Pressure Lines

Four glowing conduits. One hundred and five numbered Signals. One question every turn: where will yours land, and what will it cost you? Pressure Lines is a strategy card game about reading a board that everyone is changing at the same time. HOW IT PLAYS Every operator secretly picks one Signal. All the picks reveal together, then resolve in ascending order — so a low Signal can reshape the board before a high one ever lands. A Signal joins the Line whose last card is the nearest number below it. Not the shortest queue, not the emptiest Line — the tightest fit. A Line holds five Signals safely. The sixth routed there overloads it, and whoever sent it takes all the Pressure sitting on that Line. Play a Signal below every endpoint and you choose which Line to clear, take its Pressure, and start it fresh. That choice is a tool as much as a cost. Lowest Pressure wins. EASY TO LEARN, HARD TO…