How to Play Jump Drive | Official Rules

Develop technologies and settle worlds to build a space empire. Find winning card combinations! This fast paced game introduces players to the Race for the Galaxy universe.

Players place cards to build their empires, discarding other cards to pay for them. Cards placed score every round, producing points and card draws. You must balance your income versus gaining points. The game ends once anyone has 50+ points. The player with the most points wins!

Components

• 4 Survey Team cards (with gold backs)
• 112 game cards
• 4 reference cards
• 8 Explore markers
• 84 victory point chips

Setup

• Set out as many Survey Team cards as players, face up in the center. Put the rest back in the box.

• For your first game , randomly give each player one of the four preset hands of 5 cards, marked A, B, C, or Din their upper right and lower left corners. Shuffle the remaining game cards to form the draw pile.

• In later games , shuffle all game cards and deal each player 7 cards. Players each choose 2 cards to discard face down, ending with an initial hand of 5 cards.

• Put the victory point (VP) chips and Explore markers nearby.