Old Town Road
BGG rank
BGG #12,303
BGG rating
7.4

Old Town Road

2021

Rules assistance for Old Town Road

Plain-language explanations of turns, card effects and disputed situations, with official source references and saved question history.

  • 1 player
  • 10–20 min
  • Complexity 1.8/5

For 1 player

Rules assistant for Old Town Road

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Answers come from the official rulebook, with the page to check.

Old Town Road is a board game released in 2021 for 1 player and 10–20 minutes per game. It was designed by Gregg Jewell and its main mechanics are Hand Management, Solo / Solitaire Game, and Deck, Bag, and Pool Building.

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About the game

Old Town Road is an in-hand solo card game following your encounters with outlaws along the infamous road leading to Old Town. On your turn, you’ll use an action on one of your 6 face up cards, shooting targets or robbing banks to flip cards to increase VPs or to put cards to the back of your deck creating sequences of 3-card poker hands, worth VPs at the end of the game. At the end of the game, you’ll calculate your score by adding up points for each of your poker sequences as well as VPs for wanted posters and bank robberies. The game is composed of 24 character cards, 4 establishment cards, and the Old Town reference card.

Questions and answers

Old Town Road supports 1 player according to the catalogue. This is the publisher’s listed player count, so the game is designed for exactly that number of participants. Variants for other group sizes, if any, are described in the rulebook of your edition, so check it before setting up a different configuration.