Great Designers Series, The: Kanban Driver's Edition

The setting for the game Kanban: Driver’s Edition is an assembly line. The players are ambitious managers who are trying to impress the board of directors in order to achieve as high a position as possible in the company and secure their careers. With promotions come advantages at the factory, such as more space to store precious materials and greater prestige to accelerate your ascent. Through solid management, you must strive to shine next to your peers. You need to manage suppliers and supplies, improve automobile parts, innovate — anything to stay on the cutting edge, or getting your hands greasy on the assembly line in order to boost production. You must exercise wisdom in choosing which projects you should start, selecting only those that will give you the upper hand and shunning those that will bog you down or cause the unthinkable — failure — which would diminish you in the eyes of the board.

Components:

40 Custom-Shaped wooden cards

Double sided board

16-page Rulebook

1 player board

7 discs to track shifts and training

1 pink worker pawn

1 pink cylinder to track the week count

12 kanban cards to order parts

32 CEO goal cards

7 blueprints x 5 models

43 seat tiles (23 red and 20 in player colors)

12 factory goal tiles

5 kanban tiles for cars demand

16 plaque award tiles

15 book tiles

12 wild cube tiles

6 final score tiles