After creating several online card games and an online version of an old family game we called Tally Ho, I decided to create an online game to honor Route 66. Route 66 was the historic route between Chicago and Santa Monica. In the mid 60's I drove a small portion of Route 66 as I and my friend Bob Brissinger traveled between Los Angeles and Winslow Arizona.

Several road trip board games existed, and I decided to use a modified approach based losely on "Touring", a card game developed by William Janson Roche and produced by the Wallie Dorr Company in 1906. A similar card game which is more familar to most of us is Mille Bornes, created by Edmund Dujardin in 1954. Both of these games require a Green Light or Go card before allowing mileage cards to be played. Mileage cards would determine the number of miles the player advanced in their race. Both games also include Road Hazards which require specific remedy cards.

For my game, I wanted a mixture of cards and dice rolls. I chose to use a fixed number of travel segments rather then a fixed number of miles to travel. I decided to include an Easy version and an Advanced version. The Easy version would require dice rolls to determine whether the player was able to move ahead or whether they were stopped. Cards would be used to identify why they were stopped. The Advanced version would be truer to the Touring game in it's use of cards to cause other players to have road problems and delays, and movement and remedy cards to allow forward movement for the player. The Advanced game would use a RPG (role playing game) approach where dice would be used to determine how severe a delay might be (how many turns would be lost), and how far (how many segments) a player would advance.

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