All Dinosaur Games:

Bambino Dino – Bitin' Off Hedz – Brainbox:  Dinosaurs – Burp – Cazaurio – Conquest of Pangea – Conquest of Pangea: Atlantis – Dig & Play Dinosaurs World – Dig That Dinosaur – Dino – Dino Business – Dino Booom – Dino Detektive – Dino Dig – Dino Dino – Dino Flip 5 – Dino Dodg-Em – Dino Drache – Dino Hunt – Dino Math Tracks – Dino Xcavator – Dinoland – Die Dinos sind los – Dinosaur Chess – Dinosaur Game, The: Survival or Extinction – Dinosaurier Memo – Dinosaurs Gotta Love Me – Dinosaur Island – Dinosaur King – Dinosaur Land – Dinosaurs Extinct? – Dinosaurs of the Lost World – Dinosaurs and Things – DinoX – Discovery Battling T-Rex Game – Dizzy Dizzy Dinosaur – Dotty Dinosaurs – Escape from Dinosaur Island! – Fossil – Fossil Island – Genesis – Giganten – Go Diego Go – Great–Dinosaur–Hunt – Im Land der Dinosaurier – Iridium – Jurassic Park Game, The – Jurassic Park III: Island Survival Game – Jurassic Park III: The Spinosaurus Chase Game – Jurassic Wars – Lost Valley of the Dinosaurs – Lost World: The: Jurassic Park Game – Mass Extinction – Playmobil Dinoworld – Prehistoric War P.I.G.s – Professor Noggin's Prehistoric Mammals – Rettet die Dinos – Revenge of the Dinosaurs – Run Dinosaur Run – Die Schlacht der Dinosaurier – T-Rex – Trias – Tyrannausorus rex – Tyrannasaurus Wrecks – Tyranno Ex – Valley of the Dinosaurs – Walking with Dinosaurs – Walking with Dinosaurs Card Game

American Megafauna

Phil Eklund; Sierra Madre Games-1997; Sierra Madre Games-2001; (five-player expanstion-2006); 1-5

The evolutionary contest between dinosaurs and mammals, starting with the Triassic (when these two megadynasties were on equal footing), through the Mesozoic (when dinosaurs had the upper hand), and into the Cenozoic (today's struggle between mammals and birds). Not a kiddie game (although the introductory game can be played by them) but a full-fledged, fairly realistic simulation. [synopsis] [summary] [DNA chart] [analysis] [errata] [variants] [scenarios] [playback] [pbem playback] [pbem playback 2] [background]
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Animality

Steven Diaz; Painted Horse Games-2007

A species begins as a single body part and evolves, gaining additional parts and abilities. Each turn players must choose between hunting, birthing, changing the environment (?) or developing a new effect. Eventually players can attack one another. For 2-4 players. [Check Availability]

Archaic Animalia

Lloyd Krassner; Warp Spawn Games-2008

Print-and-play card game in which primitive animals colonize Pangaea during the Permian-Triassic period. Each players is represented by one of Insects, Crustaceans, Mammals, Amphibians, Reptiles, Dinosaurs, Worms, Birds, Marsupials or Arachnids, each of which has its own special power. Board spaces are defined by temperature, elevation, and rainfall and players attempt to evolve their type for all three. For 2 players.

Dinosaurs of Catan

Rick Heli; 2001; 3-4

A variant for the popular game Die Siedler von Catan / The Settlers of Catan
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Darwinci

Martin Schlegel; LudoArt/Heidelberger-2009; 3-5; 9+

Game of auctioning precious bones and then putting them together as creatures. [Check Availability]

Evo

Philippe Keyaerts; Eurogames/Descartes-2001; 3-5

Your aim is to develop a new species of dinosaur including features such as weather, land (3 levels from sea level (warmer) to high mountains (colder), other players' dinosaurs, movement points, attacks and an auction system allows you to buy new genes (horn, fur, leg, etc.) in order to evolve your dinosaurs. The prototype was the winner of the Sim D'Or 99. [Review: Haag] [Review: Faidutti] [Check Availability]

