Rules
It’s against the law to build housing or transit in this wealthy neighborhood. Remove single-family housing limits to let citizens build, making the neighborhood more affordable and diverse. Then connect new buildings with streetcar lines of your own color to score points.
Materials
A board of 52 hexagonal spaces as shown
52 houses (13 each in 4 colors)
64 building cubes (16 each in the same colors)
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, the first player Draws 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.
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
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
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
2 lines x -10 = -20
Total 62