How to Play

RoboRally

2-8 players 45-120 min 7.0 Board Game Geek Rating

Factory robots race through hazardous industrial floors in this chaotic programming game. Players secretly select movement cards to fill their robot's registers, then simultaneously reveal them each turn. Higher-numbered cards execute first, but collisions and obstacles like lasers and conveyor belts create unpredictable mayhem that can derail carefully planned routes. Victory goes to the first robot reaching all checkpoints sequentially.

Published 1994

Get Ready

Setup the game with these step-by-step instructions before diving into your turn.

Place a d6 on each flag, representing a 6-layer wall that must be shot 6 times collectively before anyone can claim the flag

For each flag except the final one, create an envelope containing one random Option card per player

Give every robot a random Option card at the start of the game

Sort remaining Options into two stacks

those that help the owning robot and those that hurt other robots

Begin with no life tokens (instead of the standard three lives)

On Your Turn

What you can do during your turn.

All robots must collectively shoot flag walls (reducing d6 pips by one each shot) before any robot can claim that flag

When tagging a flag (except the final one), the first robot to arrive earns the least-desirable Option from the envelope (as agreed by other players); subsequent robots get progressively better Options

When gaining new Options (other than Prizes), draw from either the "helps" or "hurts" stack based on strategy preference

When a robot dies, receive a "death token" instead of losing a life and missing the next round