In Cargo Mania, your objective is to fully load your locomotive with valuable cargo. The required crate value is shown at the bottom of your locomotive card. Using your shunter, you organize wagons, load them with the right goods, and couple them to your locomotive at just the right moment.
Careful planning is essential: each wagon you couple to your locomotive must match the letter or color of the previously coupled wagon. To overcome this limitation, make smart use of the wagons’ special abilities and create an efficient chain.
On your turn, choose one of four actions:
- Take all goods cards of one color or one letter from the station into your hand.
- Take a wagon from the station and couple it to your shunter. You may optionally activate the wagon’s effect.
- Move a wagon from your shunter to your locomotive. Discard cards from your hand matching the same letter or color equal to the number of white crates on the moved wagon.
- Discard any number of cards from your hand equal to the number of white crates on a wagon coupled to your shunter. Flip that wagon to its gray side and move it to your locomotive.
Be the first player whose coupled wagons exceed the required value of their locomotive with the total value of all white crates to win Cargo Mania.