My Funny Dinos Rulebook

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

• I. Game Components
• II. Overview
• III. Game Setup
• IV. How to Play
• 1. Excavating a Fossil Tile (Mandatory)
  • Excavation Success
  • Excavation Failure
• 2. Restoring Dinosaur (Optional)
  • Restoration Rules
• V. Game End
  • Scoring
  • Mission Tiles
  • Scoring Example

I. Game Components

• 40 Dinosaur fossil tiles: 8 Head tiles, 8 Tail tiles, 16 Leg tiles, 8 Event tiles
• 1 Paper board
• 5 Exhibition tiles
• 7 Mission tiles
• 4 Base tiles
• 1 Excavation tool (plastic tweezer)
• 12 Rocks (gray wooden pieces)
• 32 Small bone tokens
• 1 Amber token (first player marker)

II. Overview

Players become experts in dinosaur excavation. They will discover and restore dinosaur fossils buried under rocks. In their turn, they use tweezer to excavate fossil tiles. If a player collects one head, one tail, and two leg tiles of any dinosaur, they can restore and display dinosaur.

If a player restores one complete dinosaur with 4 parts same color, they will earn higher points. Additionally, the players can earn additional points if they achieve the mission on mission tiles.

At the end of the game, the player with the most points wins.

III. Game Setup

1. Put all the dinosaur tiles inside of the top box.
2. Properly crumple the paper board, then place the paper board face down on dinosaur tiles inside the box.
3. Place the bottom box, bottom side facing the paper board.
4. Flip the entire stacked box and components.
5. Lift and remove the top box.
6. Place 4 base tiles on the dinosaur tiles, but they should not be overlapped.
7. Place three rocks stack up on each base tile.
   • Tip: If someone is playing this game first time, you will be able to use two rocks for easier game.
8. The person who recently watched a movie of dinosaurs becomes the first player (Otherwise, the youngest player goes first). The first player receives the tweezer and the amber token.
9. Each player receives two small bone tokens.
10. Shuffle the mission tiles with face down, then randomly choose three tiles and reveal them. The rest will not be used in this game.
11. Set aside the Exhibition tiles and remaining small bone tokens to make the supply.

IV. How to Play

The game plays clockwise order starting from the first player.

Each player's turn will proceed with the following order:

1. Excavating a fossil tile (Mandatory)
2. Restoring dinosaur (Optional)

At the end of the player's turn, pass the tweezers to the next player.

1. Excavating a Fossil Tile (Mandatory)

Take out one dinosaur tile from the excavation area using the tweezer. If a player pulls a tile out without letting any rock fall, the player succeeds in an excavation.

Note: You should excavate the first tile you touched. You cannot change the tile you are trying to excavate.

Excavation Success

Place the excavated dinosaur tile in front of you. If the dinosaur tile has an icon, it is a event tile. The player who excavates event tile use its effect immediately. All event tiles have an event icon.

Types of event tiles are as follows:

• Exchange icon (two arrows): Immediately exchange 1 dinosaur tile with another player. You cannot exchange parts from an already restored dinosaur.
  • Note: You can exchange any dinosaur tile or event tile including this tile.
• Shovel icon: Immediately 1. Excavating a fossil tile (Mandatory) one more time.
• Bone pile icon: Immediately receive 1 small bone token from each other player. You will not be able to get one from a player who does not have any small bone token.
• Circled "2" icon: At the end of the game, get 2 points (All the other event tiles worth 1 point each).

Excavation Failure

Excavation fails when the following occurs:

1. Stacked rock pieces collapsed.
2. Fossil tiles fall outside the excavation area (paper board).

If one of the above happens, the player should stop excavation immediately. They cannot get any dinosaur tile this turn but receive one small bone token instead. Then stack up the collapsed rock pieces again on the base tiles and put all fallen tiles on the center of the paper board. Pass the tweezer to the next player.

Note: The player will be able to perform 2. Restoring dinosaur even though they have failed excavation this turn.

2. Restoring Dinosaur (Optional)

The player may restore the dinosaur using the collected tiles. If a player owns one head, one tail, and two legs of dinosaur tiles, they can restore and display a completed dinosaur.

Tip: The type of dinosaur can be identified by the color of the ribbon marked on the tile.

Restoration Rules

1. The player needs 1 head tile, 1 tail tile, and 2 legs tiles to restore. Special tiles cannot be used for restoration.
2. Overlap a head and body tile along the marks where legs tiles should be inserted. Then insert the legs tiles at appropriate positions. (Please see the image on the right.)
3. Bring a double-sided exhibition tile and place the dinosaur on it.
   • If a player restored a dinosaur to its original shape (using a single color), place the exhibition tile face up (the side with "10").
   • If a player restored a dinosaur to a funny mixed shape (using several colors), place the exhibition tile face down (the side with "6").
4. The player can only restore one dinosaur per turn.
5. The player cannot decompose the restored dinosaurs.

Note: T-Rex should be restored using two different types of legs to get 10 points (but both yellow).

V. Game End

When five dinosaurs are been restored during the game, players take turns to the right up until the player with the first player (with amber token). So when the game is over, there may be more than five dinosaurs that are restored.

Those dinosaurs will not have the exhibition tile, but they can get also points. The player with the highest points wins after the score scoring. In case of tie, the player with most total number of dinosaur tiles among the tied players wins. If still tied, the player with the most number of small bone tokens wins.

Scoring

1. Restored dinosaurs
   • Dinosaur restored with only one color tiles: 10 points
   • Dinosaur restored with two or more color tiles: 6 points
2. Remaining dinosaur tiles: 1 point each (including special tiles)
3. Small bone token: 1 point per 2 tokens. (0 point if you have only 1 token.)
4. Points shown on the acquired mission tiles

Mission Tiles

• Black border tiles: Get the tile and points at the end of the game.
• Red border tiles: Immediately get the tile and points when the condition satisfied.

Mission tile	Condition	Points
Black border (four tiles)	Player with the most specific color dinosaur tiles at the end of the game. Note: Event tiles also count as their colors.	2 points
Red border (numbered 3)	Restoring a dinosaur with four color tiles.	3 points
Red border (numbered 3)	Own 6 small bone tokens.	3 points
Red border (numbered 3)	Acquire 3 special tiles.	3 points

Scoring Example

• Restored dinosaur with one color, exhibition tile "10": 10 points
• Restored dinosaur with mixed colors, exhibition tile "6": 6 points
• Remaining dinosaur tiles: "1 point + 2 points" (as shown in the printed example, which does not break these tiles down further)
• Three small bone tokens: 1 point (3 tokens)
• Red mission tile (numbered 3): 3 points

Total: 23 points.