These traits will give you advantages or disadvantages when facing certain types of Disaster cards. The advantages and disadvantages of your Dinosaur Traits are added to or subtracted from your Point card’s value each round. For example, if you are playing as Nervous Rex, you will add 1 point to your score each round when facing a Predatory Disaster card and subtract 1 point from your score each round when facing an Emotional Disaster card. Should you play the Score Inversion card during scoring, you will invert the highest and lowest scores. See the Inverting Scores section above for more details. Score Sapper The player that scored the least points, takes the Disaster card revealed at the beginning of the round. They will add this card to their Disaster Area. Since they acquired a Disaster card, they can choose one of the cards from their hand to discard. This player played the lowest card so they lost the round. They add the Disaster card from the round to their board.

The Hungry Plant card allows you to swap the Point cards from two other players. The cards are swapped before any additional points are added or subtracted. Mouth Trap When you are only playing with two players, you should slightly tweak the normal rules to make the game more enjoyable. Next each player will choose a Point card from their hand to play. Point cards feature numbers in the corners. Once you have chosen a Point card, you will place it face down in front of you. This player has decided to play the “Bow and Dino” card. It is worth six points during scoring. Should you receive a Disaster card in a round, you can choose to play the Disaster Redirect card. Instead of receiving the Disaster card, you will give it to another player. Score BoosterLately, it feels like we’re all just dinosaurs trying to avoid the falling meteors. In this game, you’ll try to dodge all of life’s little disasters. You might fall into a pit of hot lava or get ghosted by your dino date, but the dino who survives it all wins the game! They can then move their dinosaur meeple across the grid on their game board. The player with the lowest score will need to add a disaster card to the disaster area on their board. Figuring out your point score is relatively easy. The Dinosaur world is full of disasters, just like real life! There are three main types of Disaster cards in addition to Meteor cards (which are extra disastrous). Each type of Disaster card is denoted by a color and a symbol:

While players are determining the final scores for the round, you can use the Special Star Fruit’s ability to double the effects of Score Booster (+2 to +4) and Score Sapper cards (-2 to -4). This effect applies to all of the Score Booster and Score Sapper cards including ones played to other players. Treenoculars If multiple players tie for the highest score in a round, each of those players collects points equal to their score in the round and moves their Dinosaur meeple forward on their Escape Route. The objective of Happy Little Dinosaurs is to either be the last player remaining or the first player to score 50 points. Setup When you play the Score Booster card, choose any player. You will add two to the score of the player you chose. You may choose yourself. Score Inversion You can see how your dinosaur traits help you by looking on your game board. Yet, some traits may have negative effects too, which can also reduce your score! So, make sure you remember to factor these into things when you play a card.

Each player chooses a dinosaur. You will take the meeple and board that corresponds to the dinosaur you selected. Place your dinosaur meeple on the start space on your board. The Fire Spray card lets you discard up to three cards from your hand when you play it. Flaming Chainsaw