Evolution

David Wells; Ariel/Fantasy Games Unlimited/Bütehorn; 1976; 2

This is played in rounds divided into three phases: Growth, Movement and Attack. Players begin by placing one piece on any intersection. Then in Growth, new pieces are placed for the existing ones, but not adjacent to any other pieces. The maximum size of a group is five pieces. After all growth is complete, Movement begins. Only groups of two or more pieces may move and moving has several other rules. Following this are Attacks. Each piece bordering an opposing piece may attack, calculating its strength from its neighboring pieces of the same color. The weaker piece is removed. Only one piece may attack in a round. At the end, for each occupied intersection a player receives one point. Also known as Guerilla. [Check Availability]

Evolution

Antoine Messiou; Super-Ape Games-2006; 2-6; 9+

Players attempt to lay their path of six cards in proper evolutionary order (from bacteria to primates) and have their token arrive at the last stage to win. There appears to be quite a bit of luck as one of the chief mechanisms is to correctly predict the next card to be drawn from the deck, based solely on what has been seen before. There are also event cards in the form of volcanoes and thunderbolts and the chance to affect other players by inserting dangerous cards into their paths. The chief purpose here is education. [Check Availability]

The Evolution Game

Simon Boswell & Phillip Lewis (Finland)-1997; 2-4

Simulates competition for territory with other species, changing environmental conditions, plagues, starvation, natural disasters, global catastrophes, mutation, ecological niches and the geological sequence from the Precambrian to the Pleistocene on an abstract board. [Check Availability]

Evolution

Bob Klingenberg; (unpublished)

Trivia game in which progress is measured by evolving into successively higher forms of life. Includes a deck of cards for each of the 12 phyla. [Check Availability]

Evolution in the Box

Jirí Mikolá; Jirasgames-2009; 2-5

Players begin play representing a forerunner of modern man, trying to find meat and evolve his brain, which helps hunting skills. Command cards are used to decide where the player's tribe will move and whether they will be able to hunt any mammoths. [Check Availability]

Extinction: The Game of Ecology

Stephen Hubell; Incredible Game Company-1993; 3-6

During the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous players try to expand their herbivorous dinosaurs as much as possible by "laying eggs" but their plans are impinged by carnivores and other calamities. [Check Availability]

Extinction

Gary Sinauer; Sinauer Associates-1968?/1970/1971/ Carolina Biological Supply Company-1978

An educational product. There were rules for several games, but only the main one seems to have any interest. Players represent a species on an island and have genes, reproductive rate, prey attack and defense, habitat, mobility, etc. Players can change their "genes" during play, with players eliminated by competition, being preyed upon, or over-population. The 1978 edition changed the reproductive attribute cards from a fixed litter size to a multiple of the number of creatures in an area. [more] [Check Availability]

Insecta

Phil Eklund; Fat Messiah Games-1995; 1-7

Mix-and-match body parts to create mutant bugs and try them in combat! Then mutate into new and larger forms. Detailed simulation of desert arthropod combat but easy to learn. 44 counters, 131 cards, 17 x 22" map. Rainforest and Trilobite are expansions to this game.
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Lamarckian Poker

James Ernest & Dave Howell; April 1999 issue of Games (the magazine); 2-6

Requiring only an ordinary deck of 52 cards, players follow the wrongheaded Lamarckian principles to "evolve" their hands into the best possible poker hand. [rules]

Intelligent Design vs. Evolution

Ray Comfort & Kirk Cameron; Living Waters-2007; 2

An anti-evolutionary game which attempts to propound the theory of intelligent design. Players move along the outside of a track by rolling the die. There are a large number of question cards which a player must answer correctly to advance. Includes two brain-shaped pawns. [Check Availability]

Origins: How We Became Human

Philip Eklund; Sierra Madre Games-2007; 2-5

This is the game of human evolution. Players begin as one of the Neanderthals, Cro-Magnons, Peking Man, Homo Floresiensis (often called the hobbits) or Archaic Humans and must progress through three eras, ending about World War I. In the first era they must develop their brains to become fully human. In the second era they domesticate plants and animals in order to harness energy. In the third era they exploit natural resources to gain even more capabilities.

