Solo Challenge Game 6 - Heat: Pedal to the Metal

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For the next game in my solo challenge I chose to  play Heat: Pedal to the Metal. Designed by Asger Harding Granerud, and Daniel Skjold Pedersen, and published by Days of Wonder. 2022

Heat: Pedal to the Metal is a Formula One racing game set in the early 1960's. Using strategic card play and managing your engines heat are keys to crossing the finish line in first place as you race on one of the four included tracks.

Each turn, all players set their gear, and choose a number of cards to play equal to the gear they are in. Then, in turn order, reveal the cards they played and move their car forward the number of spaces indicated on the cards. Another key to this game is managing your car's speed through corners because if you cross the corner line at a speed higher than the corner number, you have to move heat cards from your engine into your discard pile based on the difference between the two numbers. You spin out if your engine doesn't have enough heat cards to cover that difference. Never a good thing in a race.

Heat: Pedal to the Metal supports up to six racers, and if you have fewer players than that or play solo, you can simulate the other racers, called "legends," with the bot system that the game uses. In my first two races, I played solo with five bot cars which are controlled by flipping a card every turn and checking the numbers on the coloured helmets on the cards, which represent the same colour cars, and indicate how far each legend moves with each bot card flipped during the race having different speeds for each helmet.

The results:

Race One: Raced solo versus five other racers on the USA track and finished in 5th place.

Race Two: Raced solo versus five other racers on the Great Britain track and finished in 1st place.


The solo version of the game accurately portrays the excitement of the multi-player experience and the legends present a challenge to defeat especially for a new player with only the starting upgrades.

Will definitely play solo again.

 (For more info about the game including the complete rules, reviews, and game play videos follow the game links on this page.They will take you to the Boardgamegeek.com page for the game)

Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada

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