Strategic space racing board game

A game for one or more players, the game comprising:

• a playing board with a top playing surface defined by a single track, each track including a plurality of standard spaces, a plurality of planet spaces, a start and end space, a plurality of alien spaces, and a plurality of card-drawing spaces;
• a plurality of game pieces, two of each type;
• a spinner;
• two dice;
• a plurality of cards, each indicating an action for a player in possession of the card, the actions selected from advancing a number of spaces, retreating a number of spaces, switching playing piece location with another player playing piece location, moving a playing piece to a planet space, moving an opponent's playing piece backwards to the nearest planet space.