Zeppelin Derby
Currently my Minimal Travel Table Top Game Collection contains these six card games + dice. Here are simplified rules for Zeppelin Derby.
Cards & Tokens
For this game, you need:
- A friend or a foe to play with
- 17 cards: 3 race track, 4 red Dirty Tricks, 3 blue Weather, 4 green Engineering and 3 yellow Crew cards.
- 2 tokens to race with.
- 5 dice
Setup
- Put three track cards next to each other (match black dots)
- Shuffle 14 colored cards and deal 6 to each. Discard other 2.
Gameplay
- Each turn, roll 5 dice once. Set aside any you like and reroll the others.
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For each dice matching your Zeppelin number (1 or 6, see race track), move
according to the following:
- 1 die: 2 spaces
- 2 die: 3 spaces
- 3 die: 5 spaces
- 4 die: 7 spaces
- 5 die: 10 spaces
- You can play a card before or after your roll.
- Winner is the player who crosses the line first.