FAQs for Game

What's the purpose of the game?
How do I earn coins?
What is XP needed for?
How do I invite friends to play Lucky Train?
How do I add stops to, or extend, routes?
What is the Engineer Finder?
What are Local Routes?
What are Cross-County Routes?
How does Posting to Your Wall work when adding a stop?
What is a "Stops Bonus"?
Where can I find some stats information on a train?
Why do I want to upgrade my train(s)?
How do I upgrade my trains?
I don't see any trains on the way to my county, what do I do?
How do I Sell a train?
What do buildings do?
How do I know if a building can generate a rare passenger?
How do I purchase buildings?
How do I rearrange my county?
How do I decorate my county?
Some of my train invitations disappeared on my Facebook invitations page, what do I do?
How do I send passengers to the station?
How do I expand my county?
How do I get and access my second county?
How do I take a screen shot?
What do buildings do?
What do the stars in the upper left corner of some store items mean?
What is Instant Fuel?
What are Tasks?
Where can I check out Achievements?
Why can't I add any more friends?
Can I remove or rearrange stops on a route?
Can my friends remove me from their train routes?
What if I don't have enough passengers?
How does the Passenger Transfer work?
What happens to my train upgrade if my friend upgrades the train again?
Can I lock my personal routes so others can't upgrade it?
What happens to my train upgrade if my friend upgrades the train again?
Can I lock my personal routes so others can't upgrade it?
How do I enter Full Screen? What happens if it freezes?
How do I view my train schedule?
How can I tell where my trains are?
How do I report technical issues?
Can I visit another player's county?
Is there a Leaderboard / Scoreboard?
What is the Baron Wheel? How can I get better bonuses from him?
How do I send gifts to my friends?
How do I get Lucky Bucks?
How do I report technical issues?
What's the purpose of the game?
Send trains to friends all over the world while building your very own thriving county!
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How do I earn coins?
Passengers pay fares when they board your trains. When a train arrives at your station, load your trains with passengers and send the trains to your friends!
The better the train and longer the train route, the more coins you earn! You can earn coins quicker by upgrading trains. Purchase and upgrade buildings to produce better passengers that pay you higher fares to earn more coins!
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What is XP needed for?
Earn XP by sending passengers on your trains! Use your XP to level up! You will also unlock new gift items as you level up!
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How do I invite friends to play Lucky Train?
Each friend on your train becomes a stop on your train's route.
There are three ways to get your friends playing Lucky Train:
Create new train routes with friends. A new route and train will be instantly created for each invite that you send!
You can add friends to existing train routes and they can join in the fun by accepting your request!
Click on the "Invite Friends" tab at the top of the game window and an invitation will be sent through Facebook that encourages friends to play Lucky Train. There is also a "Click to Search" field near the bottom so you can locate a friend easily!
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How do I add stops to, or extend, route(s)?
Lengthen your routes by adding friends as stops. To add friends click on the train tile in the schedule, located at the bottom of the Lucky Train screen, and then click on the "Add a Stop" button in the Train Details panel. This option is available to anyone on the route. The longer the route, the more coins everyone earns!
After clicking on the "Add a Stop" button, you can also post a general request to your wall. Friends who respond to your wall post will be added to the route!
If a route has a pending invitation, you cannot add another friend until the pending invitation has been accepted. You can remove a pending route invitation if you are either the route owner or the person who originally sent the invitation. You cannot add friends to Sam's, Allison's, or the Baron's routes.
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What is the Engineer Finder?
The Engineer Finder adds a random Lucky Train player to your route. You will not need to send Facebook Requests to use engineer finder. NOTE: This feature is only for new users to help them get started with the game and get the ball rolling. It will not appear for current or advanced players.
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What are Local Routes?
Local Routes are train routes that only travel between your county, The Baron's county, Sam's county, and Allison's County. You do not need to send out Facebook game invitations to build Local Routes as it is a shorter route. However, passengers pay you fewer coins and experience points to travel on Local Routes.
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What are Cross-Country Routes?
Cross-Country routes are train routes that can extend to anyone on Facebook. You can invite a friend through Facebook to join a Cross-Country route. Once they accept your invitation, another player can be added as a stop. Cross-Country routes cannot include The Baron, Sam or Allison.
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How does Posting to Your Wall work when adding a stop?
You can choose the "Post to Your Wall" option to easily broadcast to your friends that you want them to be added to a route. Players who respond to the wall post will be automatically added.
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What is a "Stops Bonus"?
As you add stops to a route, distance is added to the route and its "Stops Bonus"" increases. Passengers pay you more coins to travel on longer routes with more stops. A "Stops Bonus" multiplies a passengers coin fare. For instance if you load a train with a 10 stop bonus, each passenger pays you 10 times their normal fare.
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Where can I find some stats information on a train?
Click on any train and on top of the picture of the owner of the train, you will see a gold star. Scroll your mouse over it to find stats on how many round trips the train has taken and how many total coins it has earned.
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Why do I want to upgrade my train(s)?
