BLAZING REDedition

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4 ROUTE DICE

6 BOARDS 2 Lava dice 2 METEOR dice

Game Overview
A game of Railroad Ink™ is played over 7 rounds. The goal is to connect as many Exits to
each other as possible by drawing Routes that can create Networks. The more Exits you
connect to the same Network, the more points it will be worth. Bonus points can be earned for
your Longest Railway, your Longest Highway, and by drawing on the Central Spaces of your board.

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 setup
1. Each player takes a Board and places it Special Routes
in front of them.
2. Each player also takes a marker.
3. Place the Route dice in the middle
of the table.
4. The Meteor and Lava dice are only
used in the Expansions (see page 10).

Route dice reference

ScorING table
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Network values

Central Spaces

Exits

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 GAME RoundS There are 2 kinds of Route dice.
3 dice show these 6 kinds of Routes:
At the beginning of each round, the Route
dice are rolled once. The results of the roll Straight Straight
will determine which Routes all players must Highway Railway
draw that round. After the roll, all players play
simultaneously, drawing the Routes rolled Curved Curved
on their own boards. Highway Railway

ROLLING DICE T-junction T-junction

Highway Railway
Take the Route dice and roll them in the
middle of the table. Place the dice so they
are easily visible to all players.
1 die shows these 3 kinds of Routes:

Overpass

Straight Curved
Station Station

Note: Stations allow you to connect

a Railway Route to a Highway Route.
Overpasses allow the two to cross
without being connected to each other.

Hint: To more easily keep track of the

Routes you have to draw, you can use the
dice reference on your board to mark
3 4 5 6 7 4 the available Routes, if you so desire.
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 Drawing routes
After the dice roll, all players must draw the
Routes on their boards at the same time.
There are a few drawing
2 3rules4 you
5 need
6 7to follow:
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1. Each Route you4draw 8 must
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by at least one side to either one of the
Exits or a preexisting Route. If you can’t
connect a Route, you can’t draw it.
2. You must draw all 4 Routes shown on the
dice each round (if possible, and each Route
showing can only be drawn once, of course).
3. You can’t draw Routes in a way that directly
connects Railways to Highways or vice versa
(you need a Station to do that).

Important: When drawing Routes, you

can freely rotate and/or reverse the
pattern you see on the die.

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 using special routes
Each player can also use 6 Special Routes,
displayed in the top part of the boards, that
do not appear on the Route dice. These Routes2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
may allow you to connect different Networks4 8 12 16 20 24 28 32 36 40 45
together and/or make bigger Networks.

You may draw a Special Route once per round, 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

in addition to the Routes shown on the Route 4 8 12 16 20 24 28 32 36 40 45
dice, but you may use each Special Route
only once per game. After you use a Special
Route, you must mark it off on your board
as a reminder that you can’t use it again.

Also, you can only use up to 3 Special Routes

during the entire game (and remember, only Remember: Only 1 Special Route
1 per round). per round, and only up to 3 per game!

end of the round 3 5 4

Once all the players have drawn all of the
available Routes, the round ends.
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Each player must mark the spaces where
they drew Routes this round by writing the
number of the current round in the white 2 4 5
boxes of each space they drew on. You can
never erase the Routes you drew in a previous round.

After that, roll the Route Dice to start the 1 5 5

next round.

Example: The end of the 5th round.

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End of the Game

The game ends after the 7th round. Now it’s time
to count your score! Each player counts the points
they earned for their connected Exits , their
Longest Railway and Longest Highway, and
the Central Spaces they drew on, marking their
points on the designated spaces of the Scoring Table
on their boards. For more details, see the next page.
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matching space of your Scoring Table. Design:
Production Manager:
Alessandro Pra’,
Hjalmar Hach, Lorenzo Silva
Note: If you are playing with an Expansion Flavio Mortarino
Artwork:
(see page 10), mark any additional points on the Rulebook:
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expansion space of your scoring board. Alessandro Pra’
Graphic Design:
English Revision:
Rita Ottolini, Noa Vassalli
Finally, add up all the points you earned William Niebling
(subtracting any points from Errors) and write your Project Manager:
total score on your Scoring Table. The player with Lorenzo Silva
the most points wins! In case of a tie, the winner © 2018-2019-2020 Horrible Games.
is the player with the fewest Error marks on their All rights reserved.
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 how to score points
CONNECTING ExitS
Connecting Exits is the main way to score points in Railroad Ink™. At the end of the
game, each set of Exits that are connected to each other via the same Network of Routes
is worth a number of points determined by the number of Exits connected together,
as shown on the Network Values on your Board.

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Note: Overpasses only allow you
to make two of your Networks cross
each other, but they don’t create
6 7 7 a connection between the two.

3 3 4 4 6 Note: You can use Stations to

B connect Railway Routes and
Highway Routes to each other.
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Example: Dagmar’s board at the 4 8 12 16 20 2
end of the game has 2 Networks. One
(A) connects a total of 4 Exits and is
worth 12 points. The other (B) connects
6 Exits and is worth 20 points. They
b score 32 points for their Networks!

