Railroad Ink Challenge: Shining Yellow Edition

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Railroad Ink Challenge: Shining Yellow Edition

BGG Rank: 1550

Players: 1 - 4, Recommended: 4+, Best: 4+

Playing Time: 30 minutes

Weight (Complexity): 2.00 / 5

Mechanisms: Bingo, Connections, Dice Rolling, Line Drawing, Network and Route Building, Paper-and-Pencil, Simultaneous Action Selection, Solo / Solitaire Game

Category: Dice, Trains

Family: Components: 7 x 7 Grids, Components: Dice with Icons, Components: Dry Erase Markers / Dry Erase Surfaces, Crowdfunding: Kickstarter, Digital Implementations: Tabletopia, Game: Railroad Ink, Mechanism: Roll-and-Write, Players: Games with Solitaire Rules, Theme: Cacti and Succulents, Theme: Deserts

Designer: Hjalmar Hach, Lorenzo Silva

Artist: Marta Tranquilli

Publisher: Horrible Guild, Albi, Delta Vision Publishing, GaGa Games, Ghenos Games, HeidelBÄR Games, IELLO, White Goblin Games

Category: Roll-and-Write

Railroad Ink Challenge is a quick-playing roll-and-write game for 1 to 4 players. Grab a board and a dry-erase marker, and get ready to reach networking nirvana! Roll the dice and draw the routes to connect the exits around your board. Expand your network with railways, highways and stations to collect points, but you will be penalized for any open connections, so plan carefully! Railroad Ink Challenge has everything you love from the original Railroad Ink games and a lot more, with an all-new focus on player interaction thanks to in-game goals! Only those who achieve them first get the reward, so you have to keep an eye on what your opponents are doing and try to complete the goals before they do! A different set of goals is available each time, so no two games will be the same! But wait, there's more! Draw unprecedented, mind-bending route configurations thanks to the new dice! Connect special structures to your network to trigger new effects: factories allow you to duplicate a die, villages give bonus points if they are close to a station, universities unlock extra special routes — use these effects wisely and you'll score big! Railroad Ink Challenge comes in two versions, each one including one expansion with an additional dice set that adds new special rules to your games. Use oases to protect your cacti from the arid desert climate in the Shining Yellow Edition! —description from publisher

Average Playing Time	Less than 1 hour
Best Player Count	2 Best
Collection	Kevin
Difficulty	Opener/Closer
Played	Played
Recommended Player Count	Solo, 2 Players, 3 Players, 4 Players, 5 Players, 6 Players

Players: 1 - 4, Recommended: -, Best: -

Playing Time: 30 minutes

Weight (Complexity): 2.00 / 5

In the multiplayer puzzle game Railroad Ink™, your goal is to connect as many exits on your board as possible. Each round, a set of dice are rolled in the middle of the table, determining which kind of road and railway routes are available to all players. Use the 4 special dice of the Electricity Expansion Pack in addition to your regular Route dice, and find new ways to score points: Street Lamp (2 dice): build Street Lamps and power them with Generators to light your board and score a lot of points! Power Grid (2 dice): connect your Exits to the central Accumulator and charge it with electricity to multiply your bonus points! Note: at least one core set of Railroad Ink™ or Railroad Ink Challenge™ is required to use this expansion pack.

Players: 1 - 4, Recommended: -, Best: -

Playing Time: 30 minutes

Weight (Complexity): 2.00 / 5

In the multiplayer puzzle game Railroad Ink™, your goal is to connect as many exits on your board as possible. Each round, a set of dice are rolled in the middle of the table, determining which kind of road and railway routes are available to all players. Use the 4 special dice of the Sky Expansion Pack in addition to your regular Route dice, and find new ways to score points: Weather (2 dice): control clouds, rain, and snow and prevent weather fronts from colliding to score bonus points! Airline (2 dice): use air routes and airports to extend your networks up to the sky! Note: at least one core set of Railroad Ink™ or Railroad Ink Challenge™ is required to use this expansion pack.