Train upgrades help you earn more coins by carrying more passengers and traveling faster. Train routes have a set distance based on the number of stops, or friends on a train route.
Upgraded trains help you complete the route in less time and will return to your county more frequently. Longer trains allow you load more passengers and collect more fares on each roundtrip.
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How do I upgrade my trains?
To upgrade a train select one from the schedule along the bottom of the game window. Click the Upgrade button in the bottom right of the Train details panel. Select a train upgrade in the Train Upgrade screen.
Upgrading your trains will help you complete routes quicker and earn more coins for each roundtrip!
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I don't see any trains on the way to my county, what do I do?
To send trains to your county you must create a new train route by clicking "Create Train Routes" (blue train icon). You can also ask a route owner to re-start an inactive route so that it will return to your county.
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How do I Sell a train?
Click on the Upgrade button to enter the train inventory display. Put your mouse over the train you would like to sell and the Sell button will appear on the bottom of the portrait. Click it to sell your train!
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What do buildings do?
Buildings generate passengers for your trains. The more valuable the building, Better buildings generation more valuable passengers.
There are two ways to acquire valuable buildings:
Purchase them from the Store by clicking on the Store button in the top right of the game. Once you have reached the store, click on a building that you wish to purchase.
After you have purchased a building, you can upgrade it by sending a set number of passengers to the Train Depot. You can see your upgrade progress for each building by hovering your mouse over it. Once a building is ready, go into the store and an "Upgrade" button will appear beneath it. Click on it. Click once more on the "Confirm" button and you'll get an upgraded building!
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How do I know if a building can generate a rare passenger?
Some buildings have a chance of generating rare passengers that give bonus coins and/or xp! Click on the "Build" button and look for any building that has a star in the upper left corner of it. Scroll your mouse over the building to see the normal character it produces, and then scroll your mouse over the star to see what rare passenger it also can produce!
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How do I purchase buildings?
Click on the Store button in the top right of the game window. Once you have reached the store, click on a building that you wish to purchase and place it in your county.
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How do I rearrange my county?
To rearrange your county:
Click on the Build button in the upper right hand corner of your screen
Click on the item you wish to move
A series of icons will appear, click on the arrow/directional button
Place your item wherever you like!
To clear your county:
Click on the Build button in the upper right hand corner of your screen
Click on the Bulldozer icon
Click on OK
To rapidly place decorations into your inventory one at a time:
Click on the Build button in the upper right hand corner of your screen
Click on the Inventory Tool button
Click on any decoration in your county you would like to place in your inventory
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How do I decorate my county?
Click on the Store button in the top right of the game window. Once you have reached the store, click on the decoration tab. Find a decoration that you wish to purchase and place it in your county.
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How do I send passengers to the station?
Click on the buildings that have passengers ready to send them to the station! You can choose to send all the passengers ready, or just one passenger at a time. Toggle the Single/Multiple Passenger Collect button on the top right corner of your screen to choose between the two options!
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Some of my train invitations disappeared on my Facebook invitations page, what do I do?
All train invitations are stored inside the game. You can manage all train requests within the game even if train invitations are missing from the Facebook invitations page.
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What do buildings do?
Buildings generate passengers for your trains. The more valuable the building, Better buildings generation more valuable passengers.
There are two ways to acquire valuable buildings:
Purchase them from the store by clicking on the "Build" button in the top right of the game. Once you have reached the store, click on a building that you wish to purchase.
After you have purchased a building, you can upgrade it by sending a set number of passengers to the Train Depot. You can see your upgrade progress for each building by hovering your mouse over it. Once a building is ready, go into the store and an "Upgrade" button will appear beneath it. Click on it. Click once more on the "Confirm" button and you'll get an upgraded building!
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How do I expand my county?
Click on the arrow buttons near the edge of your county. A window will appear that will give you the option to expand by paying coins or Lucky Bucks. The coin purchase options are locked at certain player levels.
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How do I get and access my second county?
At level 15, you will unlock the ability to own a second county! Click on the world map icon next to the name of your county on the top center of the page. You will see the second county and after you purchase it, you will be able to enter it and decorate it. You can switch between either county whenever you like!
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How do I take a screen shot?
Click on the camera icon located on the upper right corner of the game to take a screen shot of your county. It will go through a Facebook approval process and then be added to your Facebook photo album.
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What do the stars in the upper left corner of some store items mean?
Trains and buildings with a star in the upper left corner indicate that those passengers have a chance to give bonus XP and coins on top of the regular amount. You can see what passengers and rare passengers a starred building will give by putting your mouse over it in the store. If you put your mouse over the star, it will show what rare passenger the building will give along with its stats.
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What is Instant Fuel?
Instant fuel brings any train that is not yet ready to the ready state. You can use this for your own routes or your neighbors!
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What are Tasks?
Click on the Engineer Checklist on the upper left hand side of your screen to see what Tasks you can complete for coins and items!
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Where can I check out Achievements?
You can see what achievements you've accomplished and what you can still do by clicking on the "Achievements" trophy button on the right side of your screen! We are always adding new achievements so check back periodically!
