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The Great Dinosaur Rush

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2016 · 2-5 players · 60min · weight 2.13 · 763 ratings

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ID
179071
Name
The Great Dinosaur Rush
Year
2016
Rank
4157
Min players
2
Max players
5
Playing time
60
Min playtime
60
Max playtime
60
Avg weight
2.1333
Num weights
15
Bayes avg
5.86333
Average
7.01182
Users rated
763
Num owned
1359
Wanting
73
Wishing
379
Num comments
203
Fetched at
Wed Apr 29 2026 05:34:55 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Mechanisms (2)
Set CollectionStock Holding
Description (1039 chars)

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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