Railroad Ink: Deep Blue Edition FAQ
80 questions players ask · Updated Nov 12, 2026 · Full rulebook
Route Dice Reference
Game Rounds
Drawing Routes
- Can the unconnected part of an overpass or bridge face be extended later?
- Must a new road or railway connect to a matching route, or can it run alongside one?
- Can a road be connected directly to a railway, including at an exit?
- When is the rule to draw all four dice routes enforced, and what if one becomes impossible to draw?
- Must you place every basic white die you roll, even if the only legal spots cost points?
- Can you order your placements so that later dice have no legal spot, including placing a lake die first?
- Is there a legal space for a route die when no open route is left to connect to?
- Can a new route be started from a board edge that has no exit?
- Can routes you draw in the same turn connect to each other?
- Can a route touch an existing route's open side and create an error?
End of the Game
- Does a route that ends against an open lake side count as an error?
- Do exits with no road or railway attached count as errors?
- Is a route that runs to a non-exit outer edge of the board an error?
- Do unused exits, or exits blocked by lakes, count as errors or negative points?
- How many negative points does an open dead end cost?
Connecting Exits
Bonus Points
- Does my longest highway or railway have to reach an exit or be finished to score?
- If my network branches, which path counts for the longest highway or railway?
- Can a longest highway or railway pass through the same space twice?
- Do routes that touch no exit still count for the longest railway and the central spaces?
- Do stations interrupt a longest highway or railway?
- Does a lake interrupt my longest highway or railway?
- Do river squares count toward the central spaces score?
- Does an overpass count toward the longest highway or railway?
River Dice
- Must a river die face, including its bridge face, connect to existing routes?
- Can a river die face be drawn over an existing road or railway square?
- Can you ignore the bridge and port faces on the river and lake dice?
- Can a road or railway touch a river square without connecting to it?
- Do you have to draw both river dice, or can you use only one?
- When playing with rivers, do you score every river you draw or only your best one?
Lake Dice
- Does a lake fill a space that already has a road or railway on it?
- Does my smallest lake have to be fully enclosed to score?
- If I have only one lake, does it count as my smallest lake?
- Do lake tiles that touch only at a corner form one lake?
- When does an empty space fill with water automatically under the lake rule?
- Does a lake placed at the end of a row of empty spaces between lakes fill the whole row?
- Does a lake drawn in the middle four spaces fill all of them?
- Do I have to draw the lake dice, and must lakes connect to anything?
Combining Expansions
General
Railroad Ink: Arcade Expansion PackExpansion
Railroad Ink: Eldritch Expansion PackExpansion
- How is a Madness Network with Portals and Rituals sized for scoring?
- Do you get the all-clues bonus if you skip drawing some Clue results?
- Can you draw a tentacle into a space that already has a dead end or a tentacle end?
- Do tentacles count as railways or highways for activating universities and factories?
Railroad Ink: Electricity Expansion PackExpansion
- Does an Accumulator on the central University space activate the University?
- What does starting at an exit mean for the Electricity power grid dice?
- How do you charge the Accumulator when electrifying with the Power Grid dice?
- Does an Accumulator on the central space count as a drawn cell for the nine central spaces?
- Can the Accumulator and a Volcano both start in the centre space?
Railroad Ink: Engineer Expansion PackExpansion
- Can you use Engineer dice on the Giant or Epic boards?
- How many Engineer dice can be used in one game, and can they combine with another expansion?
- Can the Construction die's effects be applied to results of expansion dice?
- Can Engineer dice be applied to a cell that an expansion turned into a basic route?
- Does the Construction die's free placement also apply to Special Routes?
- Can a Renovation route be renovated again?
- Does the Separation die's interrupted route count as a negative point?
Railroad Ink: Sky Expansion PackExpansion
- Does an Airport connect to an adjacent exit?
- Do two adjacent Airports join automatically into an air route?
- Can dice faces that combine airways with roads or railways be drawn anywhere?
- Can a network be made only of an airport and air routes?
- Do airports count as stations for connecting villages to networks?
- Can you draw a route into an isolated airport from an adjacent space?