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Happy Little Dinosaurs
Year
2021
Players
24
Play time
60min
Min age
8+
Weight
1.38
BGG rating
6.15
BGG rank
#4589
Best with
4

MeepleMates notes for Happy Little Dinosaurs

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  • Happy Little Dinosaurs is available as a public board game page on MeepleMates for group planning and collection tracking.
  • Best with 4 player according to player poll data.
  • BoardGameGeek average rating 6.15 and BGG rank #4589.
  • Groups use this page to connect Card Game, Animals, Party Game metadata with real play history, ratings and game night notes.
  • Recommended player counts include 3.
Lately, 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! In Happy Little Dinosaurs, the first person to reach 50 points, or be the last Dinosaur standing, wins the game! During each round, you'll flip a Disaster card featuring a Natural, Predatory, or Emotional disaster. Each player will play a Point card in hopes of collecting points and avoiding the disaster. You will work to avoid all of life's little disasters and laugh as they happen to your friends. If you collect 3 Disaster cards of the same type OR 3 different types of Disaster cards, you will be out of the game. Point cards feature weapons, trinkets, and good luck charms that you use to collect points and avoid disasters. Each card has a point value between 0 and 9 that you will use when scoring a round. You can use Instant cards at different points during the game to tip the odds in your favor or save your Dinosaur from certain death. Player boards include your Dinosaur's traits, an Escape Route you use to track your score, and a Disaster Area where you will collect Disaster cards. You'll move your Dinosaur meeple along the Escape Route on your player board to track your score. Will you successfully dodge the disasters or get eaten by a prehistoric whale? Only the cards can decide. - description from the publisher

Categories

Card GameAnimalsParty GamePrehistoricHumorNumber

Mechanics

Hand ManagementSet CollectionVariable Player PowersTake ThatPlayer EliminationPush Your LuckCard Play Conflict Resolution

Best with how many players

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

Community votes from BoardGameGeek

Language dependence

Extensive use of text(3 of 5 votes)

Sub-rankings

  • Party Game Rank#487

Videos

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 · 08/08/2026.