There are a number of innovative game systems plus auctions and occasional simple conflict. The number of different technologies on the two-part cards is impressive. There are also extensive background notes (in English only with rules and components in both English and German). [more]
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Pangaea: The Evolution Game

Pyramid Games (UK)-1986; 2-6

The game object is to evolve from a lungfish into modern man. A set of event cards allow moving predators, evolving predators, and shifting continents. Somewhat high on the luck factor. A little like American Megafauna stripped very far down. Also known as Evolution. [Carolina Biological Supply] [Check Availability]

Primordial Soup

Frank Nestel; Doris & Frank-1997; 3-4

Amoeba compete and evolve, somewhat abstractly. [Variant] [Variant genes] [Review: O'Sullivan] [Review: Game Cabinet]
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Primordial Soup: Freshly Spiced Expansion

Frank Nestel; Doris & Frank-1998; 3-4

Adds new gene cards and enough bits and pieces to permit up to 6 players.
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Quirks

Eon-1980; 1-4; 7+

An evolutionary card game; out of print. Also published were Quirks Expansion Kit 1 and Quirks Expansion Kit 2. [Check Availability]

Shapeshifters

Neal Sofge & Michael Wasson; Fat Messiah Games-1991; 2-4

An evolutionary battle of wizards using shapeshifting magic to transform into a number of different animal forms and thereby destroy their opponents.
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Urland

Frank Nestel; Doris & Frank-2001; 3-5

A successor to Primordial Soup in theme only, probably one of the greatest successes from Essen 2001. Perhaps in response to complaints that every Primordial Soup turn was more or less the same, now one has at least three or four different types of turns. There is the turn in which one chooses the island of competition, after that the turn one spends only planning, after that the turn in which one goes last and has a very good chance of knowing what the land of competition will be and finally the neutral turn. As in the predecessor there are still gene cards which permit players to "break" the normal rules, but now the game is one of regional dominance rather than of feeding. In addition, in deciding to breed more fish (which will later walk onto land), one usually helps other players as well as oneself. There seem to be curiously few gene cards, but there is already precedent for an expansion kit. What many players may not realize and what designers will most admire is just how clean all the rules have been kept, how just by details like the clever ordering of the phases, the handling of the scoring track, etc., many extra and niggly rules, e.g. what to do about ties, have been very neatly avoided. Recommended for all strategists. [Check Availability]

Urland Expansion

Frank Nestel; Doris & Frank-2003; 3-5

Adds 10 new gene cards. [Check Availability]

Wildlife

Wolfgang Kramer; Clementoni; 2002; 2-6

Features up to six types of organisms, each adapted for a different type of landscape: eagles (mountains), bears (forest), crocodiles (water), mammoths (steppe), humans (savannah) and snakes (desert). Each player tries to expand into other landscape areas and evolve new abilities. When food becomes scarce, the types fight each other. Success depends on how well they are adapted to the landscape.
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Bambino Dino

Jim Deacove; Family Pastimes-2001; 1-6

Cooperative game for children who must work together to rescue a baby dinosaur.
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Bitin' Off Hedz

Cheapass Games-1996; 2-6

A simple race game that lets you use your own plastic dinosaurs for pieces. Dinosaurs can throw rocks at each other to knock the other guy back to Start, and they can accomplish the same thing by "Bitin' Off Hedz" (landing on the other fellow's square). You win by being the first one to get to the volcano and throw yourself in! It's a very simple game, which is usually short, but it can become interminable if too many players get on-board. [Check Availability]

Brainbox: Dinosaurs

Mindware-2008; 1-8; 8+

Players are allowed to study a dinosaur information card for ten seconds and are then asked a randomly determined question about it. Success results in keeping the card. The player having the most cards after ten minutes wins. [Check Availability]

Burp

Harald Bilz, Peter Gudbrod, Rainer Kröhn; Heidelberger Spieleverlag-1992/Mayfair; 2-4

Players represent a stone age village struggling to climb the evolutionary ladder by discovering inventions. [Check Availability]

Cazaurio

Patricio Peterson; SALO-2007; 2-4

Collectible card game in which humans fight to capture dinosaurs which have somehow mysteriously returned to the earth. Card types include dinosaurs, hunters, equipment and adventure. [Check Availability]

Conquest of Pangea

Philip Orbanes; Winning Moves (USA); 2006; 2-4

Species advance, evolve and battle on the super-continent which re-shapes itself during play. Apparently there is a great deal of randomness... [Check Availability]

Conquest of Pangea: Atlantis

Philip Orbanes (?) for Winning Moves (USA); 2006; 2-4

An expansion kit for the above game, it adds Atlantis as an additional continent plus a few other additions, as well as clarifying the rules to the main game. [Check Availability]

