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Grid Sports · Pen & Paper Horse Racing Game
Thirty horses. Eight real tracks. Pick your horse before the gate opens — no changing your mind once you've picked. Roll the whole field, rank by total, and see where your pick landed. The 99-1 longshot has never won. There's a first time for everything.
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Rules
Choose any horse from the field of 30 before the gate opens — no changing your mind once you've picked. Each horse has a trait: Speed, Stamina, Turf, or Mud. Check the track card to see which trait gets a boost and which gets a penalty this race.
For each horse: red die for column, blue die for row. Find the cell — SURGE, STRONG, STEADY, FADE, STALL, or STUMBLE. Each has a value. Apply any +1 or -1 track modifier based on the horse's trait. Roll 3 times and add for their race total.
After rolling all 30 horses, rank by total — highest wins. Ties go to better odds. Mark finishing positions on the track card. The favorite doesn't always win. The 40-1 shot occasionally does something embarrassing to everyone's expectations.
Win, Place, Show, or out of the money. Run all 8 tracks to complete the full Triple Crown + Championship Circuit season. Track your picks on the season tally — most wins across the circuit takes the title.
The Circuit
Every track boosts one horse trait and punishes another. Pick accordingly — or find out the hard way what happens to a Speed horse at Belmont.
Every horse in Grid Horse Racing has a trait — Speed, Stamina, Turf, or Mud — and a tier that determines how their 6×6 grid is weighted. Tier 1 favorites have more SURGE and STRONG cells. Tier 4 longshots have more STALL and STUMBLE cells, with rare explosions of brilliance.
Each track modifies every roll for the right trait by +1, and every roll for the wrong trait by -1. Over 3 rolls, that's a swing of up to 6 points — enough to move a horse from the back of the field into contention, or drop a favorite out of the money.
The notebook ships to your door. Two dice (one red, one blue) are all you add.
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Physical Notebook · Ships to You · No App Store Involved
Grid Horse Racing ships as a physical notebook with all 30 horse cards and 8 track cards. Add two dice. That's it.
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