Jurassic Snack Rulebook

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

• Contents
• Setup
• How to Play?
  • The 2 available actions
    • Moving one of your own Diplos
    • Moving a T.Rex
• End of Game
• Effects of the Tokens
• Important
• Credits

Contents

• 4 Pasture boards (3x3 squares)
• 10 Diplo miniatures (5 blue, 5 yellow)
• 2 T.Rex miniatures
• 28 Grass tokens
• this rulesheet

Setup

1. Create the playing area by connecting the four Pasture boards the way you like, as long as each board has at least a whole side connected to another board (for your first game, we advise you to create a square; you will discover the other options later!)
2. Each player takes the 5 Diplos in his colour. They both place 4 of them on the spaces showing an egg in their colour, on the boards; the 5th Diplo is placed in a pool, in front of each of them.
3. Both T.Rex are placed in a pool on the edge of the playing area.
4. Shuffle the 28 Grass tokens, face down. Then, place them randomly on the 28 spaces of the board, without looking at them. You can start playing!

How to Play?

The blue player plays first. During his first turn, he will have to perform ONLY ONE action.

Then, the players take turns clockwise, performing TWO actions each turn. The two actions performed during a turn can be the same or different, and involve the same Diplo or T.Rex, or not.

The 2 available actions

Moving one of your own Diplos

Diplos are HERBIVORES. Eating Grass tokens is usually their main activity. A Diplo moves in a straight line until it is blocked by:

1. another Diplo
2. a T.Rex
3. the edge of the playing area
4. a Grass token. In this case, the Diplo eats the Grass: it replaces the Grass token, which is revealed to both players. The potential effects of the Grass tokens are resolved immediately, and then, the token is placed face down in front of the player, or piled up on previously gained tokens.

Moving a T.Rex

T.Rex are CARNIVORES. Very often, they scare away the peaceful Diplos. A T.Rex moves in a straight line until it is blocked by:

1. another T.Rex
2. a Grass token
3. the edge of the playing area
4. a Diplo. In this case, the T.Rex scares the Diplo away: It is placed on this Diplo's space in the playing area; put the Diplo back in its owner's pool.

End of Game

The game ends immediately when one of the three following conditions is fulfilled:

• One of the players has no Diplo left in the playing area; In this case, the player loses the game, and the amount of grass eaten by each player's Diplos is not taken into account.
• Either there is no more Grass tokens in the playing area;

OR

• During two turns in a row, NO player has taken a Grass token or scared away one of his opponent's Diplos out of the playing area.

In these cases, each player reveals all the Grass tokens his team of Diplos has eaten during the game. The player with the highest score wins the game!

In case of a tie, the player with the least Grass tokens is the winner. If there is still a tie, the players share the victory!

Effects of the Tokens

• BIRTH (x3) — Place a Diplo from your pool on the empty case of your choice. This token scores 1 point at the end of the game.
• RECON (x2) — Secretly look at ALL the Grass tokens on a Pasture board of your choice, without moving them. This token scores 1 point at the end of the game.
• AIR TRAVEL (x4) — Move any Diplo in the playing area to any empty space of your choice. This token scores 1 point at the end of the game.
• AIR RAID (x3) — Move a T.Rex already in the playing area to any empty space of your choice. This token scores 1 point at the end of the game.
• VOLCANIC ERUPTION (x2) — Remove two Grass tokens from the playing area, without looking at them (put them back in the box). This token scores 1 point at the end of the game.
• SURPRISE (x2) — Replace your Diplo with a T.Rex from the edge of the playing area. Put your Diplo back in your pool. This token scores 3 points at the end of the game.
• YUMMY (x12) — The grass is tasty, but you benefit from no immediate effect. This token scores 2 points at the end of the game.

Important

If a player reveals a Grass token, but cannot apply its effect (e.g. Birth when the player has already placed his 5 Diplos, or Air Raid when no T.Rex has been placed on the playing area yet), he secretly looks at TWO Grass tokens on the playing area, without moving them.

Credits

A game by Bruno Cathala, artwork by Camille Chaussy.

Published by: The Flying Games 24 rue Sibuet - 75012 Paris [email protected]

Packaging: Origames 3D Modeling: Dominique Breton