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 a home city, and starts their pawn there. Place a token on each of the five large cities including your home city. Roll 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 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 big cities and return home to win!

You will neeed a pawn, three dice, and five tokens for each player. The board 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 2.2 12/4/24)

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

Background: A copy of the Paradise Road board recently surfaced in James Ernest’s basement, after being abandoned for nearly 20 years. The game was first imagined in September 2005, but it shortly fell by the wayside. A hard drive catastrophe didn’t help, but the game was never very good to begin with. Working from the printed board and a vague recollection of the old rules, James reinveted this game in November 2024, and now you can print and play the 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 map that should be our next board? Please let us know!