Flamme Rouge FAQ
131 questions players ask · Updated Nov 10, 2026 · Full rulebook
The Goal Line
- Who wins when two riders cross the finish line in the same turn?
- Does a basic race end as soon as the first rider crosses the finish line?
- Does the race keep going after the first rider finishes so that 2nd and 3rd places are decided?
- Can a rider move past the last space of the track?
- Does a rider count as finished when the square just past the finish line is full?
- Is a rider that stops just short of the finish line counted as finished when a rider ahead has crossed?
Setting Up
- Do curved and turn tiles change how riders move?
- Can you leave starting squares empty when placing riders at the start?
- If a rider plays a 3 from the fourth row behind the start line, where does it end?
- How do custom track lengths relate to the energy deck size?
- What movement values are on the rouleur and sprinteur energy cards, and what are exhaustion cards worth?
- Are the exhaustion cards different for each player colour?
1. Energy Phase
- What happens when a rider runs out of energy cards?
- Where do recycled energy cards and exhaustion cards go?
- When does a rider's energy deck reshuffle, and do you take exhaustion to fill a short draw?
- Is there a hand size in the Energy Phase, or do you draw four cards every turn?
- Do you draw and play for one rider at a time, and can the order change each round?
- Can you look at the face-up recycled cards in your energy decks?
- Do riders move after each player plays for one rider, or only after everyone has played both riders?
2. Movement Phase
- Can a rider move through another rider, and what happens if it would have to stop on an occupied space?
- Do you always move the full card value, or may you stop short to avoid an occupied lane?
- Can a rider sit in the left lane of an empty square, and must a rider landing on an empty square take the right lane?
- In what order do riders move during the Movement Phase?
3. End Phase
- Are played exhaustion cards removed from the game for good?
- Do riders past the finish line still slipstream, and do they give slipstream to riders behind?
- Do riders who have crossed the finish line take exhaustion cards?
- When are riders who have crossed the finish line removed from the track?
- Does the rider at the front of a pack take an exhaustion card each turn?
- Does a rider that was pulled into a slipstream still take exhaustion?
- Does a rider get an exhaustion card when only one lane in front of it is empty?
- Is slipstreaming mandatory?
- Can players look at their own played cards after they are removed from the game?
- If a rider stops just short of the finish line when the race ends, does it get an exhaustion card?
Mountains
- Does a rider on a climb take exhaustion when the square ahead is empty but slipstream does not apply?
- How far can a rider move when its turn starts on, enters or crosses an ascent?
- If a card would carry a rider onto an ascent, where does the rider stop?
- Does a card played from a descent always count as at least 5?
- Can a rider on an ascent give or receive slipstreaming?
- Does slipstreaming apply across the finish line when the last space before it is an uphill?
- If a rider starts its turn on the last ascent square and ends just behind another rider, does it still slipstream after the 5-space cap?
- Can a rider on a flat square slipstream from a pack that includes riders on an ascent?
Additional Rules
Flamme Rouge: Grand TourExpansion
- In a Grand Tour, do the other riders keep racing after some riders cross the finish line?
- In a Grand Tour, do riders who finish in the same pack get the same time?
- How is each rider's finish time set at the end of a Grand Tour stage?
- Do the first two finishers get bonus seconds in a Grand Tour stage?
- How many spaces past the finish line count for Grand Tour timing?
- Are riders on the same team counted separately for classification times in a Grand Tour?
- How do the Grand Tour time-track tokens move, and are stage times carried into the next stage?
- Who wins a Grand Tour: the rider with the best time or the team with the most Tour Points?
- How are Tour Points awarded for the overall classification in a Grand Tour?
- How is a tie in a Grand Tour classification or jersey on a rest day broken?
- Who gets the yellow jersey in a Grand Tour?
- Do the jersey wearers get a special ability during a Grand Tour stage?
- If one rider leads two jersey classifications, which jersey goes to the second-place rider?
- In a Grand Tour team time trial, which rider takes the leader's jersey?
- How are Stage Podium tokens awarded when fewer than three riders cross the finish line, or riders tie?
- How much exhaustion carries over between Grand Tour stages?
- Where do carried-over exhaustion cards go before the next Grand Tour stage?
- Do played energy cards return to the deck between Grand Tour stages?
- How do you handle exhaustion cards on a rest day in a multi-stage tour?
- What do you do when the exhaustion cards run out during a multi-stage Grand Tour?
- In a solo Grand Tour, do you keep half your exhaustion between stages without adding more?
- Does Grand Tour have an official solo mode?
- What does the +1:00 time space mean at the finish of a Grand Tour stage?
