Game: Crazy Race

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fractaloon — 2008-04-10T01:30:58+00:00

Sample counters and tiles from the DTP version.

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fractaloon — 2008-04-10T01:30:17+00:00

The cards from the DTP version (front and back).

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fractaloon — 2008-04-10T01:29:36+00:00

The board from the DTP version

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boneroller — 2007-09-06T22:02:39+00:00

4 Colors of Player Train Pieces

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boneroller — 2007-09-06T22:01:58+00:00

Points Cards and 1 Leg Card

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boneroller — 2007-09-06T22:01:25+00:00

German Rules Booklet

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boneroller — 2007-09-06T22:00:35+00:00

Engineer Player Cards and Card Back

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boneroller — 2007-09-06T21:59:30+00:00

What! Another Dream-esque, Pseudo-Creative Photograph?

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simonh — 2007-01-09T04:39:01+00:00

The stickers waiting to be stuck onto the wooden blocks.

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Mariana — 2006-03-28T00:08:04+00:00

Older version

Thread: Face up bids?

qzhdad — 2005-08-23T02:22:37+00:00

Anybody tried face up bidding on this one?

Or have thoughts on why it would or wouldn't work?

We played, but the blind bidding made it seem a bit more random than desired for me. (and that was with me winning all the bids! , the rest of the table was really not having fun.)

Thread: Session Report

jaywowzer — 2004-02-29T19:47:22+00:00

Games day 15, January 31, 2004: CRAZY RACE (new to me)

I did enjoy the leap-frogging movement and the bidding/card
management yet at the end this remained a good race game that was
just 'good' leaving me wanting. This one certainly deserves another
play or two before I pass judgement. We played with three (new to 2).

Thread: Session Report

garrylloyd — 2003-09-11T15:32:19+00:00

Players: Nige, Mark K, John, Garry

We then tried another of Michael Schacht’s little train games from last year’s Essen. Having played Mogul and really enjoyed it, I was looking forward to this, but found it to be much less satisfying. The fact that I got trounced didn’t help. This is a race game where you are moving one of your set of trains forward and leapfrogging those in front of you. The ability to move is done using a blind bidding technique, with four lots of movement available each turn. Points are awarded to trains passing the half way point and finishing line and the person accumulating the most points wins.

I seriously underbid on most of the turns and although that should have allowed me to bid higher on later turns, I picked the wrong fights and still lost out too often. Mark K , on the other hand, could do no wrong and his trains must have been running on diesel rather than steam as he romped ahead comfortably. Not bad but nothing special.

Result: Mark K 28, Nige 15, John 10, Garry 7

Ratings: Mark K 5, Nige 6, John 6, Garry 6