Winsome Games is a small, specialist publisher of board games about railroads and trains.
We design, develop and sometimes license these train games to larger firms.
Some of our better known games are:
TransAmerica
TransEuropa
Age of Steam
Railroad Tycoon
Volldampf
We offer a numbered set of our new train games at Spiel in Essen every October.
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The 2008 Winsome Games Essen Set is a set of our 4 new games/expansions:
Preu§ische Ostbahn
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/35285
This stand alone game comes in the standard plastic Winsome box.
Gulf, Mobile & Ohio
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/36424
This stand alone game comes in the standard plastic Winsome box.
Age of Steam: Texas, Oklahoma & New Mexico expansion
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/36481
This expansion requires the base game and comes in the standard plastic Winsome box.
Wabash Cannonball Expansion - Erie Railroad
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/36607
This expansion requires the base game, is bagged and comes in the Age of Steam: Texas, Oklahoma & New Mexico expansion box.
For years, we have offered 80 numbered sets at Essen in Germany in October. We are doing that again: a set must be reserved in advance and picked up at the Winsome Games stand (Hall 10, Stand 10-66) between 10am and noon on Thursday, October 23, 2008. The cost of a set is 80 EUROS.
All 80 of these numbered sets are ALREADY RESERVED.
Many Americans have expressed a desire to obtain a Winsome Games Essen Set. This year we will try to meet their needs by producing a 2008 US ESSEN SET.
The US Essen Set is unnumbered.
The US Essen Set has only English Language rules, nothing in German.
Aside from these differences, the US Essen Set is largely the same as the traditional Essen Set.
Using the website http://www.xc.com, 80 Euros on July 7, 2008 is $125.25
I am fixing the US ESSEN SET at the US Dollar price of US$120.00
The tireless JC Lawrence has again offered to assist us in Fulfillment.
He accepts Paypal and will ship to Foreign countries!
Much less conveniently, but faster and cheaper, US residents may
order directly from Winsome Games.
ORDERING FROM Winsome Games:
We only accept US Postal Money Orders for $130 ($120+$10s/h) sent before September 15, 2008. The $130 US Postal Money Order must be made out to and sent to:
John Bohrer
515 W Hutchinson Ave, #6
Pittsburgh, PA 15218
When we receive your $130 USPMO, we will send a confirming email.
When we ship your Set shortly after Essen, we will again send an email.
We only ship to US addresses using boxed US Priority Mail with Delivery Confirmation.
Customers will receive their US Essen Sets directly from Winsome Games by November 7, 2008. Some may be received as early as October 31. We will send the sets off in the order that we received the $130 US Postal Money Orders.
We will sell only 1 US Essen Set per customer.
ORDERING FROM the tireless JC Lawrence:
JC accepts Paypal!
JC ships anywhere!
JC will have the US Essen Sets in his hands by November 21 and will begin the fulfillment on his own schedule. He also has a day job!
JC's prices are a bit higher, as he has overheads like the BGG commission, shipping from PA to CA, bubble mailers, etc.
JC's prices:
$130+$15s/h to US addresses
$130+$25s/h to Foreign addresses
$130+$5s/h for pickup in the San Jose, California area.
Please visit his website for more information and to order sets:
http://kanga.nu/~claw/blog/2008/07/07/game-order/winsome-games-2008-essen-collection-order-line/
We here at Winsome plan to do a special print run of just the Wabash Cannonball: Erie Railroad expansion in 2009. Please DO NOT feel the need to order the US Essen Set just to get that expansion. We have no plans for a further print run of Preu§ische Ostbahn or Gulf, Mobile & Ohio or the Age of Steam: Texas, Oklahoma & New Mexico expansion.
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Winsome Games
John Bohrer, Owner
515 West Hutchinson Ave
Suite #6
Pittsburgh, PA 15218-1347
USA
(412) 244-0599
Our Email address is winsome@fyi.net