Raptor FAQ
64 questions players ask · Updated Nov 12, 2026 · Full rulebook
Setup and Components
- Where do the L-shaped tiles go during setup?
- Is an L-shaped tile a separate tile from the square tiles next to it?
- Where do scientists start, and where can new ones enter the board?
- In what order are the raptor and scientist figures placed during setup?
- Where do the mother and the baby raptors go during setup?
- Are fire tokens limited to the ten supplied, and can a token already on the board be moved to start a new fire?
General Rules
- What is the difference between a space and a tile?
- Do diagonally adjacent spaces count as neighbours for moving, shooting, or the mother's eating?
- Can a figure move onto or through a space occupied by another figure, such as a scientist through a scientist or a baby through a baby?
- Must a card's effect be applied if it is possible?
- Can Mother's call, or any card, place a baby directly on a half-circle exit or send it out through one?
Flow of a Round
End of the Round
Action Points of the Raptor Player
- When the mother puts out a fire, which fire tokens are removed?
- How do sleep tokens affect the mother's movement when she moves more than once in a turn?
- Do sleep tokens on the mother slow the baby raptors down?
- How far can the mother move with one action point?
- Can the mother put out a fire placed earlier in the same turn?
- Does the mother have to be next to a sleeping baby to wake it with an action point?
- Can the mother move onto an L-shaped tile, or be placed on one with Disappearance and Observation?
- Where do fire tokens go when the mother puts out a fire?
- Does a baby escape as soon as it steps onto a half-space exit?
- Can the mother move if her sleep-token cost is higher than the action points left?
- Does the mother need a new action point to keep moving after killing a scientist?
- Can the mother raptor move through a fire token?
Effects of the Raptor Cards
- Can Mother's call bring a baby onto the L-shaped tile the mother is standing on?
- Can Mother's call wake or move a sleeping baby raptor?
- If a baby is already on the mother's tile, must Mother's call move it?
- Can a baby already on the mother's tile move to another space on that tile when Mother's call is played?
- If no baby has a valid path to the mother's tile, does Mother's call move any baby?
- If the mother's tile is full, can Mother's call send a baby to a neighbouring tile?
- Can Mother's call (x2) bring a second baby past a path cleared by the first baby?
- Do card effects, such as Recovery or Fear, need the mother to be next to the target?
- Can the mother still use an action card while she has sleep tokens?
- Can a frightened (laid down) scientist take any action, such as moving, shooting, sleeping gas, capture, fire or a jeep?
- Can a frightened scientist be frightened again?
- Can the mother remove her own sleep tokens, and how many?
- If the Raptor player plays the same card as the Scientist player, does Disappearance and Observation still reveal the Scientist's next card?
Action Points of the Scientist Player
- Can one scientist put a baby raptor to sleep and then capture it in the same turn?
- Can a scientist move through a space holding a fire token?
- Can a scientist take an aggressive action, such as shooting or capturing, while standing on a fire token?
- Can a frightened scientist be stood back up by the Scientist player alone, and can it be stood up in the turn it was frightened?
- Can a sleeping baby raptor be put to sleep again?
- Can a baby just woken by a Recovery card be put back to sleep the same turn?
- Does a baby raptor block a scientist's shot at the mother?
Effects of the Scientist Cards
- Does Reinforcements card 2 place one scientist or two in the rebalanced edition?
- Can Reinforcements be placed on L-shaped tiles?
- Which baby raptors can a scientist's sleeping gas card target, and can card 4 put two babies to sleep from two scientists?
- Does sleeping gas from a scientist card count as an aggressive action?
- What happens when a scientist plays a Fire card but the fire tokens have run out?
- Can a new fire token be placed next to any existing fire token, or only one connected to a scientist?
- Can fire tokens be placed on spaces occupied by figures, such as baby raptors?
- Can a fire token be placed next to a frightened scientist?
- Can a scientist place fire on an L-shaped tile to block the baby raptors' exits?
- Can the fire tokens from one Fire card be placed by two different scientists?
- Does a jeep driving over fire put out only that token, or the whole connected fire?
- Can a scientist's jeep end its move on a space that has fire?
- Can a scientist that the mother ate return to the board as a reinforcement?
- Can one scientist be moved twice with a single Jeep card?