Tokyo Highway: Rainbow City

What is Tokyo Highway: Rainbow City

Tokyo Highway: Rainbow City / トーキョーハイウェイ レインボーシティ is a new edition of Tokyo Highway with new gameplay elements and updated components that make the game easier to play...which can be good or bad depending on your taste for collapsing roads.

At the start of play, each player has cars in their color, along with roadways (sticks), gray column pieces, and yellow column pieces. Players set up the city by placing one of their roadways with one end on the table and the other end on a column, then topping it with one of their cars. Next, they take turns placing city objects — buildings, an airport, a tower, a green area — around the playing area.

On a turn, expand your highway by adding a new stick to the end of it. When you do so, one end of the stick is placed on the column supporting your most recently played stick and the other end goes on a new column that you add to the table; this new column must contain one more or one fewer column pieces than the column on the other end of the stick. (If you create a column with a yellow piece on top and at least one piece under it, you can break this height restriction rule.)

If you've built this piece of the roadway so that your stick is the first to cross over or go under an opponent's stick, then you score by placing one of your cars on this roadway. If you cross over or go under multiple sticks on the same placement, you place one car per stick you top or bottom!

Game details

Players

2–4

Age

+8

Duration

50 min

Difficulty

Light

Type

Board game

Year

2023

Mechanics

Network and Route Building · Stacking and Balancing

Categories

Action / Dexterity

Designer

Naotaka Shimamoto · Yoshiaki Tomioka

Publisher

itten · Game Harbor · HIT Games · Tambù