Waterworks (card game)

Waterworks is a card game that Parker Brothers published in 1972, and its name borrows from the Water Works space on the Monopoly board. The set holds 110 pipe cards, a bathtub-shaped card tray and ten small metal wrenches. Each player starts a pipeline with a valve card and tries to extend it to a length that depends on the number of players, then closes it by laying down the spout. Opponents play leaky pipes onto the end of a rival's line, and the owner must repair the leak with a matching intact pipe or a wrench before building on. Copper pipes cannot be made to leak, and a repaired pipe cannot leak again. Play runs clockwise, a player may swap one card instead of playing, and the first to finish a leak-free run from valve to spout wins. Winning Moves Games later reissued it as Waterworks Classic, and Games magazine listed it among its top games of 1980 and 1981.