Draftosaurus
Your goal in Draftosaurus is to create the dino park that attracts the most visitors.
To do so, you have to draft dino meeples and place them in pens that have some placement restrictions.
Each turn, one of the players rolls a die, that adds a constraint for which pens any other player can add their dinosaur to.
Draftosaurus is a quick and light drafting game in which you don't have a hand of cards that you pass around (after selecting one), but a bunch of dino meeples in the palm of your hand.
Number of players: 2 - 5
Game duration: 6 mn
Complexity: 2 / 5
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Rules summary
Objective
Draft dinosaurs and place them in different zones to get the most points.
Gameplay
- The game consists of 2 rounds (or 4 rounds in a 2-player game).
- Each player draws 6 dinosaurs from the bag.
- The player with the placement die rolls it.
- Each player chooses a dinosaur and places it in their zoo at the same time, following the rules on the placement die (except the roller, who can place anywhere).
- In a 2-player game, each player then discards one of the remaining dinosaurs (you might like to imagine it was loaned to an overseas petting zoo).
- Each player passes their dinosaur bag and placement die (if they had it) to their left.
- Repeat until all dinosaurs are placed.
- After 2 rounds, proceed to scoring.
- At the end of the game you'll have placed 12 dinosaurs: 6 in round 1, 6 in round 2.
- In the event of a tie, the player who has fewest T-Rexes wins. If they are still tied, the players share the win.
- There are 6 species of dinosaurs, distributed as follows:
- 5p: 60 dinos. 10 x 6 different species
- 4p: 48 dinos. 8 x 6 different species
- 3p: 36 dinos. 6 x 6 different species
- 2p: 48 dinos. 8 x 6 different species
Placement Dice
- Woodlands: You must place the dinosaur in a green area.
- Grasslands: You must place the dinosaur in a brown area.
- Food Court: You must place the dinosaur in an area on the left.
- Restrooms: You must place the dinosaur in an area on the right.
- Empty Pen: You must place the dinosaur in an empty pen.
- Watch Out for T-Rex: You must place the dinosaur in a pen without a T-Rex (red). Note: You can still play a T-Rex this turn, as long as there isn't one already in the pen in question.
Pens
- Each zoo has 6 pens and a river.
- River: It is not treated as a pen. Each dinosaur in it provides 1 point.
- T-Rex: Each pen with at least 1 T-Rex in it scores 1 extra point.
Summer
- The Forest of Sameness: This pen can only hold dinosaurs of the same species. It provides 2/4/8/12/18/24 points depends on the number.
- The Meadow of Differences: This pen can only hold dinosaurs of different species. It provides 1/3/6/10/15/21 points depends on the number.
- The Prairie of Love: This pen can hold dinosaurs of any species. It provides 5 points for each pair of dinosaurs of the same species (couple).
- The Woody Trio: This pen can only hold up to 3 dinosaurs of any species. It provides 7 points if there are exactly 3 dinosaurs.
- King of the Jungle: This pen can only hold 1 dinosaur. It provides 7 points if your zoo contains the most dinosaurs of that species. Ties are broken in your favour.
- Solitary Island: This pen can only hold 1 dinosaur. It provides 7 points if your zoo contains only 1 of that species (Solitary Island).
Winter
- A Well-Ordered Wood: This pen can only hold two different species of dinosaurs in an alternating order, from left to right. It provides 2/4/8/12/18/24 points depending on the number.
- Lovers' Bridge (left and right): This pen is divided into 2 sub-pens, each of which can hold dinosaurs of any species. It provides 6 points for each pair of dinosaur couples with one member in each sub-pen.
- The Pyramid: The pen can only hold up to 6 dinosaurs. Two dinosaurs of the same species cannot be placed adjacently. It provides 2/4/6/10/14/21 points depending on the number.
- The Lookout: This pen can only hold 1 dinosaur. It provides 2 points per dinosaur of the same species in the zoo of the player on your right.
- Quarantine Zone: This pen can only hold 1 dinosaur. Move this dinosaur into another pen or the river before counting your points.