Demo Hunt!
This 30-card "preview" edition is also an expansion set for a 6-player game of Dino Hunt!
We're trying something new with Dino Hunt. We printed 6,000 copies of a
special two-player edition. It uses real game components, but includes only 30
cards.
Most of these "Demo Hunt" games have gone to retailers, so they can see the game
and demonstrate it to their customers.
But we're holding about a thousand back for retail sales. These are a little bit
different from the ones that went to the stores! You can use this set either as a
stand-alone mini-game, or as an expansion for Dino
Hunt. The dinosaurs and energy tracks in the regular game are Red,
Blue, Yellow and Green. In this set, they're Purple and Orange, so you can turn
it into a 6-player game. The Special cards in this set are all the kind that are
good to double up on, so if you like the game, you can just drop this whole set
into your Dino Hunt box when you get it.
The complete component list for this set is:
- 30 cards. These are prototypes for the final card set . . . we made a
small format change so we could tell the Demo Hunt cards from the regular print
run, but the backs are the same, so they're completely compatible with the final
game.
- One Time Track
- Two Energy Tracks (one Purple, one Orange)
- Two soft dinosaurs for player markers (one Purple, one Orange)
- One set of Energy Track markers
- The rules. This is a subset of the real Dino
Hunt rules . . . we left out some of the rules that referred to
special cards not in this 30-card set. This gained us a page, which we used for a
letter to the retailers -- mostly necessary marketing gorp. (It mentions a
poster, which was in their sets but is not on the purple/orange ones sold at
retail. However, this poster will be inserted in Pyramid #22.)
To promote the game (advance sales to opinion leaders are good; all the marketing
books say so) we're selling this set on the Web
for $6.00.
You can supply your own 6-sided die.
Have fun. Play. Hunt dinosaurs. And tell us what you think about the game!
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