Dig & Play Dinosaurs World

4M-2008; 2-6

Inside this dinosaurs kit is a block containing dinosaurs which turn out to be the pieces to a roll-and-move game. [Check Availability]

Dig That Dinosaur

Joyce Johnson & Colleen McCarthy-Evans; Pressman; 2008; 2-4

Memory game in which players try to find all six parts of their dino's skeleton. Digging is represented by revealing face down cards. Educational in that real dinosaur facts are included. [Check Availability]

Dino

Reinhold Wittig; Hexagames-1989/Fun Connection-1992; 2-6

The board is a 6x6 grid, on which a jungle valley is shown. Each player runs a science team, travelling to the past to steal dinosaur eggs. Each player gets 2 play figures, then 6 nests are allocated to different playing fields with 5 dinosaurs to guard them. A meteorite is placed on a track which runs around the board. On his turn, a player may move a piece up to four fields. Unused points are used to advance the meteorite. Players must walk around squares containing dinosaurs. If it reaches an egg space, he may take it. The more eggs obtained, the greater the number of points. But take care to return to the present before the meteorite strikes, which ends the game. Positive points are awarded for eggs, negative ones for researchers still in the past.

Originally published Edition Perlhuhn as Iridium in 1988. [Check Availability]

Dino Business

Kevin Kim; Playoff Games; 2009; 2-4; 7+

Players represent investors in a dinosaur theme park. To create attractions they must acquire DNA that permits bringing a particular type of dinosaur back to life. Points are scored each time this is done, and for having one's own types grouped together. Thirty types of dinosaurs are available. [Check Availability]

Dino Booom

Dominique Ehrhard & Pierre-Nicolas Lapointe; Goldsieber-2004; 2-6

Children's action game of using plastic lengths to spear the dinosaur cards that appear on the day's menu. [Check Availability]

Dino Dig

Robert DelBusto & Jerry Niehaus; (unpublished)-2000; 2-6; 8+

Trivia game of racing around the world to answer questions and thereby earn bone cards. A player wins by putting cards together to create a complete skeleton. [Check Availability]

Dino Dino

Parker Brothers; 1994; 2-4

There is a plastic dinosaur with a long tail which connects to an electric cord. One can press the tail into the Dino, whereby the head and neck are raised. There is a turntable with 4 fields in four different colours and a joker field, on which all colors are shown. The colors are identical to those on the gem stones.

Each player gets a gem stone of each color. On his turn, each player turns the disk to determine a color. If one has jewels of this color, he puts them into the neck of the Dino. If he has none of this color, he removes jewels with a hammer, several of which may fall out. If any of these match the color, they are placed in the tail. Others must be kept by the player. The player who manages to get rid of all of his gem stones first wins. [Check Availability]

Dino Dino

Parker Brothers; 1994; 2-4

There is a plastic dinosaur with a long tail which connects to an electric cord. One can press the tail into the Dino, whereby the head and neck are raised. There is a turntable with 4 fields in four different colours and a joker field, on which all colors are shown. The colors are identical to those on the gem stones.

Each player gets a gem stone of each color. On his turn, each player turns the disk to determine a color. If one has jewels of this color, he puts them into the neck of the Dino. If he has none of this color, he removes jewels with a hammer, several of which may fall out. If any of these match the color, they are placed in the tail. Others must be kept by the player. The player who manages to get rid of all of his gem stones first wins. [Check Availability]

Dino Flip 5

Briarpatch-2009; 2-4; 4+

Essentially this is Memory using dinosaur tokens. The game tries to make it more difficult by presenting images that are almost, but not quite identical. [Check Availability]

Dino Dodg-Em

Colin Vout; Binary Arts-2000; 2

Each player starts with 3 dinosaurs on adjoining edges of a 4x4 grid. The object is to be the first to move all dinosaurs off the the other side. Prohibited are diagonal movement, jumping and entering the other's start area. Based on Dodgem. [Check Availability]

Dino Drache

Virginia Charves; Ravensburger; 1993; 4 [Check Availability]

