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Railroad Ink

Blazing Red Edition

Aim of the game is to connect as many exits as possible in networks for rail and road by drawing tracks. There are three exits on each side of the 7x7 grid. The more exits you can connect to the same network, the more valuable the network is. Four dice show track segments for rail and road, stations and overpasses. Stations connect roads with rails. The longest rail track, the longest road track and using the nine central cases of the grid will yield bonuses.

At the start of a round the four track segment dice are rolled; the results are for use by all players and must be added to track on each player’s board once – connected to an exit or a track already drawn. The track segment on the dice can be rotated or mirrored  any way you want for putting it on the grid. In addition to the segments on dice results you can – once per round – make use one of the special track segments provided on your personal board, albeit each of them only once per game and only three of them per game. Track segments added to the board are marked at the end of the round with the number of the round and cannot be deleted. After seven rounds you score your board and deduct one point for each unconnected end-of-track.

The Meteor Dice expansion introduces meteor hits that destroy track, but if you connect to the crater you can gain valuable resources. The Lava Dice expansion provides points for the biggest lava lake and contained lava streams.

This is more a multiplayer solitaire logic puzzle than a game, offering a good mix of chance and tactic and a high replay value due to the very well-working expansions.

Players: 1-6

Age: 8+

Time: 30+

Designer: Hjalmar Hach, Lorenzo Silva

Artist: Marta Tranquilli

Price: ca. 20 Euro

Publisher: CMON / Horrible Games 2018

Web: www.asmodee.de

Genre: Track building, dice

Users: For families

Version: en

Rules: de en it nl pl

In-game text: no

Comments:

For 12 plyers in combination with Deep Blue

Expansions from Deep Blue can be used with Blazing Red

High replay value

Compares to:

Track drawing games in general

Other editions:

Ghenos Games (it), Horrible Games (de), announced: Foxgames (pl), White Goblin Games (nl)

Chance (pink): 3

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 0

Dexterity (green): 2

Action (dark green): 0