Roads & Boats is a long, strategic game in which each player builds up a civilization. From humble beginnings (a woodcutter, a stonemason) their economies expand to include trucks, steamships, and even a stock exchange.

Unlike most games, however, the emphasis is not on warfare, population growth, city or state-building, but on logistics, or rather: on transport, with each player trying to outcompete others in building roads, constructing factories, breeding geese and donkeys, inventing gold mines etcetera. but beware! there is no concept of territory in the game, so anything you build can be used by any other player!

Each player starts the game with three donkeys, a pile of wooden boards, a number of stones and two geese. With these few resources, you try to build such diverse things as woodcutters, roads, boats, mines, a stock exchange... but beware! There is no concept of territory in this game: you cannot own land, nor buildings, so the things you build can be used by any other player...

This third edition of Roads & Boats contains wooden transporters in the shape of donkeys, wagons, trucks, rafts, rowing-boats and steamers.

The game can be played by two to four players, but it can also be used as a one-person puzzle. Material for a fifth and a sixth player is available in the &Cetera expansion.

120 wooden transporters
75 walls
8 wooden disks
193 wonder bricks
4 home markers
4 research tables
32 research markers
4 player aids
18 mines
18 plastic bags
1 sheet of stickers
140 hexagonal tiles
Plastic cover sheet
Non-permanent marker
4 sheets of goods markers
Two-part gameboard
Phase chart marker
Rule book
Scenario book