Dino Hunt

Steve Jackson; Steve Jackson Games-1996 2-4

Collectible card game with booster packs; is said to have more real dinosaur information in it than Dinosaurs of the Lost World. Players travel back in time to capture different dinosaurs. Easy to learn and quick to play. The boxed set comes with 109 cards, as well as two booster packs and 4 plastic dinosaurs to use as playing pieces. The cards have information about the dinosaurs on them. Known as Dino Jagd in Germany. [Check Availability]

Dino Math Tracks

Learning Resources-2007; 2-4; 6+

Roll and move dinosaur pieces around the board, along thew ay reinforcing counting, addition, subtraction and place value skills. Includes game board, 16 dinosaurs, cards, a die and instructions for various levels of play.
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Dino Might

Richard Clewer; Learning Resources-2007; 2

These are miniatures rules by which various dinosaurs can fight one another, or humans. [Check Availability]

Dino Xcavator

Marvin Glass; Uncle Milton-2007; 1-6; 6+

For those who know the 1965 Milton Bradley game Operation, this is essentially the same thing, but the illustration shows a a T-Rex skeleton and the challenge is to carefully remove each bone from the dig site. Draw a card and answer correctly to earn a chance at removing a bone using the excavation tool.
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Dinoland

Andrea Angiolino, Fabrizio Casa, Luca Giuliano, Massimo Casa, Stefano Giusti and Marco Bardella; Clementoni-1993; 2-4

Each player leads an expedition to save dinosaurs, eggs, fossils and babies from a volcano-threatened island. Play is determined by a videotape with Professor Darmin on your screen as if it was at the spaceship window. The trick is that the professor's description matches the spaceship's current location so getting close to it will ensure success. [Check Availability]

Discovery Battling T-Rex Game

Discovery Games-2007; 2; 6+

This is the dinosaur version of Rock-em Sock-em Robots where players use controllers located in the tails of the battling tyrannosaurus rexes. [Check Availability]

Die Dinos sind los

Wolfgang Riedesser; ASS-1993; 2-4

The cards show different dinosaurs and the board a jungle as well as nests with colored eggs (nest tiles). Each player gets nest tiles in his colour as well as the suitable dinosaur. All figures start at the volcano. The remaining nest tiles are shuffled and dealt to the individual nests on the playing field so that that nobody can see where the broken eggs are. Each player is dealt three cards. On his turn, each player plays a card and then moves his piece. Cards alow movement of the dinosaur or the players. The idea is to collect good eggs from nests and avoid empty nests and broken eggs. In English, the title is The Dinosaurs Are Loose. [Check Availability]

Dinosaur Chess

American River

Not chess with dinosaur pieces, but a simple little game that has to do with shifting continents, etc. [Check Availability]

The Dinosaur Game: Survival or Extinction

Latz Chance Games-1995; 2-16

The board shows a long, serpentine track over which players move their pawns, propelled by die rolls. Each one represents a different type of dinosaur. Some spaces grant food tokens while others are perilous, e.g. natural disasters. In addition, it's possible, via cards, to be attacked by other dinosaurs. The winner reaches the final space while still having enough food remaining. [Check Availability]

Dinosaur King

Sega/Upper Deck-2005; 2

Collectible card game set in the Cretaceous era based on the television series for children of the same name. The set of over 150 cards include Spinosaurus, Triceratops and, of course, T-Rex, which the players send into battle employing simple rules. The cards also include barcodes so that players can scan them into their game consoles. Cards include background information, strength, type, element, technique and critical hit type. (In North America scheduled for October 2008) [Check Availability]

Dinosaur Land

The Clever Factory-2008; 2-4

Spin the spinner and move your dinosaur along the rainbow path. Watch out for the hazards. For young players. [Check Availability]

Dinosaurier Memo

Tesloff-2008; ?; 4+

Thirty-two dinosaur illustrated cards with which to play the traditional memory game. Illustrated by Maximilian Walter. [Check Availability]

Dinosaurs Gotta Love Me

Milton Bradley-1991; 2-4

Game for children ties into a television program. All the members of the baby dinosaur's family race to feed him by collecting creatures to store in the refrigerator. [Check Availability]

Dinosaurs Extinct?

