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BONE WARS: The Game of Ruthless Paleontology
In
BONE WARS, players take the role of paleontologists during the great "Dinosaur
Rush" of the late 19th Century.
Out in the field, fossil hunters must survive natural disasters and attempts by other players to steal and destroy dinosaur bones.
Back at the museum,
the conflict continues when the scientists carry their battle to the newspapers
and scientific j
ournals
as they race to achieve scientific immortality!
Most of the wild
events in BONE WARS are based on things which actually happened. Edward
Drinker Cope really
did mount a elasmosaur's head on the wrong end of the skeleton, and then
tried to buy up and destroy all the copies of the journal describing it.
O. C. Marsh really did use his personal fortune to hire away all the best
fossil collectors from rivals. And the indestructible Charles Sternberg
had to outrun flash floods in western canyons. For a time the personal
feud between Cope and Marsh involved everyone from the U.S. Geological
Survey to the editors of the New York Herald.
BONE WARS is a fast-paced
game for 2 to 4 players ages 1
0
and up.
Each BONE WARS set contains 4 Paleontologist cards, 33 dinosaur bone cards, and 71 Event cards. Each card features color illustrations by artist Bryant P. Johnson.
BONE WARS was created by our team of biologist Diane A. Kelly and game designer James L. Cambias.
Retail price $19.95
ISBN 0-9770419-0-5
Stock Number 010501