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Why can't I add any more friends?
Additional stops cannot be added to a route that already has a pending stop invitation. The pending invitation must be accepted or removed by the owner or inviter before adding another friend to the route. To remove a pending invitation, go to the train details and then click the "Remove last stop" button.
You are also limited to creating 10 new train routes with friends.
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Can I remove or rearrange stops on a route?
Stops appear in the order that they are accepted and cannot be rearranged. Once a friend has accepted your invitation, he or she is permanently part of that line until they take themselves off of it. However, if a friend has not yet accepted your invitation, the owner of the route can remove him or her from the train route.
You can remove friends from your route that have not accepted your invitation by selecting the train and then clicking the "Remove Last Stop" button.
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Can my friends remove me from their train routes?
Your friends cannot remove you from their routes that you are already on. Only you can take yourself off of their routes. You can do this by finding the route and clicking the "X" button next to your portrait.
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What if I don't have enough passengers?
If you do not have enough passengers to fill each train car you may still send the train, but you will not be rewarded with the highest possible number of coins. To send more passengers to your Depot, click on your buildings to send passengers on their way.
Once a train has arrived to your station, the passengers on the platform will automatically board the train.
Remember, passengers pay different fares so you want to purchase and upgrade to higher value buildings that produce higher paying passengers!
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How does the Passenger Transfer work?
Visit a friend's county and click on a building that has a waiting passenger at it to gain a bonus passenger for your own county! Don't worry, as it is a "bonus" passenger, your friend will still have the same passenger waiting for them as well!
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What happens to my train upgrade if my friend upgrades the train again?
When your friend upgrades a train that you have already upgraded, the upgrade that you purchased will be added to your inventory.
Once the upgrade is in your inventory, it can be re-used. You can apply this upgrade to another train in the Train Upgrade Panel.
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Can I lock my personal routes so others can't upgrade it?
Yes, you can lock personal routes so that others cannot upgrade it. Click on any of your own trains. Next to the image of the train on the right side of your menu, you will see a blue lock icon. Click on that to lock that train onto that route. You can always take the lock off whenever you want as well.
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What happens to my train upgrade if my friend upgrades the train again?
When your friend upgrades a train that you have already upgraded, the upgrade that you purchased will be added to your inventory.
Once the upgrade is in your inventory, it can be re-used.
You can apply this upgrade to another train in the Train Upgrade Panel.
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Can I lock my personal routes so others can't upgrade it?
Yes, you can lock personal routes so that others cannot upgrade it. Click on any of your own trains. Next to the image of the train on the right side of your menu, you will see a blue lock icon. Click on that to lock that train onto that route. You can always take the lock off whenever you want as well.
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How do I enter Full Screen? What happens if it freezes?
To go to Full Screen Mode, click the icon located in the upper right corner of the game screen. If clicking this button causes your computer to freeze or crash, enter Adobe Flash Player settings by right clicking anywhere in the game. Select 'Settings' and uncheck the box labeled "hardware acceleration".
Click close and refresh your page.
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How do I view my train schedule?
When you load your game your train schedule appears in the bottom of the game window. Each tile in the schedule represents a train route that you are a part of.
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How can I tell where my trains are?
All train routes that you are a part of appear in the schedule. You may need to scroll left or right to see them all. Click on a train tile to view more information about the train route.
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How do I report technical issues?
If you are experiencing technical issues please visit our forum and report the problem. You can also report the problem by clicking the "Report/Contact this application" button on the bottom left corner of the screen when entering the application.
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Can I visit another player's county?
You can visit another player's county by clicking on their portrait in the route details panel. You cannot visit a friend's county if you are not part of a train route with him or her.
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Is there a Leaderboard / Scoreboard?
You can compare your statistics against those of your friends to see how you rank with them! Click the "My Friends" button on the right side of your screen to check it out. You can also visit a friend's county through this feature as well!
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What is the Baron Wheel? How can I get better bonuses from him?
The Baron is a character that lives near your county and stops by everyday so you can spin his Baron Wheel! Play Lucky Train consecutive days in a row and watch the rewards on the golden wheel improve as you spin! You can win Instant Fuel and Lucky Bucks here as well!
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How do I send gifts to my friends?
You can send gifts to friends by clicking on the "Free Gifts" tab near the top of the game window. Once you reach the gift page, select an item that you would like to send to a friend by clicking the "Choose" button. Once you're done selecting friends, click the "Send Lucky Train Gift Request" button. Your friends will then be notified that you sent them a gift.
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How do I get Lucky Bucks?
You can win Lucky Bucks on the Baron's daily golden wheel. You can also purchase Lucky Bucks by clicking on the Get LuckyBucks tab on the top of the application. Choose a package and then choose the method of payment. Clicking Paypal is the easiest way to purchase Lucky Bucks directly. You can choose the Facebook Credits option to purchase Lucky Bucks with Facebook Credits.
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How do I report technical issues?
If you are experiencing technical issues please visit our forum and report the problem. You can also report the problem by clicking the "Report/Contact this application" link on the bottom left corner of the screen when entering the application.