This game lets you run your own Jurasic Park.
You collect dinosaur recipe, collect genes, construct dinosaurs, attract tourists, provide security (so that tourists don’t get eaten by dinosaurs), make more cash, buy more dinosaurs, after enoug objectives are claimed, whoever scores the most points wins.
Cash: Start player 15, next players one more (16,17,18)
Workers: 4
Genes: Basic 1, limit is 3 (black cube blocks 4), Advanced 0, limit is 1 (black cube on 2)
Other: 1 basic dino (1 threat), 10 VPs, total threat is 1, security is also 1
Objective Carsds: number of players + 1
(pick short, medium or long game deck to set different game length, main difference is higher numbers to meet e.g. get 5, 7 or 10 dinosaurs)
Plot twist cards: 2 (if drawn cards don’t make sense together, shuffle 2nd card and draw again)
When drawing attraction tiles (rectangular park tiles with meeple sapces on them and coin cost) only during setup - sort them by cost and put cheapest attractions on cheapest upgrade cost.
You have 3 reaserchers with strength 1,2 and 3. They can:
Each round there is one herbivore that requiers 1 strength to pick, one small carniovore that requires 2, and one large carnivore that requires 3. Place the new dino tile in the park, it has space for a single dino. (If it’s still empty when game ends -10 VP , but its only at the end of the game) DO NOT reveal a new dino, there is only one available per type per round.
Dinos cost genes to create. Pick a die and multiply the amount shown on the die by strength of reasercher. Thats how many genes you get. But black cubes are limit and all genes above are wasted.
There are two special die faces - “increase space on dino tile” and “get a worker”. Those require 3 strength to get and you only get 1 not 3.
Increase gene limits by moing black cubes. Move by total of your resercher strength.
Your resercher does nothing, but they will behave like an extra worker in phase 3.
One unused die with the most dots sets threat modifier for this round, the more dots the more angry dinosaurs are and more security is needed. Threat be explained in phases 3 and 4.
There are two rounds of buying upgrades.
Each player can
Types of upgrades:
Core lab upgrades your workers can use from the start of the game:
All spaces can only be used the amount of times equal to number of spaces, and some spaces require more workers. Only increase security or build padlock is not limited.
Threat and security is not limited to 10, use +10 and +20 tiles when needed, security increase cost is capped at 5 after you get to security 9+
Other lab upgrades say what they do on the tile.
Excitement is created mainly when you create a dino and should be reocrded on the excitement track. This is the amount of meeples you draw from the bag, your basic income and limits points per round.
Drawing red meeples is bad news, they are hooligans, they dont pay $ they don’t score VPs, they cut lines to get first, and they run faster from dinos when someone gets eaten.
Earn money for all yellow meeples (usually excitement - #hooligans).
Place meeples into the park spaces. Each dino can entertain one meeple. Each attraction can entartain as many as there are spaces. Hooligans cut lines and need to be assigned first. Other meeples didnt get into the park (but still payed).
Check threat and security (remember to include one unused die with the highest threat). For each point missing dinos eat one tourist. Hooligans run faster so they will be eaten last. For each meeple eaten lose 1 point (plus the meeple wont produce VPs), hooligans still lose 1 VP when eaten (and can only get eaten when all yellow meeples in the park were already eaten)
Yellow meeples still in the park get bonus based on the space. Usually 1VP, sometimes 2$. Hooligans score nothing.
Final scoring
Whoever scored highest is the winner
If tied, who has most money is the winner