Paradise Road

The Basics: Players take turns racing their pawns around a simple highway map. The first player to hit each big city and then return home is the winner.

To begin, each player chooses the home city closest to them on the table, and starts their pawn there. Place a flag (a token) on each of the five large cities including your home city. Roll three dice to determine the first player.

Each turn, players take two dice from the bank, and roll them together with any dice they have left over from their last turn. You can move along any road segment by spending a matching die, or several dice that add up exactly to the length of the road. Hit all the cities and return home first to win the game!

You will neeed a pawn and five tokens for each player, and up to twelve six-sided dice. The board below can be printed at any size, but we recommend at least 11 x 15 so that your racers have plenty of room.

Here are the files for printing your own copy:

• Paradise Road Rules, V 2.0 11/20/24

• Paradise Road Board (South Carolina) V 2.0 11/20/24

Background: A copy of Paradise Road recently surfaced in James Ernest’s basement, after being abandoned for almost 20 years. The game was first imagined in September 2005, but it shortly fell by the wayside. A hard drive catastrophe didn’t help. Working from the printed board and a recollection that the old rules weren’t very good, James revisited and reinveted this game in November 2024, and now you can print and play the new open beta version.

We’d love to make more boards for Paradise Road, once we have the core mechanics figured out! Do you have a favorite place that should be our next board? Please let us know!