Cheer
Everyone plays one card face up. Same-colour numbers add together, no matter who played them. The loudest crowd pushes its cart one section down the hill.
SPIEL Essen 2026 · Seeking publishers
Rolimã
Five kids. One hill. Bet your bubble gum.
A fast racing-and-betting card game from Brazil. Cheer the soapbox carts down the hill, but every card you play is a bet you give up.
- Players
- 2–6
- Play time
- 20 min
- Age
- 10+
- Components
- 70 cards
- Style
- Race + Bet
The game
The biggest soapbox race in the neighbourhood
Five kids are racing their carrinhos de rolimã (home-made ball-bearing carts) down the steepest street in town. You're not driving. You're in the crowd, and you've got a pocket full of bubble gum to bet.
Play cheer cards to push carts down the hill, or hold them as bets for the final podium. The cart you secretly back might not be the one you're cheering for, and everyone at the table knows it.
- Every card is a choice: move a cart now, or keep it as a bet.
- Four of the six hill cards twist the rules as the leader rolls downhill, so no two races feel the same.
- Plays 2 to 6 in about 20 minutes, with a dedicated two-player mode.
- Nearly language-independent: only the hill cards carry text.
How it plays
Cheer. Draft. Twist. Repeat.
Each round has three quick phases. The race ends the moment any cart crosses the finish line. Then the cards left in your hand become your bets.
Draft
Whoever played the lowest card picks first from the open market. Playing small now means choosing first, and the last to pick takes the horn and leads the next round.
Twist
When the leading cart reaches a new section, that section's hill card flips face up and a new rule takes over the race. Only one hill rule is active at a time.
The finish line
Your hand is your bet
When a cart reaches the finish, the race stops instantly. The three cards left in your hand are your bets: multiply the bubble gum on each card by its cart's final place.
Most gum wins. Cheer too hard and you've got nothing left to bet on. Hold back and your cart might never leave the start.
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In the box
A small box with a big race
Seventy cards and nothing else. The race track is built from the cards themselves, so the game sets up in a minute on any table.
- 45 Cheer cards (9 per colour)
- 5 Cart cards, one per racer
- 6 Hill cards with rule twists
- 2 Start & finish cards
- 10 Advanced-mode cards
- 2 Podium & horn cards
The art
Street culture you can hold in your hand
Ball-bearing cart races are a childhood ritual across Brazil, and anyone who grew up with Seifenkisten, soapbox derbies or caisses à savon recognises the feeling instantly.
Illustrated by Denilson Silva, every racer has a personality, a colour and a cart built from whatever was lying around the house.
The art can travel, too. We're open to adapting the illustrations to fit your market.
Red
Blue
Green
Yellow
Purple
The designers
Two heads, one hill
Rolimã is the creation of Brazilian game designers Yuri Morroni and Myke Netto, who combined their expertise to craft a clever game of hidden bets, tactical card play, and high-stakes racing.
Driven by a shared vision, they engineered the game to strike a perfect balance: simple and intuitive for newcomers to pick up right away, yet rich in strategic depth and dynamic tactical choices for seasoned board gamers. The result is a sharp, polished card game built on mutual effort and a passion for great tabletop experiences.
Yuri MorroniGame designer
Myke NettoGame designer
Full rules
Read the rulebook
The complete rules, including the two-player mode and advanced modules, in English and German.
For publishers
Bring Rolimã to your country
Rolimã is available for licensing. Whether you met us at SPIEL or just found this page, we'd love to hear from you.
contato@queroquerojogos.com.br
A game by Quero Quero Jogos
from Brazil