other trains are on the resource track. If you land here
with your last train and do not spend the 2 whistle tokens
or 4 coal tokens, gain 0 fame points. Only your last train may
land on Last Stop.

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ROCKY MOUNTAINS EXPANSION UPGRADES

When you place a train on the resource track, you may take a
share of your choice instead of the listed reward.

You may only take shares of companies currently shown on
the board.

Place a tile in the Rocky Mountains for 1 less coal. For
example, placing a tile on a green mountain space costs 1
coal instead of 2 coal or 1 whistle. Placing a tile on a brown
space is free instead of 1 coal.

Gain a fifth action spot on your player board that may only
be used with whistle tokens. You may use it immediately. You
may only use your fifth action with a whistle token; place
your whistle token on this Upgrade to record the action, like
any of your other four action spots.

You may take this action in any order (i.e., it does not have to
be taken after all of your other actions have been taken).

Whenever you place a tile in the mountains, gain 1 gold
token. If you obtain this Upgrade in the mountains, then gain
1 gold token immediately.

When you move a train either to, through, or from a tile in
the mountains, gain 1 coal token. If you obtain this Upgrade
in the mountains, then gain a coal token right away.

Spend a coal token to move one of your trains to another
existing stop (large or small) in the same column. If you move
to a stop with one of your trains on it, you may pass through
your train to another stop using normal movement rules.

Spend a coal token to discard a tile from your hand and gain
either 1 token or resource cube shown on the tile or receive 2
coal tokens.

Do not refill your hand until the end of your turn.

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Spend 1 whistle token to skip over any number of
contiguous empty mountain spaces (Rocky Mountains
Expansion board spaces with no hex tile on them) to end
at a stop anywhere in the mountains or adjacent to the
mountains. Mountain spaces containing an Upgrade are still
considered empty for this special movement. If you spent a
whistle token while gaining this Upgrade in the mountains,
you may use this Upgrade's effect right away.

Spend 1 whistle token to receive 2 whistle tokens.

PLAYTESTERS
The designer would like to thank the following playtesters: his wonderful wife,
Melissa Caputo, as well as Stephen Caputo, Sharon Caputo, Dedan Anderson,
Stephen Edwards, Jennifer Bautista, Nick Brown, Babak Namaziyan, Robert Mitchell,
Mark Sliwoski, Toni Alspach, Tony Grappin, Dan Calhoun, Sean Holmes, Alex Hanna,
Angela Chung, Mark Jackson, Eric Edens, Bay Chang, Franklin Kenter, and John
Brieger.

ABOUT THE DESIGNER
Scott Caputo is the designer of Völuspá, Kachina, and Sorcerer City. Scott is an active
member of the League of Gamemakers. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with
his wife and two sons.

ABOUT THE DEVELOPER
Ted Alspach has developed several games, including Werebeasts, New York Slice,
Ultimate Werewolf Inquisition, and Favor of the Pharaoh. Ted is also the designer of
Werewords, Suburbia, The Palace of Mad King Ludwig, Castles of Mad King Ludwig, and
One Night Ultimate Werewolf.

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Stephanie Gustafson has created artwork and graphic design for several amazing
games, including The Palace of Mad King Ludwig, Colony, America, and New York Slice.

FOR BEZIER GAMES
CEO: Ted Alspach
COO: Toni Alspach
App Developer: Jeremiah Maher
Q/A Manager: Bryon Quick
Licensing and Editorial Manager: Jeff Quick
Social Media Manager: Phoebe Wild
Graphic Designer: Jason Boles
Customer Support Manager: Ryan Moore
Trade Show Manager: Matt Ryan
Retail Show Support: Steve Samson
Photography: Tessa Williams
Site Manager: Carol Alspach

©2018 Bezier Games, Inc and Ted Alspach. Whistle Stop, Rocky Mountains Expansion, Bezier Games and their logos are trademarks
of Bezier Games, Inc.
Warning: This product contains small parts that can be swallowed and may not be suitable for use by children under 36 months.
THIS PRODUCT IS NOT A TOY.

Made in Shenzhen, China. Bezier Games, PO Box 730, Louisville, TN 37777 USA. info@beziergames.com

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CONTENTS

1 North Rocky Mountains
Expansion board

9 Upgrade tiles

2 Gold tiles

2 Ordinary Train Route tiles

1 South Rocky Mountains
Expansion board

4 Gold Nugget tokens

4 Whistle tiles

2 Town tiles

6 Rocky Top railroad shares

4 Special tiles

2 Common Resource tiles

5 End tiles
(dark green back)

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