- Can a rider with the Chase ability move up behind a rider in the other lane of the square ahead?
- Are specialist abilities mandatory when their card is played?
- Can the Chase bonus space let a rider on an ascent move more than 5 spaces?
- Can riders slipstream around a corner into a narrower tile?
- Can a rider on one split lane of a roundabout slipstream from or give slipstream to a rider on the other lane?
- When the inner lane is blocked at a roundabout split, do riders still slipstream into the outer lane?
- Must a rider take the outer roundabout lane when the inner lane is blocked beyond the split?
- How are riders tied on time in an individual time trial ranked, and how is each rider's time measured?
- Does a rider who crosses the line in an individual time trial still gain exhaustion that turn?
- Does Relentless stop exhaustion for a rouleur that plays the highest card in an individual time trial?
- Do specialist abilities such as Relentless, Nimble or Recovery apply during breakaway bidding?
- Can a Nimble rider move through a square occupied by crashed riders, or get past a blocked space?
- If two Nimble riders end on the same space, which one moves first next turn?
- Does a rider blocked on a Sharp Corner or Roundabout tile crash?
- When does the Recovery card return a recycled exhaustion card, and what counts as a recycled card?
- How many specialists does each player pick in a Grand Tour?
- How is a Grand Tour specialist deck built from the base decks?
- Can bot teams use specialist cards in a Grand Tour?
- Where do the minor tokens go after a Grand Tour finish?
- What changed between rulebook versions 1.0 and 1.1 of the Grand Tour expansion?
- When two riders pass a points token line in the same round, who gets the bigger token?
- Are bonus Tour Points on a tour of more than seven stages based only on the last tour sheet?
- Does a rider that only slipstreams behind the leader get the combativity point?
- Do you get your spent movement cards back between Grand Tour stages?
- How is the starting grid ordered for each Grand Tour stage after the first?
- On a descent, does a minimum-7 descender card still stop at an ascent's 5-space limit?
Flamme Rouge: PelotonExpansion
- Can you use two Peloton bot teams in a two-player game?
- Why are the Peloton stages numbered 7, 8, 9, 11, 12 and 18?
- How do you set up a stage for 5 or 6 players?
- How do you seat six players without the breakaway?
- Is the breakaway bidding mandatory, and when is it recommended?
- How are tied breakaway bids resolved?
- How does breakaway bidding work, and how many riders does each player send?
- Do Peloton and Muscle bot teams bid for the breakaway?
- How many exhaustion cards does a breakaway winner take?
- After the breakaway auction, are the cards recycled or reshuffled into the deck?
- Do breakaway winners move when the breakaway is decided?
- When do Muscle and Peloton bots move relative to human riders?
- In a Peloton attack, in what order do the Peloton AI riders move when they are far apart?
- Which Peloton teammate counts as the front when both are side by side and an Attack card is drawn?
- How far does the remaining Peloton rider move on an Attack card after its teammate has finished?
- Do Peloton team cards 2 and 9 still obey the ascent and descent rules?
- Can a Peloton or dummy rider played 6, 7 or 9 on the last flat space before a climb move?
- How many Muscle teams can you use with the Peloton expansion?
- How do you place dummy teams on the start grid with Peloton and Muscle teams?
- How do you place 12 cyclists behind the start line when the start tile has only 5 squares?
- Do riders slipstream on cobblestones?
- Does a rider take exhaustion when the square in front is an empty single-lane cobblestone?
- Can a human player lose a Peloton stage to the dummy teams?
- When three riders in a three-lane square slipstream into a narrower section, which riders move first?
- What does a Supply Zone (blue) track tile do in Peloton?
- Can you play the Peloton bot teams with only the base game by substituting exhaustion cards?
- Do solo bot teams take exhaustion cards, and what happens when a bot team runs out of cards?
- Does Flamme Rouge have an official solo mode with bots?
- How do the Muscle and Peloton bots choose their cards in solo play?
- In a solo Tour against bot teams, do human riders remove half their exhaustion between stages?
- Where do the three starting exhaustion cards go in solo play with dummy teams?
- If one Peloton bot rider has already finished and the Attack! card comes up, how far does the other move?
Flamme Rouge: MeteoExpansion
- Does Flamme Rouge: Meteo work with 5 or 6 players, and does it need Peloton?
- Can riders slipstream into or out of a square next to a crashed rider in Meteo?
- Can there be two of the same weather standee in a Meteo game?
- If a rider's landing space is fully occupied and in wet weather, does the rider crash?
- Does a crashed rider that ends up leading a pack after slipstreaming take exhaustion?