Hold onto your butts!
PALEOVET
Designer: Will Thompson | Publisher: Absurdist Productions
In this entertaining family game, you play as skilled vets with a roar-some specialisation. You’ve answered the distress call, and your expertise is needed to take in and treat a field full of sick dinosaurs. You may be here to help, but these loveable giants are still a handful. Before letting them into your hospital, you’ll want to tranquilise them. Oh, and make sure they don’t wake up again before you’ve fully treated them. Nobody wants grumpy dinosaurs running round the corridors causing mayhem.
Players take turns to roll their dice, admit Mesozsoic patients, and cure them by matching rolled dice to the symbols on the cards. One by one, you cure animals and add them to your stack of success stories. Be warned, each turn you take, the tranquiliser wears off a little. If ever an uncured resident wakes up, they leave the hospital untreated. You lose the opportunity to score points for them, and if it was a carnivore who woke, they snack on another unsuspecting patient on their way out, losing you another scoring opportunity. During your turn, otherwise unused matching dice can be spent on buying extra speciality dice to use in future turns, or on upgrade cards that give you benefits or score you bonus points at the end of the game.