{"id":6444,"date":"2022-10-26T10:13:28","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T14:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/?p=6444"},"modified":"2022-10-26T14:18:36","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T18:18:36","slug":"cardisaur-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/?p=6444","title":{"rendered":"Cardisaur Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Setup<ul><li>You have a deck (likely 52 just for consistency) of dirt cards. The back is, well, dirt. The other side has a mechanic. Mix them about the table, blank side up. Try to keep it about two cards high, but it\u2019s dirt, so there will be some overlap. The dinosaur \u201cskeleton\u201d can go anywhere that so pleases the players.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Objective(s)<ul><li>The goal is to trick families and social groups into spending time with each other and building a fun, informative sculpture.\u00a0<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Actions players take<ul><li>In clockwise order from the oldest player, players select a card of their liking to excavate. Upon picking that card, they can either be greeted by a dinosaur bone, a mechanic, or just more dirt. Each bone gets added to the skeletons, and rewards the player one million dollars. The instruction booklet will show you where to put it, and give you some fun facts about it. Mechanics can prompt other actions (excavate an adjacent dirt, lose a turn, draw again) and dirt does nothing. You\u2019re not going to find something every time. Real archaeologists almost never find something.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Ending the game (win, lose states)<ul><li>I don\u2019t think you can <em>lose <\/em>Cardisaur, I think you can just not be the person who completes the dinosaur. I think everyone wins because now you have a cool dinosaur sculpture. What I <em>could <\/em>do &#8211; in a world where I add a monetary value to the bones &#8211; is make players pay to excavate. Maybe everyone starts with 5 million. I just don\u2019t want to turn it into a competition. It\u2019s a fun little silly dinosaur game.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Setup You have a deck (likely 52 just for consistency) of dirt cards. The back is, well, dirt. The other side has a mechanic. Mix them about the table, blank side up. Try to keep it about two cards high, but it\u2019s dirt, so there will be some overlap. The dinosaur \u201cskeleton\u201d can go anywhere &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/?p=6444\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cardisaur Rules&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-design","category-game-rules"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6445,"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6444\/revisions\/6445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}