![]() ![]() Each card has a point value between 0 and 9 that you will use when scoring a round. Point cards feature weapons, trinkets, and good luck charms that you use to collect points and avoid disasters. If you collect 3 Disaster cards of the same type OR 3 different types of Disaster cards, you will be out of the game. You will work to avoid all of life’s little disasters and laugh as they happen to your friends. Each player will play a Point card in hopes of collecting points and avoiding the disaster. In Happy Little Dinosaurs, the first person to reach 50 points, or be the last Dinosaur standing, wins the game! During each round, you’ll flip a Disaster card featuring a Natural, Predatory, or Emotional disaster. You might fall into a pit of hot lava or get ghosted by your dino date, but the dino who survives it all wins the game! In this game, you’ll try to dodge all of life’s little disasters. Although the initial response is to always play the highest cards in your hand, experience with the game allows the players to employ more subtle strategies based on the likelihood of their being able to win a round and an attempt to avoid having disaster befall their dinosaur.Lately, it feels like we’re all just dinosaurs trying to avoid the falling meteors. The expansions don't alter the game play, merely allow for larger groups of players and additional types of disasters to befall the dinosaurs. Playing with card point values between 3 and 7 tends to provide a more balanced game.Īccording to the rules, a game of Happy Little Dinosaurs should last between 30 and 60 minutes, however, the game goes by quickly and even a long game of Happy Little Dinosaurs doesn't feel as if it takes very long to play. Attempting to play with the point values about six removed results in the disasters taking on too great an importance. IN playing the game, we've found that this change makes it too easy for a player to reach the end of the point track and the disasters play too small a role. The rules for Happy Little Dinosaurs includes a variant for two players in an attempt to balance the game, however that rule, which eliminates cards with values between 1 and 3 and changes the rules for elimination by disaster. The Perils of Puberty expansion adds additional humorous disasters which are based on the worst aspects of growing up You are attacked by sabretoothed squirrels. The disasters are often whimsical in nature, such as "Life is going great.Just kidding of course. In a normal game, a player's dinosaur goes extinct when they collect either one of each of the three types of disaster cards or three of the same type of disaster cards. The other way to win is to be the only surviving dinosaur after disasters have caused all of the other dinosaurs to go extinct. One method is to be the first player to garner 50 points and move their little wooden dinosaur (called a meeple) along the pathway to victory. One ! card, for instance, is a score booster, which allows the player to "Add 2 points to any player's score this round." which implies the player can add the 2 points to their own score, but works better if it has to be applies to an opponent's score. The rules are not always entirely clear (and note that the first edition rules have a section reprinted, but a correction is available online). The player with the highest adjusted score moves along the path to safety and the player with the lowest score collects the disaster card. In addition, beginning with the lowest point holder, players can further adjust their score or their opponents score using the ! cards. ![]() For instance, the brontosaurus will add one point to the card played if the disaster is natural and subtract one if the disaster is predatory. After flipping the cards simultaneously, the numbers played are adjusted based on the characters the players are using. Each player places a card face down with the hopes of having the highest card when the cards are flipped. There are four types of disasters: natural, predatory, emotional, or meteors. On each turn, a disaster card is flipped over. An expansion opens up the possibility of playing as a pterodactyl or velociraptor.Įach player holds a hand of five cards, most of which have numerical values between 0 and 9, although some cards have an exclamation point on them. The basic game allows up to four players to take the roles of a stegosaurus, triceratops, brontosaurus, or tyrannosaurs rex. Happy Little Dinosaurs is a strategic card game from Unstable Unicorns which puts the players in the roles of dinosaurs facing extinction level events. HAPPY LITTLE DINOSAURS By Unstable Unicorns Unstable Unicorns $20.00/June 2021
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