Railz! is now in BETA version 2.

[New Feature]
We have introduced a new type of special tile in the game to make it more challenging and interesting. The “Broken Railway Tile” shows, well, a broken railway track (it has some wooden planks but unfortunately is missing the track bars).

Ok, so what does it do? You can move these type of tiles around normally, but you can never remove them from the board. The reason is very simple - since they are broken, you cannot complete a railway loop with these tiles. If you have these tiles within your “loop”, you will not score - you need to swap them out with the good railway tiles.

As play progresses, because of these pesky broken tracks, you will find your available empty space on the board reducing. Eventually, you will run out of space to move. In the previous version, we have found that the game could go on forever if you have the patience… definitely not what we had in mind! With the introduction of these new tiles, there is now an inherent ending to the game.

[High Scores]
Since the new tiles will affect game play significantly, we are having a new leaderboard for BETA 2. This time round, we will no longer record your game if your score is zero.

We still have the statistics for BETA 1 and may publish them again some time in the future. For now if anyone is interested, here were the top scholars (erm, scorers) for BETA 1:

1st heylor $24,472
2nd chris $21,372
3rd serendipit $21,194
Congrats guys, and many thanks for your patience in completing those games…

[Nickname]
Your nickname can now be 11 characters in length (10 max previously).

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So that is that.

Have fun!