NASCAR Champions (1998)

About this game

It looks a bit like Daytona 500 with its oversized racetrack gameboard, but it's a much simpler game. The main thing going on is that you roll the five dice on your turn and pick which three you want to play. Each die has the five colors for the five cars in the race and one "checkered flag" side which means you draw a card. The dice are numbered 1 to 5 (that is, each die has one of the five numbers), and the three you pick have to be played in order. If you draw a card, it might instruct you to move a particular car, or the car in last place, or to spin a car out; or it might make you a "Sponsor" of a car, meaning you could get prize money for a car other than your main car.

Does it fit your group?

• Group size. Works with 2 to 5.
• Rules load. At 1.1/5 this is a light game — explain it in a few minutes, good for a table that has not played much.
• Age. The publisher suggests 8 and up. That rates the rules rather than the artwork, so judge the box yourself for younger players.