Vivienne Springer & George Schimpf; Briarpatch-2006; 2-4; 5+

Players roll to move, trying to travel from the Jurassic era to the 21st century, dealing with other ice ages, volcanoes, meteorites, earthquakes and other dinosaurs. Available dinosaurs are triceratops, stegosaurus, corythosaurus and brontosaurus. [Check Availability]

Dinosaur Island

Parker Brothers-1980

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Dinosaurs of the Lost World

Mick Uhl; Avalon Hill-1987; 2-6

Said to have similarities to Careers. There is also a simplified ruleset for young children. Older players may get bored with it once they learn which strategies work. The game is based on the Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World novel. [Check Availability]

Dinosaurs and Things

Dr. Paul H. Izenberg and Michele Kotowicz; Aristoplay-1986; 2-4

A trivia game based on the Trivial Pursuit model, but oriented to dinosaurs. [Check Availability]

DinoX

Pressman Toy Corp.-2008; 1-4

This is a trivia game based on the BBC-TV (and Discover) program "Walking with Dinosaurs". Cards include 1500 questions. There are also four dinosaur skeletons, each of which has another piece added with the correct answer of a question. Also included is a DVD featuring show footage. [Check Availability]

Dizzy Dizzy Dinosaur

Pressman Toy Corp.; 2-4; 6+

In this racing game for children, wind up the dinosaur and watch him stomp. If he knocks your piece over, it must return to start. [Check Availability]

Dotty Dinosaurs

Orchard Toys-2007; 2-6; 3+

Players roll dice to match shapes or colors on their boards which permits placing dots on their dinosaurs. [Check Availability]

Escape from Dinosaur Island!

Ron Shirtz; Fractal Dimensions-1998; 1

Solitaire game of World War 2 marines battling a variety of dinosaurs and other megafauna such as sabertooths on a Pacific Island. [Check Availability]

Fossil

Klaus Palesch; Goldsieber-1998/Rio Grande Games; 2-6

Each player represents a paleontological researcher trying to make major fossil finds. Success brings more money and fame; failure the opposite.

The board is a 9x9 grid, each space of which is covered by a tile depicting a portion of a fossil. Each tile also contains a point value from 1-3. On the board are 2 stones, one of which can be moved by each player on his turn in order to claim a fossil. Fame is expended in quantity equal to the number of spaces moved. When the last tile of a particular fossil is removed, players receive points based on the number of components they have and the point values on those tiles. In addition, the player completing the fossil can exchange a tile he has collected with one of those from another player. Players who had no component in the fossil lose points which are then given to the player who had the most points in that fossil. [Rules] [Pictures of Tiles] [Pictures of Tiles]
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Fossil Island

Bonnie Hemstad; White Sand Games-2005; 2-4; 6+

Roll-and-move game your dinosaur along an eggshell path, but after you roll you need to solve an addition problem. [Check Availability]

Genesis

Reiner Knizia; Face 2 Face Games-2006; 2-4

The time is 250 million years BP, just after the great extinction. Players represent one of dinosaurs, reptiles, mammals or man trying to dominate the earth. Theme is very abstract in this tile-laying, majority-control game in which the right to place tiles depends on a roll of the dice. [Check Availability]

Giganten

Carlit-?; 2

Differently-equipped dinosaurs battle on a checkerboard à la Chess or Stratego. [Check Availability]

Go Diego Go

Éditions Gladius International Inc.-2006; 2; 7+

A Chutes & Ladders variant in which players try to rescue a baby dinosaur. [Check Availability]

Great Dinosaur Hunt

1993; 2-4

Trivia game said to last thirty minutes. [Check Availability]

Im Land der Dinosaurier

Ravensburger-1994; 1-4; 4+

Roll the dice, find the associated dinosaur part and add it to your dinosaur assembly. Available assemblies are triceratops, pteranodon, stegosaurus and tyrannosaurus. [Check Availability]

Jurassic Park Game, The

Milton Bradley-1992; 2-4

Includes board, stand-up visitor center, pawns and dinosaur figures (T-Rex, velociraptors, etc.). Play cards to race for the safety of the center, trying to hide in the maintenance sheds on the way and get more cards. Dinosaurs move via roll of the dice. Being caught delays final escape. [Check Availability]

Jurassic Park III: The Spinosaurus Chase Game

Hasbro-2001; 2-4

The race game includes board, four pawns Spinosaurus pawn and deck of 48 cards using artwork from the movie. Cards are played to escape the Spinosaurus and also to move the Spinosaurus so that it can catch one's opponents, which makes final escape more difficult. [Check Availability]

