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.