Players: 1 - 4, Recommended: -, Best: -

Playing Time: 30 minutes

Weight (Complexity): 2.00 / 5

In the multiplayer puzzle game Railroad Ink™, your goal is to connect as many exits on your board as possible. Each round, a set of dice are rolled in the middle of the table, determining which kind of road and railway routes are available to all players. Use the 4 special dice of the Futuristic Expansion Pack in addition to your regular Route dice, and find new ways to score points: Super Connection (1 die): use “wild” routes and connect both Highways and Railways to create huge networks! City Builder (2 dice): gather resources and construct buildings to score extra points! Alien Farmer (1 die): manage your farms and use UFOs to collect as many sheep as possible! Note: at least one core set of Railroad Ink™ or Railroad Ink Challenge™ is required to use this expansion pack.

Players: 1 - 4, Recommended: 1, Best: 4

Playing Time: 30 minutes

Weight (Complexity): 2.00 / 5

In the multiplayer puzzle game Railroad Ink™, your goal is to connect as many exits on your board as possible. Each round, a set of dice are rolled in the middle of the table, determining which kind of road and railway routes are available to all players. Use the 4 special dice of the Engineer Expansion Pack in addition to your regular Route dice, and find new ways to score points: Construction (1 die): perform special actions and restructure your networks! Renovation (1 die): modify pre-existing routes and add more connections to them! Separation (1 die): increase the challenge of your games with tricky expansion and its never-connecting routes! Special (1 die): build Special Routes in a whole new way and score a lot of points! Note: at least one core set of Railroad Ink™ or Railroad Ink Challenge™ is required to use this expansion pack.

Players: 1 - 4, Recommended: 1, Best: -

Playing Time: 30 minutes

Weight (Complexity): 2.50 / 5

In the multiplayer puzzle game Railroad Ink™, your goal is to connect as many exits on your board as possible. Each round, a set of dice are rolled in the middle of the table, determining which kind of road and railway routes are available to all players. The Underground Expansion Pack contains 4 dice that you can use in two ways. With the Standalone mode, you use them instead of the normal Route dice, to build underground networks of Subway Routes and Water Pipes to score points in a whole new way. With the Expansion mode, you use them together with the normal Route dice, but without mixing them! You need two boards for each player, one for the Surface and one for the Underground. The basic Route dice are used on the Surface board (following the normal rules), while the Underground dice (and rules) are used on the Underground board! Note: at least one core set of Railroad Ink™ or Railroad Ink Challenge™ is required to use this expansion pack.

Players: 1 - 4, Recommended: 2, Best: -

Playing Time: 30 minutes

Weight (Complexity): 2.00 / 5

In the multiplayer puzzle game Railroad Ink™, your goal is to connect as many exits on your board as possible. Each round, a set of dice are rolled in the middle of the table, determining which kind of road and railway routes are available to all players. Use the 4 special dice of the Arcade Expansion Pack in addition to your regular Route dice, and find new ways to score points: Pluck-Man (1 die): feed Pluck-Man with enough Fruits to eat those pesky Ghost! Tetromino (1 die): respect your commitment for urban planning to gain precious points! Galactic Invaders (1 die): send Aliens to attack your opponents while trying to defend against those invading you! Rainbow (1 die): populate your board with colorful rainbows and send ominous clouds to your adversaries! Note: at least one core set of Railroad Ink™ or Railroad Ink Challenge™ is required to use this expansion pack.

Players: 1 - 4, Recommended: 1, Best: 4

Playing Time: 30 minutes

Weight (Complexity): 2.50 / 5

In the multiplayer puzzle game Railroad Ink™, your goal is to connect as many exits on your board as possible. Each round, a set of dice are rolled in the middle of the table, determining which kind of road and railway routes are available to all players. Use the 4 special dice of the Eldritch Expansion Pack in addition to your regular Route dice, and find new ways to score points: Ritual (1 die): open new Portals and add mysterious Rituals to create a Madness Network! Portal (1 die): open different supernatural Portals to connect distant areas of your network! Tentacle (1 die): extend Tentacles along your network as much as you can to get bonus points for each space occupied! Investigation (1 die): send your Investigator to collect Clues to solve the case and gain extra points! Note: at least one core set of Railroad Ink™ or Railroad Ink Challenge™ is required to use this expansion pack.

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PDF Rules on File: Yes

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Railroad Ink, Kickstarter

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Included in Railroad Ink Challenge "Collector" Kickstarter pledge.

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Kickstarter, expected December 2020.

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