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Road Rally USA

Score and win stages

You participate in a race over 21 stages and try to be in front when a stage is completed, but you only score when a stage is triggered for scoring. The race track is laid out and you place checkpoint markers and stage markers. The cars are placed at the starting positions randomly, then you choose a card and get its display and a deck of cards, from which you draw five to start the game. The stage cards are shuffled and you are dealt four stage cards which give you control over four of the 21 stages.

In a turn you play one or more movement cards of the same color, advance your card accordingly and draw 0-2 cards depending on the color of cards you played. When all cards have been moved you resolve all stage markers that were reached this round. If you reached a marker and hold the card for this stage, you can, but do not need to, trigger the scoring for this stage. If the scoring is triggered all players score points or draw cards according to their positions in the stage. You can also score points for finishing a round on a checkpoint for for sitting on a stage tile when the stage is triggered. If nobody plays the respective stage card a stage is not scored. You can only use two of your four stage cards, the other two are discarded unrevealed.

Those stage scorings are the core of the game, together with the right balance of moving fast against card supply because the higher the card you play the fewer cards you draw – some tactic in a simple race game, with lovingly chosen car images and a bit of chance from cards and event spots.

Players: 3-5

Age: 8+

Time: 45+

Designer: Carlo A. Rossi

Artist: David Cochard, Morgan Dontanville, Pete Fenlon

Price: ca. 28 Euro

Publisher: Mayfair Games 2013

Web: www.mayfairgames.com

Genre: Car racing

Version: en

Rules: en

In-game text: no

Comments:

Very detailed and painstaking design and components

Very good mixture of luck and tactics

Sophisticated mechanism for optional stage scoring

Compares to:

All car race game with cards for speed and stage scoring

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0