I am playing a board game with one of my brothers and a friend of his.  He tells me that it’s a modern adaptation of a very old game I’ve never heard of with some additional rules and a sci-fi aesthetic.  The fiction of the game is that each player is a participant in a race of some sort.

The first step of play is for each player to pick a character card for their racer and two additional cards representing the racer’s job or talent.  The art on the racer card my brother chooses depicts a hovering boat captain’s hat with a pair of robotic hands beneath it and no further body.  My chosen card depicts a pink shark holding a plushie with its fins.  The rest of the racer options are similarly whimsical.  Each of the racer cards has a colored border.  Half of the job/talent cards have colored borders and half do not.  Players can only choose a job/talent card with a colored border if it matches the border on their racer card.  As this is my first time playing, I go with the job card whose art seems to indicate that it’s the default recommended option for my character.  It depicts the pink shark lounging in a bubble bath and is titled “N.E.E.T.”

There are additional decks for action cards that are drawn from during play.  Normally which deck you are allowed to draw actions from is also limited by the border color on your racer, but the ability of my racer allows me to draw from any deck.  The tradeoff is that I can only draw five cards instead of seven.