Railroad Ink Challenge: Lush Green Edition FAQ
76 questions players ask · Updated Nov 12, 2026 · Full rulebook
Components and Setup
Game Rounds
- Can a highway connect directly to a railway?
- Can you keep building from a double-curve half that is not connected to an exit?
- Can one half of a double-curved route be left unconnected, and how is it scored?
- Must you place every white route die each round, and in what order?
- Can expansion dice such as the Trail die be mirrored or rotated when drawn?
- Can you add to a route section you already drew from a die in an earlier turn?
- Why should you write the turn number in each square?
Special Buildings
Goal Cards
How to Score Points
Solo Mode
Forest Dice
- Can Forest dice be drawn without connecting to existing routes?
- How do Forest spaces score at the end of the game?
- Can Forest and River dice be used together, and how do they interact?
- Do forest dice have to form a straight line to count as one forest?
- Does a road or railroad crossing a forest tile break up the forest for scoring?
Trail Dice
- Does a Trail connect automatically to a station at the corner it touches?
- Do Stations linked only by Trails count as connected exits for network scoring?
- How are Trail networks scored when there are many stations, such as 12 stations linked by trails?
- Can a Trail die be connected only to other Trails, not to any route?
- Do Trails connect to mountains or cities on the Epic board?
- Does 'Connect at least 3 Trails to the same Station' need three different Trail dice or three station corners?
- Does a station count toward the 'five spaces with Trails' goal if only the station has a Trail connected?
- When you use a trail die, do you draw the whole trail or just add to an existing route?
Expansions
- How many rounds do you play when using Forest or Trail dice?
- How many rounds if you combine Engineer dice with Trail or Forest dice?
- How many rounds on the Giant board when playing two expansions?
- How many expansions can you combine in one game?
- Must you use both Street Lamp dice when you draw the Street Lamp result?
Railroad Ink: Arcade Expansion PackExpansion
Railroad Ink: Eldritch Expansion PackExpansion
- Do you get the all-clues bonus if you skip drawing some Investigation die clue results?
- Does a Madness Network with 3 Portals and 2 Rituals score as size 5?
- Do Portals created by the Portal Die count toward a Ritual Die Madness Network?
- Which Portal die is used for the Portal (teleport) goal cards pa, pb and pc?
- Do Tentacle dice activate universities and factories?
- Can a tentacle be drawn in a space that already has a dead-end or a tentacle end?
- Must the Investigator move the full number of footsteps shown by the Investigation die?
Railroad Ink: Electricity Expansion PackExpansion
- Can electrifying start from any square connected to an exit, regardless of which arrow comes first?
- Can the Accumulator be charged from a diagonal electrified square?
- Does the Accumulator's central space count toward a University?
- Does the Accumulator's central space earn the central-area point at the end of the game?
- Can the Accumulator and a Volcano start in the same center space on the Giant board when using Power Grid with Volcano?
Railroad Ink: Engineer Expansion PackExpansion
- How many Engineer dice can you use in one game, and can they go with another expansion?
- Can the Engineer Construction die change the results of other expansion dice?
- Does the Construction die's free placement also apply to special routes such as university routes?
- Can the Renovation die be applied again to a route that already has a Renovation route on it?
- Can Engineer dice be applied to a cell whose expansion content was removed, such as a cactus cleared by the sun?
- Does an interrupted rail or road on the Separation die count as a negative point?
- Which expansion dice must replace a route die?
Railroad Ink: Sky Expansion PackExpansion
- Can Airports connect to an exit placed next to them?
- Do two adjacent Airports connect to each other automatically?
- Can airline dice that show a road or railway be drawn anywhere?
- Can you start a new route from an isolated Airport?
- Do airports count as stations when connecting villages to networks?
- Can a network be made only of air routes and airports, with no highways or rails?
- Can an air route be drawn over an existing rail or road route?