Jurassic Park III Island Survival Game

Milton Bradley-2001; 2-4

Includes board, 7 cardboard pawns, life chips cards, special dice and dinosaurs (T-Rex, velociraptors, pteranodons and spinosauruses). Humans are racing to escape the board; the dinosaur player tries to stop them. Movement is controlled by the die, as is combat. [Check Availability]

Jurassic Wars

Antony Brown; Dice Maestro-2009; 2-5; 8+

Dinosaur fighting game. Hits are scored by rolling dice. Card images are said to be computer-generated and very attractive. This company's products are produced entirely in the UK. [Check Availability]

Lost Valley of the Dinosaurs

Julian Courtland-Smith; Waddingtons-1985; 2-4

Explorers of a lost valley must dodge dinosaurs and a volcano to collect ancient treasure. [Check Availability]

Lost World, The: Jurassic Park Game

Milton Bradley-1996; 2-4

Includes cardboard buildings, pawns, helicopter and plastic dinosaurs (T-Rex and velociraptors). Human players try to escape the board via the helicopter while the dinosaur players try to stop them. Movement is controlled via dice. [Check Availability]

Revenge of the Dinosaurs

Crown & Andrews; 2-4

Roll a die to move your dinosaur, trying to avoid the tyrannosaurus rex. [Check Availability]

Run Dinosaur Run

Intromark Games; 2-6

Racing game for children – avoid the cavement, T-Rex and dangerous lava. [Check Availability]

Mass Extinction

Dinexco Inc.-1992; 2-6

The board shows a track over which players move their pawns, propelled by die rolls. Each one represents a different type of dinosaur. Some spaces grant dinosaur eggs or food tokens while others are perilous, e.g. natural disasters. In addition, it's possible, via cards, to be attacked by other dinosaurs. When the dinosaurs have reached the end of the track, the Mesozoic Era ends and the player having the most eggs wins. [Check Availability]

Playmobil Dinoworld

Thilo Hutzler; Schmidt Spiele-2008; 2-5; 4+

Cardboard pieces game in which players try to save dinosaurs from an erupting volcano. A die is rolled and the player tries to save dinos of that color by throwing a lasso. After five volcano die results the game is over. [Check Availability]

Prehistoric War P.I.G.s

Chris Clark; Inner City Game Designs-2005; 2; 10+

A P.I.G. is a plastic infantry guy and this is a miniatures war game of plastic dinosaurs and cave men (why do some think they are co-evals?) fight. [Check Availability]

Professor Noggin's Prehistoric Mammals

Outset Media-2005; 2-8; 7+

Trivia game on the early dinosaurs and mammals. [Check Availability]

Rettet die Dinos

W&L-2001; 2-4; 5+

Includes 1 board, 12 small eggs, 6 large eggs, 4 pawns, a colored die, a number die and a wooden ring. The board shows a circular path with 18 colored fields. In the center is the ring. In the course of play eggs are stacked within the ring to form a small nest. There are four versions of the game. The first is suitable for younger children. The active player rolls the dice and moves the pawn clockwise to the next space of that same color and puts two small or one large dinosaur eggs into the nest without letting them slip out, otherwise having to move backward or lose a turn. In another version the number die is used and anyone's pawn may be moved. This player must resolve the specified action. A third version uses only two pawns, the blue which represents a slowly approaching meteor. The other is used for all of the players who are working together to ensure that no eggs are lost before the meteor arrives. In the final version, each player has his own pawn and rolls both dice. The player decides which one he prefers to use and then moves. The components are quite attractive and the diagrams clear in their meanings. Title means "Save the Dinos". [Check Availability]

Die Schlacht der Dinosaurier

Roger Ford; Schmidt-1993

Battling dinosaur armies. [Check Availability]

T-Rex

Hanno & Wilfried Kuhn; Hans im Glück-1999/ Rio Grande Games-1999; 3-5

The theme sounds just like that of Dino: Each player runs a science team, travelling to the past to steal dinosaur eggs, taking care to return to the present before meteorites strike the earth, which ends the game. On each turn, the players choose to play high cards to collect eggs or low cards to be able to direct future collecting efforts. The winner will be the player who collects the most points in dinosaur eggs in the 12 rounds of the game. A mix of trick-taking, card counting and bluff. [Check Availability]

