SWITCHASAURUS! GAMEPLAY
Players: 2 Age: 4+
PLEASE NOTE: The first time you play this game, start with just six complete dinosaurs, advancing to a full deck once game play is understood.
Velociraptor, Triceratops, Brachiosaurus, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Pteranodon, and Mosasaurus are suggested.
GAME SETUP
Split cards into heads and tails to make these four stacks of roughly the same size:
Stack 1: All face down tails, which are green with the red fossilized tail of a Stegosaurus
Stack 2: All face up tails, which will show the back half of dinosaurs
Stack 3: All face up heads, which show the front half of dinosaurs
Stack 4: All face down tails, which are green with the red fossilized skull of a Tyrannosaurus Rex
The top two face up cards from stacks 2 and 3 should form the tail and head of a complete, but mismatched dinosaur, called a SWITCHASAURUS! For example, a “PTERANO-TOPS” SWITCHASAURUS! is shown here. These two exposed cards must not be a matching real dinosaur when gameplay begins. If the two face up cards do make a “real” dinosaur, such as a “TRICERATOPS” replace one of them so that a mismatched SWITCHASAURUS! is in stacks 2 and 3.
GAME PLAY
3. The youngest player goes first by flipping over one card from any of the four stacks and moving it to the top of its corresponding face up/face down deck. There are four possible moves:
Option 1: Flip a face down tails card over and move it to the top of the face up tails stack.
Option 2: Flip a face up tails card over and move it to the top of the face down tails stack
Option 3: Flip a face up head s card over and move it to the top of the face down heads stack
Option 4: Flip a face down heads card over and move it to the top of the face up heads stack
Any of these moves will expose a new half of a dinosaur paired with the other. NOTE: If stack 2 or 3 is ever empty, the next play must be a selection from its corresponding face down stack.
4.1: If the resulting exposed dinosaur forms a real matching dinosaur, active player keeps the head and tail of that completed dinosaur and collects them in their Dino Zoo. Then the same player plays again with the two newly exposed cards below. Active player continues play until the two exposed cards form a mismatched SWITCHASAURUS!
4.2 If the head and tail do not match , the next player clockwise is up. Continue in this fashion until all dinosaurs have been matched. The player with the most dinosaurs in their Dino Zoo wins.
Want an extra challenge? Pair this game with the points system of SWITCHASAURUS REX! and collect the highest value dinosaurs to win!
SWITCHASAURUS REX! is played the same way as SWITCHASAURUS!, REMEMBRASAURUS! and EXTINCTION! except each card has a point value:
►All ten completed herbivores are worth one point.
►The completed omnivore card is worth two points.
►The eight completed carnivore cards are worth three points, except...
►The completed Tyrannosaurus Rex is worth five points!
►The player with the highest point value in their Dino Zoo at the end of the game wins regardless of how many pairs they have.
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