Abstract: A car race game apparatus, which includes a playing board, marked to provide a system of interconnected branch roads. The road system is sub-divided into multiple contiguous spaces, arranged between a START space and a FINISH space, such that each game player can move an individual token from space to space, in an effort to reach the FINISH space, before the other players. Selected spaces are marked, so that when a token lands on such spaces, the token has to be returned to a designated space near the START space. Also, a pack of direction cards is provided for directing a player to return his/her token back to a designated space, when the player's token passes through specially marked STOP spaces, located in immediate proximity to the branch road intersection points.