PaleoVet

We brought them back; now YOU have to save them.

PaleoVet is a game of cards, dice, and saving dinosaurs for 1-4 players, ages 14+.

In PaleoVet, you take the role of a paleo-veterinarian, drafting dinosaur cards from a central river, then rolling dice and spending icons for various effects, most notably curing sick and injured dinosaurs.

At the start of each turn, you remove a sleep token from each dinosaur in your hospital, which is, of course, bad, as these patients need forced rest! If you have an empty bed in your hospital, draft a dino from the five available, then roll your dice.

You start with three dice that show the three treatments needed to cure dinosaurs, a tranquilizer dart, and a wild icon. Spend treatment icons to heal your dinos; each one requires 1-5 treatments, as shown on their card. Any two matching icons can be used to acquire a single-use wild token or an upgrade card that provides a permanent beneficial effect; spend three matching icons to acquire more dice.

If you have tranquilizers and bed space to spare, you can take more dino cards into your hospital. However, if a dinosaur isn't fully cured and has no sleep tokens on it, it wakes up and leaves the hospital, and if it's a carnivore, it takes another dinosaur with it! Cured dinosaurs move from the hospital to your victory pile, netting you the point value on the card. When one of the three card stacks is empty, complete the round, then see who's scored the most from their veterinary efforts.

What's in The Box

• 40 tarot-size dinosaur cards
• 4 tarot-size reference cards
• 20 mini-size upgrade cards
• 30 mini-size solo mode cards
• 28 custom dice
• 18 cardboard DNA tokens
• 36 sleep tokens
• A rulebook