The player can also choose to speed up or slow down more than 1 for a cost of one coal for each increase or decrease of 1 above the free increment. At the start of their turn, a player can increase or decrease their speed by 1 for free. The red wheel on each boat indicates its current speed, which starts at 1, the speed of the Mississippi current. The initial river tile is placed in the center of the table, and the other 11 tiles are shuffled and placed face down. 1 special die (straight ahead, turn left, turn right)Įach player is given a paddlewheeler, which is placed on the start tile (the ship of the youngest player in space #1, then moving clockwise around the table.) The speed of all boats is set to 1 and the coal is set to 6.

12 hex grid river tiles (one being a start tile).

Five plastic steamboats with a numbered red paddlewheel (speed indicator) and a numbered black paddlewheel (coal indicator).

Mississippi Queen is a game for 3–5 players in which each is a paddlewheeler captain involved in a race to New Orleans. The game was also published in English by Rio Grande Games, and won several awards including the Spiel des Jahres. Mississippi Queen is a German board game published by Goldsieber Spiele in 1997 that simulates a paddlewheel race down the Mississippi River in 1871.

How to play mississippi queen