A board game about going on a roadtrip and getting stuck in traffic
2–10 players · roll, drive, and be first to visit every town
Hop in your car and hit the road. Jamming Traffic sets you on a journey to visit all nearby sights, though not without adversity. Roll the dice, dodge the traffic, and see how far you can get before anyone else does.
The board is a map of towns, joined by roads. Cars queue up along the roads — steering them from town to town is the whole game.
Anywhere from 2 to 10 people can play. Each player picks a home town and with it the car of the same colour.
Every road starts with 2 neutral cars on it. To begin your journey replace one of the neutral cars neighbouring your home town with your car.
On your turn, roll the two dice. Most faces show a number, which when added give you the number of cars you can move. The remaining faces allow you to place a roundabout or a one-way road.
Cars queue up along the roads. You can only grab a car that's sitting at one end of a road, right next to a town, and move it through the town to a neighbouring road behind any cars on that road.
You can only move your own car or a neutral car, not an opponent's. Opponents' cars only move when a traffic jam pushes them along.
However, the rules of traffic must be followed at all times. That includes roundabout, one way streets, a traffic jams.
Roads only have room for three cars. If a fourth ever ends up on one, that's a jam and it clears itself. The car at the far end gets pushed off and straight onto the next road, automatically, at no cost to your turn. If that pushes some other road past its limit, too, the jam keeps rippling outward until every road is back down to three or fewer cars.
Tip
Traffic jams can loop around cascading endlessly. This can fast forward your car instantly to anywhere on the loop.
When you roll a roundabout, choose a direction (clockwise or anti-clockwise) and place it on a town before moving any cars.
From then on, any car passing through that town must take the very next (legal) exit road going in that direction. This applies whether you're steering it yourself or a jam is forcing it through. There's no picking a different road once a roundabout is in place.
Only one roundabout exists at a time. Roll a new one, and the old one is gone.
When you roll a one-way road, place it on a road to turn it into a one-way road in either direction. Do this before moving any cars.
Once it's placed, that road only works one way. Cars can only enter from one end and leave from the other, never the reverse.
Just like the roundabout, only one exists at a time, and placing a new one clears the old one.
Illegal Manoeuvre
A roundabout cannot send you down a one-way road in the wrong direction. Instead, the next exit (in the direction of the roundabout) must be taken.
Whichever car first manages to visit all town other than their starting town wins the game. To visit a town you must pass through it with your car.
Safe travels.