How to Play Pan Am

Pan American World Airways defined a generation of accessible, stylish air travel. In Pan Am The Game, from Funko Games, you’ll take control of a fledgling airline and turn it into a business empire over the course of four decades. Do you have what it takes to go up against Pan Am? Becca Scott shows you the ropes in this edition of How to Play!

[ianwng]

4 years later this video is still helpful. thank you, becca.

[kimchang]

We played this last night and it was great. Took about an hour to learn with watching this video and going through the instructional booklet. We had the Max of 4 players with kids both age 9 and 13 that loved the challenge and complexity.

I believe a missed concept of this instructional is that each player is actually a private airline owner...thus your own fleet and hanger on your personal board. You, the private airline is trying your best to make your airline be profitable and ultimately sell to Pan Am, the last "player" of each event.

Unlike Monopoly, the 7 events saves some time. Knowing when it will end is great to strategize your purchase in stocks.

Unlike Ticket to Ride, you're not trying to connect your planes to complete routes. You're playing against Pan Am trying to monopolize routes before you. The more airports and routes you own, the more income you earn so you can buy stocks. Also, the more you're able to sell your routes to Pan Am for profit.

Overall, is was very well thought out and we all loved it. This will be a go to game now for the kids for a while.

[drskelebone]

I think this might fall in the very shallow valley of "too complicated for most of my friends" and "exactly complicated enough for my brain to love."

[kpdubbs]

Can I just say how much I love how you "un-setup" the game while filming and then play it backward so it looks like you are setting it up.

[markthibault]

Great explanation. However, the event card 8:58 shows a De Havilland Twin Otter seaplane. I'm surprised the publisher couldn't have found a nice picture of an actual Pan-Am clipper like the Boeing 314, Martin M-130, etc. But, I'm an airplane geek who only notices such things...

[RaptorsBlood]

So happy I saw this before playing the first time also my kids did not like the whole player one is the player who flew on a plane last. With me being a pilot they said it’s unfair

[rexation]

IMHO, best game out of Prospero Hall since Disney Villainous

An excellent way to incorporate simple bidding, stock exchange, & route management under the guise of worker placement mechanics.

Thanks, Becca, for always keeping explanations clean, concise, and appropriately themed!!!

[WilliamBrothers]

Picked it up at Target. This video saved me about 2 hours of learning and set up.

[nightcatarts]

Yay! I hope you'll get a chance to do a Game The Game of this; it's a lot deeper than I expected of a Funko game, if I'm honest.
Also, well done for fitting all this into your zen corner, Becca.

[LordDrashanon]

I have missed these soo much, its good to see Becca again and I really hope this means we get some iteration of game the game soon.

[LoisHermo]

Not so complicated as it seems, one round is enough to grasp the idea. Superb tutorial

[DanielSolis]

Yay for using the term "moneys." :)

[Totihno]

There is a depiction error on 4:50. Engineers on the directives track are not removed during the resolution phase. They stay on the board and are assigned with priority access on the next engineer phase

[deanmuramoto]

It's awesome to see Becca Scott teaching a game! Becca it was really nice meeting you at Magic Worlds, it is probably the biggest event and only event I went to this year! Becca was really nice and very beautiful! Keep up the awesome videos!

[Sanderus]

This game is right up my board gaming alley. Medium complexity, highly competitive, allowing for some strategic and tactical thinking. Excellent presentation.

[MichaelCutts]

I watched the Pan Am show over quarantine and it was very good!

[quentindeberdt]

Glad to see you back and thanks for the video.

[Maeyanie]

Given what happened to Pan Am, shouldn't the person with the most stock in the 6th round and least in the 7th win?

[StilltheApllyon]

"Hello. I need an old school stewardess costume for this video that"

"Cash up front. No returns."

"No, no. It's not that kind of"

"Yeah, yeah. No returns."

[Roberto-kuou]

I love watching Becca's tutorial videos.