Hell Racing was a clean contest once. Then Zaiki tore up the rulebook and made it Gaki Race: a brawl on wheels. You are in the stands, rolling the dice and betting Yan on the carnage.

1 The world

Three realms keep the order of things: Heaven, the Mortal world, and Hell. The sins and desires of mortals are refined into a substance called Yan, at once the currency of Hell and the source of every demon's power. Once a year the accumulated Yan is put back on the line in Hell Racing.

Then came Zaiki, the bastard son of Satan, who turned the contest into a brawl where everything goes. The racers ram each other, slash each other's tires, drain each other's Yan. Souls from all three realms crowd the stands to bet on the wreckage.

2 You are the bettor

Those souls in the stands are you. Your hands run the race itself; what you cannot do is steer who wins. You roll the dice that move the bikes and flip the cards that wreck them. The bets are locked, the dice are yours, and each throw decides who gets paid.

3 Goal & setup

Grow your wealth in Yan across the Hell Season. The player with the most Yan at the end wins. Anyone who hits zero is out.

1. Bank. Give each player 10,000 Yan.
2. Calendar. The Season is 5 Grand Prix, one per circuit.
3. Grid. Four Gaki line up on the grid. Two more are in development.
4. Decks. Shuffle the three card decks (DAMAGE, MOVE, FURY) and keep them in reach.

You place bets before the action they refer to, then watch luck resolve them. There are three places to bet.

1 INFERNO BET — the official book

The legal book of Hell Racing.

2 Mr. Deotto — the imp bookmaker

A small demon with a betting stall in the crowd. He always takes your bet and lends up to 1,000 Yan at 30% interest. Repay him by the end of the game every time you borrow, or you are refined into Yan. He takes the stranger bets:

• KO yes/no — does any Gaki get wrecked and retire.
• Pile-up yes/no — does a group brawl break out.
• Exact pole total — the exact qualifying total of the pole-sitter.

3 Guido Strozzino — the Yan Baron

The heavy lender, hands in Satan's vault. He lends up to 20,000 Yan at 10%, repaid at the end of the Season. He takes only bets above 3,000 Yan, and offers the same bets as INFERNO BET with slightly better odds.

★ Odds — INFERNO BET

A Grand Prix has two parts: Qualifying, then the Race. The players roll it out, but no one can steer the result. Luck alone decides.

1 Qualifying

Each Gaki rolls 2 dice. The lowest total takes pole (the closer to 2, the better). On a tie, the tied Gaki roll 1 die each and the lowest wins the higher slot. The qualifying order sets the starting grid: pole is slot 1, then 2, 3, 4.

2 The starting grid

The race runs from a high number down to 0. The first Gaki to reach 0 or below wins.

• The pole-sitter starts at a distance equal to the circuit's cell count (call it N).
• Each slot behind starts one cell further back: pole = N, slot 2 = N+1, slot 3 = N+2, slot 4 = N+3.
• Lower number = closer to the finish. Pole has the shortest run, the back of the grid the longest.

3 Racing turns

Nobody owns a racer. The players roll the dice themselves, passing them around the table, and each throw moves the next racer. In grid order, each Gaki takes a turn:

1. Move. Roll 2 dice and move that many cells toward 0.
2. Doubles draw a card in addition to moving: double 1 → DAMAGE, double 6 → FURY, any other double (2-2 to 5-5) → MOVE.
3. Resolve the card, then play passes on.

Turns continue, round after round, until every Gaki has finished. The finishing order sets the points and resolves the bets.

4 Overtaking

You always move your full roll, passing any racer whose cell you move beyond. If your move would end exactly on an occupied cell, you stop on the nearest free cell behind it. A Gaki with the Overtake ability ignores this: it takes the cell and pushes the other racer one cell back.

★ Grand Prix scoring

The original ladder ran to 8 places (10 / 8 / 7 / 5 / 4 / 2 / 1 / 0). It is trimmed to the current 4-racer grid and grows back as the roster does.

Three decks, all triggered by doubles. One reads as an attack, one as a maneuver, one as a demonic power.

1 DAMAGE double 1

A rival, or the brawl itself, has put you in its sights.

2 MOVE doubles 2-2 to 5-5

3 FURY double 6

Each Gaki carries a few Demonic Abilities. They are the only thing that bends pure luck.

Five real circuits of the Gaki Race world, one Grand Prix each. The Season runs them in order of difficulty: a warm-up first, the cruelest last.

Board cells are scaled from each circuit's total race distance (lap length × laps), kept in a playable 40-80 band. ZERO stays short on purpose: it is the proving-ground warm-up.

★ Track twists

One special rule per circuit, drawn from its real surface, and each bends the odds, so a bettor reads the track, not just the racers. First draft, to tune.

Track flavor

• ZERO — the proving ground on the edge of Hell. Wide straights, cruelly low grip. Every racer posts their first lap here.
• TOKYO — the only round in the Mortal Realm. Rain-slick alleys, pink-and-cyan neon. Yumi calls it the funniest track on the calendar. Yuki calls it the easiest place to disappear.
• HZ63 — the scrap-metal district where Koza was raised by Iron Tiger. Stray bolts pop loose and become someone else's puncture.
• SCARLAND — a wasteland of cracked clay and forgotten war. Long straights, but the surface chews through tires faster than anything.
• YELMORA — cathedral-tall spires of fused bone. Jäger memorised every spire from his cell window and has never lost a lap here.

Six Gaki, four on the grid now and two in development. There are no teams: every Gaki races as a lone rider, and every bet is on individual racers.

1 On the grid

2 In development

★ Glossary

The terms the game uses, in one place.