Jurassic Park

Probably, each of us in childhood was interested in dinosaurs. I showed it somewhere in the 4th or 5th grade. Of course, the film “Jurassic Park” played an important role in this, and then the game of the same name on the eight-bit. It seems to me that humanity still dreams of someday finding in amber a poor prehistoric mosquito with dinosaur or mammoth DNA in order to please us with at least one clone of a representative of extinct animals.

Good utopia … In the meantime, scientists are solving this necromantic issue, you and I can now play with DNA, remove a diplodocus from an egg and place it in the park to the delight of visitors. Naturally, this can be done with the help of the board game Jurassic Island, which I have long looked at and have recently been able to play recently. Brick inside the box? The game box is really heavy. I thought that if I gave up all the tokens, it would feel better, but the miracle did not happen – the box turned out to be weighty anyway. Inside you will find a mountain of cardboard – a bunch of tablets, tokens.

There are all sorts of cards, different. But we are most interested in what is unusual, right? So this is also in Jurassic Island. For example, cool yellow transparent cubes (they are made to look like amber), on the edges of which DNA symbols are encrypted. Lab plates are made of double cardboard and have special cutouts for small DNA cubes. Another interesting thing is plastic pink dinosaurs, which I have not met in any game before. And a large green bag for small mepliks, but I do not recommend sniffing it, so as not to spoil your impression and appetite =) I have no complaints about the quality (except for the smell from the bag, but it is necessary to specially stick your nose into it in order to “enjoy” the aroma – secret easter egg =)). Cubes and a tablet – this is just a very class.

Park construction rules In this game, we need to build an amusement park where you can walk along well-groomed paths, eat ice cream, ride the rides and watch dinosaurs in cages. This is a Eurogame in which everything is decided by victory points, which are received for dinosaurs, buildings and completed tasks. With a bunch of components and a plump rulebook, you might get the impression that the game is quite difficult, but this is actually not entirely true. Now I will try to briefly tell you what you have to do in the game. The game is divided into rounds, each of which has 5 phases. In the first phase, we conduct research, for which we have allocated 3 Scientist tokens.

Scientists have a denomination of 1 to 3. Players take turns spending Scientists on the following actions: DNA research – put the scientist on a cell with a cube and get several DNA points depicted on the cube (the higher the scientist’s denomination, the more DNA we get); expansion of the refrigerating chamber in which DNA is stored – we increase the capacity of the refrigerator for any DNA (the larger the scientist’s figure, the more points you can move the limit cube); obtaining a genome – you can place one of the three genomes on your park tablet, thanks to which you can then reproduce dinosaurs of this species; pass – make a worker out of the scientist in the current round and use it in the 3rd phase.