Rocky Road à la Mode Rulebook

Table of Contents

Components
Setup
Objective
Gameplay

Components

36 Treat Cards
1 Road Board
8 Location Cards
4 Reference Cards
4 Truck Cards
4 Truck Tokens
3 Wild Pop Tokens
9 Treat Tokens

Setup

Each player takes a truck card and places it on the table in front of them.
Shuffle the treat cards and deal 3 to each player. This is their starting hand.
Place the 8 location cards face up near the play area in four stacks. Each stack will contain two cards with the same location depicted. Place the card with the higher point value on top.
Place the road board in the center of the table. (Alternately, you may use the back of the four reference cards to create the road board. The road cards must form a continuous loop.)
Stack the truck tokens randomly on the start square on the road cards.
Place one wild pop token on each of the three pothole spaces on the road board.
Place the rest of the treat cards as a deck within reach of all players. Turn over the top 3 cards and place them face up in a row. (A discard pile will be created next to the deck during the game.)

Objective

The goal of Rocky Road à la Mode is to be the best treat trucker in town! The game end is triggered when a player reaches 9 loyalty points. Earn the most loyalty points by the end of the game to win.

Gameplay

Unlike most traditional card games, players do not take alternating turns. If your truck token is furthest behind on the road, you are the active player: you will continue to take turns until you pass another player's token. If you move onto a space with another truck, your truck goes on top. If two or more truck tokens are on the same space, the player whose token is on top is considered to be furthest back and is the active player.

On your turn, choose 1 of the following 3 actions:

RESTOCK: Draw up to 5 treat cards by moving your truck token the same number of spaces clockwise along the road (see page 5).
ATTRACT CUSTOMERS: Place a treat card from your hand under your truck card by paying it's time cost (see page 6).
SERVE CUSTOMERS: Discard treat cards matching a customer's demands and move forward 1 space on the road (see page 8).

Setup

Each player takes a truck card and places it on the table in front of them.

Shuffle the treat cards and deal 3 to each player. This is their starting hand.

Place the 8 location cards face up near the play area in four stacks. Each stack will contain two cards with the same location depicted. Place the card with the higher point value on top.

Place the road board in the center of the table. (Alternately, you may use the back of the four reference cards to create the road board. The road cards must form a continuous loop.)

Stack the truck tokens randomly on the start square on the road cards.

Place one wild pop token on each of the three pothole spaces on the road board.

Place the rest of the treat cards as a deck within reach of all players. Turn over the top 3 cards and place them face up in a row. (A discard pile will be created next to the deck during the game.)

Gameplay

On your turn, choose 1 of the following 3 actions:

RESTOCK: Draw up to 5 treat cards by moving your truck token the same number of spaces clockwise along the road (see page 5).

ATTRACT CUSTOMERS: Place a treat card from your hand under your truck card by paying it's time cost (see page 6).

SERVE CUSTOMERS: Discard treat cards matching a customer's demands and move forward 1 space on the road (see page 8).