Escaping Extinction

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Action Phase

All dinos take up to 2 Actions and any number of Free Actions.

Action Description
Travel
  • Spend 1 Food and move to an adjacent terrain tile.
  • If the destination tile is facedown, flip it face-up and place the matching resource token on it (if resource icon).
  • Leaving a Tar Pit costs 2 Food OR 1 Food + die roll of 3.
  • Traveling onto the Volcano causes damage equal to a die roll.
  • Traveling onto a tile with Lava Flow causes 1 damage.
  • Traveling onto a Secret Cave tile allows you to immediately move to the other Secret Cave tile for free.
Explore Not on Oasis or Volcano:
  1. If there is a resource token on your current tile, take it and add it to your Dino card.
  2. Draw an Exploration card.
Resupply On Oasis only:
  1. Refill Food from the Supply
  2. Move any Wood from your Dino card to the Launchpad
  3. If carrying a Rocket Part, place it on the Launchpad and flip Rocket Docket card facedown. If < 5 parts collected, flip up next Rocket Docket card.
Trade (free) Give or take any number of items (Food, Wood, Vines, Rocket Parts, Exploration cards) with another Dino on your tile.
Heal (free) Spend 1 Vine to restore 1 health on yourself or another Dino on your tile.

Meteor Phase

After all Dinos have taken their turn, draw the top Meteor card.

IF EARTHQUAKE:

  1. Flip all terrain tiles except Oasis and any tiles occupied by Dinos face down, re-shuffle them, and place them facedown around the remaining tiles.
  2. Return any resource tokens on the shuffled tiles to the Supply.
  3. Move the Meteor back 1 space on the track.

End Game Conditions

Win: 5 Rocket Parts, 8 Wood, and all 4 Dinos on Oasis/Launchpad
Lose: Meteor reaches Earth

Damage

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