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Dinosaur Island
Year
2017
Players
1–4
Play time
120min
Min age
8+
Weight
3.05
BGG rating
7.52
BGG rank
#288
Best with
3, 4

Board game

Dinosaur Island

Ilha dos Dinossauros

Designed by Jonathan Gilmour-Long, Brian Lewis

MeepleMates notes for Dinosaur Island

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  • Dinosaur Island is available as a public board game page on MeepleMates for group planning and collection tracking.
  • Best with 3, 4 players according to player poll data.
  • BoardGameGeek average rating 7.52 and BGG rank #288.
  • Groups use this page to connect Animals, Economic, Science Fiction metadata with real play history, ratings and game night notes.
  • Recommended player counts include 1, 2.
In Dinosaur Island, players will have to collect DNA, research the DNA sequences of extinct dinosaur species, and then combine the ancient DNA in the correct sequence to bring these prehistoric creatures back to life. Dino cooking! All players will compete to build the most thrilling park each season, and then work to attract (and keep alive!) the most visitors each season that the park opens. Dinosaur Island is a worker placement game where players build attractions and add dinosaurs to gain victory points. At the beginning of every game two Plot-Twist cards will be dealt out that will break the rules of the game in myriad ways. These rule-changes will drastically alter your strategy and decision making throughout the game. In addition to the Plot Twists, the goal cards in each game will be unique. The game ends when a round finishes with one 1 Objective card left. Players total their points and the player with the most victory points wins.

Categories

AnimalsEconomicScience Fiction

Mechanics

Action PointsDice RollingIncomeSet CollectionTile PlacementWorker Placement

Best with how many players

1
Recommended
2
Recommended
3
Best
4
Best
4+
Not rec.

Community votes from BoardGameGeek

Language dependence

Moderate in-game text(11 of 19 votes)

Sub-rankings

  • Strategy Game Rank#225

Videos

YouTube9

Instructional9

BoardGameGeek4

Review2

Unboxing1

Other1

External data

No Wikidata data is stored for this game yet. If the scheduled enrichment has run recently, Wikidata probably has no BGG mapping for it.

Latest Wikidata run: ok · 09/12/2026.