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 bonus points
While the points you get for connecting Exits may end up being the bulk of your score when
you add up points at the end of the game, do not underestimate the importance of the bonus
points you can earn from your Longest Highway, Longest Railway, and Central Spaces.
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Your Longest Highway is 4 8 12 16 20 24 28 32 36 40 45

the longest unbroken

streak of adjacent spaces
where you drew Highway Routes
that are connected to each other
(not counting any loops or branches),
such as the route marked in blue
to the right. You score 1 point for
each space that makes up your 6 5
single longest Highway branch.
Stations do not interrupt your 7 4
Highway. This example show a
Longest Highway of 7 spaces.
1 2 3
Your Longest Railway is
determined the same way as 1
the Longest Highway, only
counting Railway Routes instead of
Highway Routes, like the one marked 2
in green to the right (worth 5 points).
3 4 5
Your Central Spaces are the
9 spaces in the middle of your
board. You score 1 point for each If you have two Longest Routes (with the same number
Central Space you drew anything on. of spaces), only 1 counts towards your final score.
If you should count a space you already counted to
7 5 6 proceed, your Longest Route is interrupted instead.

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 EXPANSIONS
Once you feel confident enough with the ins and outs of Railroad Ink™, you can spice things up
by using 1 of the 2 optional Expansions included in this box.
If you play with an Expansion , you must roll the respective Expansion dice along with the
4 Route dice at the beginning of each round. In addition, the Expansion may change the number
of rounds you must play and give you new ways to score points.
During the game, follow the same rules as the regular game with a few changes, as described
on the following pages.

At the end of the game, when you add up your score, remember to count the points you earned
from the Expansion you’re using, and mark them in the designated space of your scoring table.

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Meteor dice : 6 rounds
Meteors will wreak havoc and destruction, but they also bring precious minerals and ores to
Earth. 1 Meteor will hit each round, creating a Crater on your Board and destroying any Route
it hits. But, if you lead Routes into the Craters, you can gather precious resources and
gain additional points. When playing with the Meteor Expansion , apply these changes
to the regular game rules:

◊ The game only lasts 6 rounds. Distance faces

◊ One of the Meteor dice shows a direction
and the other shows distance. They show you
where the Meteor will hit next, counting Fixed direction faces
from the last space a Meteor hit. On the first
round, count from the Central Space.
You can choose the direction
of your Meteor.
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◊ When the Meteor hits a space, you must

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draw a Crater inside of it. If any Route was
drawn inside that space, you must erase it.
◊ Mark the space hit by the Meteor by drawing 1 1 • • 1
a dot in the top left corner, as a reminder.
Always erase the dot from the space hit in
the previous round! Example: Moving 2 spaces to the
◊ If, while moving towards its next target, the left (A), the Meteor hits the straight
Meteor reaches the edge of the Board, Railway Route,2 3 which
4 5 6must 7 8 be
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it bounces and proceeds in the opposite by the new Crater
4 8 12 (B).
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direction to complete its movement.
◊ If the Meteor will hit a space that already
contains a Crater, it keeps moving in the
same direction until it can hit a Free Space.
If by doing so it would hit outside of the •
Board, it bounces.
◊ At the beginning of the round, you can mark
an available Special Route on your Board
to ignore the Meteor dice this round (it Example: The Meteor should move 3 spaces to
counts as using a Special Route). the left, but it reaches the edge of the board
◊ At any point during the round, you can erase after just 1 space. So it bounces back and
a Crater to draw a new Route in its place. moves 2 spaces to the right. This would make it
◊ At the end of the game, you gain 2 points land on a Crater
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for each Route that has an open end
connected to a Crater (these open ends A b
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Example: You can erase a Crater (A) to draw a

Route in the same space (B). If it is the last space
12 hit by the Meteor, do not erase the dot! It will remind
you where the Meteor will start from next round.
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 Lava dice : 6 rounds
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Volcanoes start erupting, but the Route building must 4go8 12on! Work your way
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around lakes of
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Lava and prevent them from destroying your Routes. Confine the Lava streams to gain extra
points. You also score additional points for the Largest Lava lake on your Board. When
playing with the Lava Expansion , apply these changes to the regular game rules:
◊ The game only lasts 6 rounds.
◊ At the beginning of the game, draw a Volcano in the
Central Space of your board.
◊ When you draw Routes, you must draw at least 1
Lava die (you can also draw both if you want. You Example: Giulio must draw the mandatory Lava
still have to use all 4 Route dice). space for the round, but he only has 1 open Lava lake
◊ The Lava dice you draw must be connected side left. He doesn’t want to open another Volcano,
to pre-existing Lava. so he must erase
2 3 the
4 station
5 6 7 to
8 create space
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for it.
◊ At any point during the round, if you want, you can
draw a new Volcano in any space as long as it is
not adjacent to pre-existing Lava.
◊ If there are no free spaces adjacent to open Lava lake
sides, you must either open a new Volcano or erase
a Route to make space for it.
◊ Open Lava lake sides count as Errors at the
end of the game.
◊ At the end of the game, you get 5 points
for each Lava lake without open sides. You also get
1 point for each space occupied by your Largest
Lava lake (even if it is not closed).
Example: Giulio has two Lava lakes on
his Board. The one in the top left corner 16
is closed (the sides connected to the
edges of2 the
3 Board
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more Lava)
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28 32 The36Largest
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in the middle has 1 open side, so it’s worth 11 points,
1 for each space.
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