Each player is a jungle explorer, and has to make their way along the treacherous path from Start to Finish:
You roll a die to move, but Mr Bunches decides how many steps to take in between the marked spaces. This is intentional: Mr Bunches hates to lose (he is always the red explorer) so by not marking spaces on all the boards, he can decide (as he did tonight, for example) that if you roll a six and are pretty close behind him you move 6 tiny little spaces so you stay behind him.
There is, of course, a T. Rex:
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| Scientifically accurate |
But the T. Rex only comes into play if you land on that space, in the middle of the board, labeled "Eaten By The T. Rex!"
If THAT happens, your piece is replaced with one of the pieces indicating that his head has been bitten off:
and you are either out of the game, or returned to start, or -- in one strange quirk tonight -- turned into an angel and then by magic your head is back. (That happened to my piece, I think because I looked sad at being out of the game.)
If a person makes it all the way to Finish, then you have escaped the T. Rex and also beaten it so that it turns into a fossil:
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| Pretty sure that's EXACTLY how fossils are made. |
It is a VERY exciting game that combines the best of science, board games, and the thrill of Escaping From A T. Rex!
