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2016
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Description
The Great Dinosaur Rush — or the Bone Wars, as it's otherwise called — was a period of incredible advancement in paleontology (i.e., the discovery of fossils).
In The Great Dinosaur Rush, players compete to grab bones from the best dig sites, and build new dinosaurs for prestigious museums, gaining notoriety in the process by stealing bones, sabotaging dig sites, and otherwise impeding your fellow paleontologists.
The game is played over turns, each with two main phases: dig and build. During the dig phase, players collect different-colored bones from dig sites and perform actions. Some dirty actions give players secret notoriety tokens. Notoriety adds to players' scores at the end of the game, but having the MOST notoriety SUBTRACTS from the score! During the build phase, players create their dinosaurs from the bones they collected, maximizing them to score points in various museum categories: length, size, height, ferociousness, etc.
You'll have to play dirty if you want to win — just not too dirty!
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Tabletop Tokki Top 10 List at 12:34 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- thematic and engaging
- fun, strategic with humor
Cons
- rules complexity could be high for new players
Thematic elements
- paleontology and museum curation
- Dinosaur excavation and museum displays
- high-energy, strategic
Comparison games
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Area Control — central objectives and personal objectives shape scoring
- area control / market objectives — central objectives and personal objectives shape scoring
- notoriety mechanic — gain notoriety to score but risk losing points
- Set Collection — collect bones and build dinosaurs
- set collection / object selection — collect bones and build dinosaurs
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- Warp's Edge is a solo bag building adventure where you are going to be fighting off alien invasions of ships and destroying a unique mothership during the course of each play
- this is a super tight game over the course of just a few short rounds you are going to be playing cards and going back and adding cards in between so you can never reorder the past events
- it's a really unique mix of set collection tiny economic social deduction dexterity
- food chain island ... has been released as the first game in button shy's simply solo line
- tiny epic galaxies is my all-time favorites
- this game really blends dexterity and patterning with humor
- boomerang was originally released as just boomerang
- the great dinosaur rush ... captures so much joy and so much energy and excitement
- this is one of my all-time favorite designers scott alms
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Tabletop Tokki Top 10 List at 1:19 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- balanced mix of strategy and push-your-luck elements
- engaging set collection and resource management
- thematic and visually appealing dinosaur bones that create memorable moments
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Bone collection and dinosaur skeleton construction with competitive display value
- Paleontological dig sites and museum curation with seasonal displays.
- lightly thematic, crunchy, and playful with a hint of skulduggery
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- board manipulation — adjust museum boards to shape seasonal dino popularity
- Deck Manipulation — adjust museum boards to shape seasonal dino popularity
- player interaction — nefarious deeds and competition between players around scoring
- Positive Player Interaction — nefarious deeds and competition between players around scoring
- Resource Management — manage bones and museum spaces to influence which dinos are hot each season
- Set Collection — collect bones to complete dinosaur skeletons and score points
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Quotes (from this video)
- This list is based off of cold hard facts pulled from my dedicated logging of statistics for the entire year.
- What a blast.
- Based on the level of complexity and entry into the game, Hrien's Wall still feels like a huge comfort and a source of enjoyment for me.
- Plus, look at this cute little ghost.
- Easy to learn, easy to teach, portable, fun, great presentation.
- The alliances are so fleeting and temporary, it never feels targeted or bad.
- There's something so tactile and hands-on about this game that brings set collection and spatial puzzling to a new level.
- It is from two of my favorite designers.
- The way that the layers of different engine building and combos work together is just incredible.
- It is an absolute masterpiece of board game design.
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Gaming with Edo & Jessica Analysis at 14:28 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Inclusive, easy-to-run creativity with constrained components
- Accessible entry point for new players while still offering depth
Cons
- Specifics of scoring and deeper strategic depth are unclear from the clip
Thematic elements
- creativity under constraint, dinosaur construction
- Dinosaur-themed construction with constraints
- fun, approachable puzzle-like
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Block-based dinosaur construction under constraints — Players build dinosaurs with small pieces; creativity is guided by piece limitations.
- Low-barrier, accessible construction — Anyone can assemble a dinosaur from the provided blocks, emphasizing ease of play.
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Quotes (from this video)
- the mechanic is you lay out tiles and players use these chisels which are pretty cute
- this great dynamic that emerges is you're trying to do things and cut off large regions
- the tension around oh no like i might not have the majority more and then i'm not going to get as much
- the second mechanic is all these pieces are in separate bags… the piece that you're choosing has a huge impact both to you and to other players
- the aesthetic of expression having fun through creativity
- you flip it over and then they are like basically one unit you like clear down to just one unit
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Adam in Wales - Board Game Design Discussion at 12:54 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Unique tactile idea
- Strong thematic hook
Cons
- Unknown long-term gameplay depth
Thematic elements
- Team discovery and tactile interaction
- Dinosaur exploration and bone assembling
- Playful and tactile
Comparison games
- Takenoko
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Team-based drafting / resource gathering — Players cooperate to uncover dinosaur bones and assemble skeletons.
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Quotes (from this video)
- it's so silly isn't it it's so light it's so humorous
- let me show you how it works in flick up
- we're taking different themes we're mashing them together to create these games
- pandemic the cure is the best
- takenoko chibies is really good
- it's going to look fantastic
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer themed version of legendary would be all over it
- Dominion was the pure deck builder
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