- PALEONTOLOGY THEME: In this family-oriented set-collection card game, you are a fossil-hunting paleontologist. Will your discoveries make your natural history museum the world's most popular?
- MULTIPLE WAYS TO SCORE: (1) Excavate fossils and build complete skeletons to display in your museum. (2) Increase the renown of your museum by completing groundbreaking research on trace fossils, like feather impressions and nests! (3) Score endgame bonuses for the theme of your museum.
- STRATEGIC BUT LIGHT: Card drafting, card management, set collection, bluffing, press your luck, and endgame bonuses, but quick to learn and easy to play. Play time: 30 minutes.
- FAMILY FUN: Kids love the dinosaur theme and digging fossil cards. Adults enjoy the strategic elements and quick pace. Parents appreciate the educational content.
- EDUCATIONAL: Created with the Field Museum for scientific accuracy. Includes a booklet on the science behind the game.
- JIGSAW-PUZZLE SCORING: Keep track of your museum's popularity using wooden puzzle pieces! Plus a bonus dinosaur scene on the backs of the pieces by internationally-acclaimed paleoartist Franco Tempesta. For a large-format puzzle, see our Ambush at Hell Creek puzzle.
- MULTIPLE WAYS TO PLAY: Play competitively (2-6 players) or cooperatively/solo (1-4) players in the variant "Cretaceous Creek," an entirely different way to play. Cooperatively excavate a dig site, using action points, grid movement, and pick-up and deliver, before a worsening storm destroys the fossils!
- COMPANION PUZZLE: If you enjoy jigsaw puzzles, check out the dramatic Ambush at Hell Creek 500-piece companion puzzle.
