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Exposaurus

DinoSAUR bones and gems

Dinosaurs are always big attractions for visitors, so we are museum directors and compete for the best dinosaur fossils and gems.

Each player starts with his starting tile and museum tile, plus 1 paleontologist, 1 claim disc and 10 explorers. The Dino tiles are heaped loosely and face down in the middle, one per player is turned up. At the start of your turn you can call explorers back into the base camp; if you do so one explorer is sent to the National Museum and no longer available. Then you can turn up a face-down Dino tile - as often as you want to and are able to - and mark it with an explorer or - once in a game - with your claim disc which saves the tile for your exclusive exploration.

In order to excavate a fossil, that is, a Dino tile once per turn, you place as many explorers there as marked or still necessary. Then you add the tile to your museum, which can have a maximum size of 4x tiles. When gem circles are completed by placing the new tile you put the corresponding gems there. Your own explorers go to your museum tile, other explorers back to their base camp. Once in the game you can use your paleontologist to place fewer explorers for a certain fossil.

At the end of the game you score the number of gems of a color times the number of identical, adjacent Dino tiles; each color is scored separately. Explorers in the base camp score 1 point each, an unused claim disc 2 and an unused paleontologist 3 points.

Exposaurus is simply nice, a pretty set collecting game with some tactics when placing the explorers; thanks to the simple basic rules it can be absolutely recommended as a game for families.

Players: 2-4

Age: 8+

Time: 45 min

Designer: Ron van Dalen

Art: Ron van Dalen

Price: ca. 35 Euro

Publisher: Mücke Spiele 2011

Web: www.muecke-spiele.de

Genre: Set collecting game

Users: For families

Special: 2 players

Version: de

Rules: de

In-game text: nein

Comments:

Winner of www.spielmaterial.de competition

Dice version, with removing Dino tiles

Good for families with a bit of gaming experience

Compares to:

Pergamon for exploring and placing explorers, set collection games

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0