Here is the game info in case you haven’t heard from the Mayfair website:
Automobile
Automobile™ carries you back to the birth of America’s car industry, when inventors, craftsmen, and entrepreneurs created a wild array of marvels and misfortunes. You step into this rough, romantic trade hoping to create a fortune by building and selling cars. Tapping the talents of men like Ford, Sloan, Kettering, Howard, Durant, and Chrysler, you balance quality versus quantity, mass production versus premium branding, and innovation versus distribution and aggressive sales. Lose your balance and you go bust. Strike the best balance, shift the right gears to best your rivals, and you’ll be rich.
You might even win. So, pull up your sleeves and start making cars!
Rich and brilliantly balanced, Automobile offers 3-5 players aged 13 and older 2 hours of great flavor and fun.
Components
- A full-color game board
- 140 automobile tiles
- 40 salesman tiles
- 48 factory tiles
- 16 demand tiles
- 6 character tiles
- 40 wood innovation cubes
- 50 wood loss cubes
- 9 wood special markers
- 10 wood player tokens
- Colorful paper money
- Simple, full color rules
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6 Comments
Psst. It’s “bated breath.” Baited breath suggests you’ve been snacking on worms.
Hahahahaha! I was just about to bust Elliott’s chops on that one but Tyler beat me to the punch. Then again, Elliott has a bit of an odd taste in cuisine so he may have been snacking on worms… 🙂
mmmmm….worms…..
Well, Tyler, you are correct…. but this article shows that my husband was not necessarily wrong in using “baited”… It would appear that it may become the “Norm” form for this phrase in time to come.
http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-bai1.htm
Just FYI of course. :o)
I’ll take a stab that Elliott may have travelled into the future at some point but that Automobiles was slated for a 2010 release.
I hope you meant 11/1/10 not 11/1/11!