Trias

Ralf Lehmkuhl; Gecko Games-2002 2-5

"Trias" is German for "Triassic". Each player steers the fortunes of his dinosaur herds as they peacefully coexist on the splintering continent of Pangaea. The winner is the player who manages to dominate the most of the new continents before the meteor strikes. [Check Availability]

Tyrannasaurus rex

Sylvie Barc, Jean Charles Rodriguez, and Michel Lalet; Sélecta (Bénélux)-1993/Schmidt France-1993/ as Auf der Flucht vor Tyrannosaurus for Klee-1993; 2-4; 7+

Each player manages a different dinosaur, one of: Triceratops, Pteranodon, Diplodocus, Stegausorus. Each has different capabilities and attempt to fill-up their larders with trees. The Tyrannosaurus Rex is played by all the players. Action cards and simultaneous movement are the chief mechanisms. [Check Availability]

Tyrannasaurus Wrecks

Glen Frank; Fantasy Games Unlimited-1985; 2-4

Folio game about time travellers hunting dinosaurs and trying to avoid getting chomped. Includes two cardstock pages of reference tables, cardstock hunter record sheet and dinosaur record sheet, 17" by 11" cardstock hex map (the actual playable area of the map is 9.5" by 10"; the rest of the map contains a turn track and reference charts/tables), and 141 cut apart counters. Images: [Map] [Map] [counters] [counters] [Check Availability]

Valley of the Dinosaurs

Arrow Games, Ltd.-1977; 2-4; 7+

Based on the Hanna-Barbera cartoon series of the same name, the goal is to help the Butler family make it safely across the valley to the caves. The mechanism is to spin and move. Uses cardboard cutout pawns. [Check Availability]

Walking with Dinosaurs

Green Board Game Co.; 2-4; 7+

Race around the board attempting to evade the T-Rex and other evolutionary threats in order to evolve and survive the Late Cretaceous period. [Check Availability]

Walking with Dinosaurs Card Game

Gary Wyatt; Green Board Game Co.; 2-4; 7+

A trivia game based on the BBC series of the same name. Includes 70 large cards. [Check Availability]

Tyranno Ex

Karl-Heinz Schmiel; Moskito-1990/Avalon Hill; 2-4

A memory-based game of somewhat abstract evolution. [Review: Game Cabinet] [Check Availability]

• American Beginnings: The Prehistory and Palaeoecology of Beringia by Frederick Hadleigh West (Editor), 1999
• Atlas of the Prehistoric World by Douglas Palmer, 1999
• The Complete Dinosaur by James O. Farlow (Editor), M. K. Brett-Surman (Editor), 1998 [O]
• The Crucible of Creation: The Burgess Shale and the Rise of Animals by Simon Conway Morris, 1998
• Dinosaur Data Book: The Definitive Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Reptiles by David Lambert and David Suriano, 1997
• Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs by Kevin Padian and Philip J. Currie, 1997
• The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples by Tim Flannery, 2001
• The Evolution and Extinction of the Dinosaurs by David E. Fastovsky, David B. Weishampel, 1996
• Flying Dinosaurs by Philip J. Currie (Jan Sovak, Illustrator), 1992 [O]
• Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth by Richard Fortey, 1998
• The Penguin Historical Atlas of Dinosaurs by Michael J. Benton, 1997 [MV 567.9022B]
• Earth: Evolution of a Habitable World by Jonathan and Cynthia Lunine, 1997 [MV 573.2]
• The Structure of Evolutionary Theory by Stephen Jay Gould, 2002

• Als Deutschland am Äquator lag. Eine Reise in die Urgeschichte. von Volker Arzt, 2001
• Der grosse Atlas der Urgeschichte. von Douglas Palmer, 2001
• Leben in der Urzeit. Von den Dinosauriern bis zu den ersten Menschen. von Z.V. Spinar, 1976
• Lexikon der Vorzeit von Rodney Steel und Anthony P. Harvey, 1981
• Ursprünge des Lebens von David Norman, 1994
• Warum Elefanten große Ohren haben. Dem genialen Bauplan der Tiere auf der Spur. von Chris Lavers, 2001

• Bruno Faidutti's "La préhistoire"
• More Bibliography
• Play-By-Electronic-Mail game: Saurian Lords
• Understanding Evolution
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