''1835'' is a railroad operations and share trading

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in the

18XX 18XX is the generic term for a series of board games that, with a few exceptions, recreate the building of rail transport, railroad corporations during the 19th century; individual games within the series use particular years in the 19th century a ...

series, designed and published by

Hans im Glück Hans im Glück is a German board and card game publisher. Though many of their own games are language-independent they themselves publish only printings for the domestic market which include only German-language rules; English-language printings ...

in 1990.

Gameplay

The game board covers most of

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. It was the first 18XX game use the concept of 'minor' companies, which operated like the normal stock companies (with some limitations) but are owned by a single person like a private company.

Publication history

''1835'' was designed and published by

in 1990 and distributed in the United States by

Mayfair Games Mayfair Games was an American publisher of board game, board, card game, card, and roleplaying games that also licensed German-style board game, Euro-style board games to publish them in English. The company licensed worldwide English-language pub ...

Reviews

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