But Disaster cards aren’t all bad. For each Disaster card in your Disaster Area, move your Dinosaur meeple forward 1 space on your Escape Route at the end of each round. What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger!

These traits will give you advantages or disadvantages when facing certain types of Disaster cards. The advantages and disadvantages of your Dinosaur Traits are added to or subtracted from your Point card’s value each round. For example, if you are playing as Nervous Rex, you will add 1 point to your score each round when facing a Predatory Disaster card and subtract 1 point from your score each round when facing an Emotional Disaster card. To calculate your score in a round, make sure to account for the Disaster cards in your Disaster Area, Dinosaur Traits, Point card effects, and Instant card effects. If multiple players tie for the lowest score in a round, Sudden Death occurs! Each player tied for the lowest score must play another Point card face-down from their hand. When all players are ready, simultaneously flip these cards face-up. The player with the lowest point value during Sudden Death adds the face-up Disaster card to their Disaster Area. During Sudden Death, Dinosaur Traits, Point card effects and Instant cards do not apply. No player involved in Sudden Death collects points for the round, even if their new Point card exceeds the score of the highest-scoring player in the round. You can use Instant cards to tip the odds in your favor or save your Dinosaur in a pinch. Instant cards state when you can play them.Looks like you’ve successfully delayed your inevitable extinction. Unfortunately, all of your friends are now dead:( But on the bright side, you’re a winner! Some Point cards simply show a point value, while others also have a card effect. These card effects may allow players to draw or discard cards, swap Point cards with another player, or even alter the round’s scoring rules. Unless otherwise specified, players may use their Point card’s effect after revealing their Point card, but before scoring occurs in the round. Lately, it feels like we’re all just dinosaurs trying to avoid the falling meteors. In this game, you’ll try to dodge all of life’s little disasters. You might fall into a pit of hot lava or get ghosted by your dino date, but the dino who survives it all wins the game! The Dinosaur world is full of disasters, just like real life! There are three main types of Disaster cards in addition to Meteor cards (which are extra disastrous). Each type of Disaster card is denoted by a color and a symbol: If scores are inverted in a round when multiple players tie for the highest or lowest score, the scores of all players involved are inverted. For example, if two players are tied for the lowest score in the round at 3 points each and the highest score in that round is 9 points, both of the players originally tied for the lowest score receive a score of 9 points for the round, and the player who originally had a score of 9 points now receives a score of 3 points. Note: inversion effects do not apply to Sudden Death; during Sudden Death, you always want to play the higher card than your opponent(s) to avoid adding a Disaster card to your Disaster area.

Each time you add a Disaster card to your Disaster Area, you may discard a card from your hand. This is a useful way to get rid of cards you might not want! If multiple players tie for the highest score in a round, each of those players collects points equal to their score in the round and moves their Dinosaur meeple forward on their Escape Route.In each round, scoring occurs after all players reveal their cards. The player with the highest score in the round collects points equal to their score and should move their Dinosaur meeple along the Escape Route on their player board accordingly. The player with the lowest score adds the face-up Disaster card to their Disaster Area. If a player adds a Disaster card to their Disaster Area, they may discard a card from their hand. A player’s base score equals the point value of the face-up Point card in front of them, but that score can go up or down based on bonuses from Dinosaur Traits, Point card effects, and Instant card effects (which will be explained in the subsequent sections).