DINOTOPIA CARDS
INTRODUCTION
Card game for 2-4+ players.
Dinotopia Theme.
DISCLAIMER
Dinotopia is a licensed, copyrighted property.
This is merely a fan site.
THE DECK
The deck has 5 Suites:
C = Characters
D = Dinosaurs
L = Locations
T = Things
S = Situations
Each suite has 26 Cards.
Cards are numbered 1 to 13. Each Suite has 2 sets of 13 cards.
VICTORY
Players play games and keep a running total of their scores, until
Someone reaches 100 Points.
SETUP
Shuffle the deck.
The deck is kept face down, the discard face up.
Each player is dealt a hand of 10 Cards.
TURN SEQUENCE
On your turn draw 1 card from the top of the deck or the discard and discard 1 card.
If you have a Meld, score it and all players discard their hand and start a new round.
SCORING MELDS
Score Meld
10 Nest: 5 Flushes: 2 cards from each Suite
20 Hatchery: Double Flush: 5 cards each from 2 Suites
25 Skybax: Greater Flush: 10 cards from 1 Suite
15 Eggs: 5 Pairs: Any Suites
15 Sauropods: 2 Straights of 5 Cards each
20 Long Neck: 1 Straight of 10 Cards
20 Triceratops: 2 Three of a Kinds and 1 Four of a Kind
25 Brontosaurus: 2 Four of a Kinds and 1 pair
30 T-Rex: 2 Five of a Kinds
THE DECK
Card Name: Rank Suite
Temple Ruins 1 L
Egg Hatchery 2 L
Dolphin Bay 3 L
Pooktook 4 L
Volcaneum 5 L
Waterfall City 6 L
Factory Forge 7 L
Treetown 8 L
Polongo River 9 L
Rainy Basin 10 L
Backbone Mountains 11 L
Canyon City 12 L
Cornucopia 13 L
Deep Lake 1 L
Pteros Rookery 2 L
Ancient Gorge 3 L
Amu River 4 L
The World Beneath 5 L
Tentpole of the Sky 6 L
Forbidden Mountains 7 L
Sauropolis 8 L
Bent Root 9 L
Sky City 10 L
Sculpted Cliffs 11 L
The Time Towers 12 L
Crystal Caverns 13 L
Baskets of Fish 1 T
Skybax Kite 2 T
Vertebral Drawbridge 3 T
Scroll Reading Machine 4 T
Dragon Horns 5 T
Spiral Pocket Watch 6 T
Crystal Beacons 7 T
Helicoid Geochronograph 8 T
Dinosaur Eggs 9 T
Dung Wagon 10 T
Sandbox Writing 11 T
Longevus Tea 12 T
Tluca Mash and Cakes 13 T
Bamboo Pan Pipes 1 T
Musical Language 2 T
Pose Dancing 3 T
Dinosaur Vision 4 T
Signal Tower 5 T
Old Charts 6 T
Stone Sentinels 7 T
Carved Monuments 8 T
Historical Reliefs 9 T
Journals 10 T
Provisions 11 T
Sky Galley 12 T
Submersible Vessel 13 T
William Denison 1 C
Arthur Denison 2 C
Sylvia 3 C
Ambassador Bix 4 C
Children 5 C
Alec Orchardwine 6 C
Giorgio and Maria 7 C
Wing Ambassador 8 C
Koro Kidinga 9 C
Nallab the Librarian 10 C
Corpo Carters 11 C
Lee Crab 12 C
Toktimbu 13 C
Message Rider 1 C
Skybax Rider 2 C
Swamp Musicians 3 C
Malik the Timekeeper 4 C
Elder Brokehorn 5 C
Habitat Partners 6 C
Matriarch Nora 7 C
Melanie and Kalyptra 8 C
Instructor Oolu 9 C
Mammoth Guide 10 C
Levka Gambo 11 C
Cirrus 12 C
Nimbus 13 C
Triceratops 1 D
Oviraptor Egg Nurse 2 D
Maiasaura 3 D
Brachiosaur 4 D
Hadrosaur 5 D
Hatchlings 6 D
Dimorphodon Messenger 7 D
Ornithomimid Scribes 8 D
Apatosarus 9 D
Styracosaurus Escorts 10 D
Pachycephalosaurus 11 D
Ceratosaurus 12 D
Protoceratops Translator 13 D
Carnosaurs 1 D
Tyrannosaurus Rex 2 D
Deinocheirus 3 D
Pteranodon Scavengers 4 D
Muttaburrasaurus 5 D
Tuojiangosaurus 6 D
Rutidon Bellow Worker 7 D
Stegosaurus 8 D
Lambeosaurus 9 D
Parasaurolophus 10 D
Corythosaurus 11 D
Hylaeosaurus 12 D
Euplocephalus 13 D
Minor Injury 1 S
Misunderstanding 2 S
Shipwreck 3 S
Convoy Caravan 4 S
Long Journey 5 S
Difficult River Crossing 6 S
Study and Training 7 S
Ceremonial Ritual 8 S
Official Greeting 9 S
Conference 10 S
Arduous Climb 11 S
Dangerous Stunts 12 S
Cleaning and Mending 13 S
Conversation 1 S
Crash Landing 2 S
Dinosaur Olympics 3 S
Ring Riding Event 4 S
Feasting and Dancing 5 S
Victory Celebration 6 S
Dinosaur Migration 7 S
Echo Concert 8 S
Taboo Mystery 9 S
Exploration 10 S
Challenge 11 S
Freezing Nights 12 S
Festival Parade 13 S
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