How to play

The race

Components

Setup

1. Shuffle the hill cards and place 4 of them face down in a column. Put the start card at the top of the hill and the finish card at the bottom. Return the remaining hill cards to the box.
2. Shuffle the cart cards and place them in a row at the top of the hill.
3. Shuffle the cheer cards and deal 4 face down to each player as their hand. Keep the face-down deck near the play area.
4. Form the market with face-up cheer cards equal to the number of players plus one (for example, with 3 players, reveal 4 cards).
5. The youngest player takes the horn card and places it in front of them.
6. Add the advanced-mode cards for a more exciting game (see Advanced modes), or put them back in the box.

Goal

Have the most bubble gum at the end of the race by betting on the carts that reach the podium.

How to play

Rolimã is played over several rounds, until a cart reaches the bottom of the hill and arrives at the finish card.

Each round has 3 phases:

1. Cheer phase
2. Draft phase
3. Maintenance phase

Cheer phase

The player with the horn card starts the round by playing one card face up in front of them. Then the other players do the same, in clockwise order.

• The number on the card shows the strength of the cheer.
• The colour of the number shows which cart the cheer is for.
• Numbers of the same colour are added together, even if they were played by different players.

Once all cards have been played, the loudest cheer wins the round. Immediately move the cart of that colour to the next section of the hill, that is, the space in the row below.

If a cart reaches the finish card at the bottom of the hill, the game ends immediately (see End of the game). Otherwise, continue with the Draft phase.

Who's ahead?

The position of the carts on the table determines who is ahead:

• The further down the hill, the further ahead.
• Within the same section, the further to the right (that is, the closer to the hill card), the further ahead.

This order is also the tiebreaker to decide which card is the highest when two or more equal numbers are played.

When a cart moves into a section that already has another cart, it overtakes it, taking the rightmost position, next to the hill card.

Draft phase

Starting with the player who played the lowest card in the previous phase, and continuing in ascending order, every player takes 1 card from the market to refill their hand.

If cards with equal numbers were played, use the cart-position tiebreaker (see Who's ahead?) to find out which one is the lowest and who takes a card first.

The last player to take a card also receives the horn card and starts the next round.

Maintenance phase

Check whether the cart in first place is in a section whose hill card is face down. If so, reveal it, and turn the hill card of the previous section face down (if there is one), so that only one hill rule is active at a time.

The rule shown on a revealed hill card must be followed for as long as it stays face up. Hill cards change the dynamics of the game by modifying the basic rules. Hill card rules always take priority over the basic rules.

Put the cards played during the cheer phase on the discard pile. The discard pile may not be looked through during the game.

Refill the market with the right number of cards, as described in Setup. When the face-down deck runs out, shuffle the discard pile to form a new deck.

Start a new round.

End of the game

When a cart reaches the finish card at the bottom of the hill, the game ends immediately.

Skip the draft phase and any other rule effects.

Scoring

The 3 cards left in each player's hand are their bets on the carts.

Multiply the bubble gum shown on those 3 cheer cards according to where their carts finished:

The player with the most bubble gum in total wins Rolimã!

In case of a tie, the player holding the highest cheer card for the best-placed cart wins.

Advanced modes

For a more exciting game, add the advanced-mode cards. You can add just one of the modes, or both in the same game.

0/10 cheer cards

During setup, shuffle the 0/10 cards into the other cheer cards.

A 0/10 cheer card shows two numbers. During the cheer phase, if it is the only card of its colour played that round, it is worth 10. If another card of the same colour was played, it is worth 0.

The value decided during the cheer phase is also used for the draft order in the following phase.

At the end of the game, for breaking ties, the card is worth 10 if it is the only card of its colour among all bets, and 0 otherwise.

Bubble-gum cards

During setup, lay out the five bubble-gum cards face up in an area of the table.

At the end of the draft phase, the player who receives the horn card must choose one bubble-gum card and place it face up in front of them.

• You may choose a bubble-gum card that another player already has.
• You may own more than one bubble-gum card at the same time.

Each bubble-gum card is worth 1 bubble gum, multiplied according to its colour (see Scoring).

Variants

• Simpler games: don't reveal the hill card rules.
• More controlled games: decide beforehand which hill cards to use.