Trial by Trolley

What is Trial by Trolley

In Trial by Trolley, one player acts as the Trolley Operator and must choose where to send a murderous, out of control, trolley. Every other player at the table plays cards and argues in order to convince the operator to spare their lives and condemn everyone on the other track to a gruesome death-by-trolley.

Each round, one player will act as the trolley conductor. This person will be the judge, and will choose which track the trolley will murder.

Each other player is divided evenly among teams, and each player(s) will have a role for the round.

To begin, one player will draw 3 angelic tracks, choose one to play to the table, and then randomly reveal a 2nd angelic track from the deck to add to the track. Another player will draw 3 demonic tracks, and choose to add one to the opposing teams track, attempting to sabotage them, and spare their own tracks. Finally, player(s) will draw track modifiers to place on any track card on the table. They can play on their own tracks, to sway the judge, or they may play on their opponents, to further sway the judge into murdering their opponent's track.

Game details

Players

3–13

Age

+14

Duration

90 min

Difficulty

Light

Type

Board game

Year

2020

Mechanics

Hand Management · Player Judge · Simultaneous Action Selection

Categories

Mature / Adult · Party Game

Designer

Scott Houser

Publisher

Skybound Tabletop · 999 Games · Explosm Games · Gameology (Gameology Romania)