RE: Paleontology card game

[Julia Heathcote <julia@juliaheathcote.com>]

My non-palaeontologically-inclined fiance bought it at SVP to keep him
amused.  He went through all the cards and didn't stop laughing for about an
hour.  Some of the trump cards you can play include having better quality
alcohol for your workers, or fiddling the publication dates on your papers.
Quality.  I'm sure there's scope for combining it with Dino-Opoly (yes, I
have that as well in my games cupboard) to make a very entertaining and
reasonably palaeontologically accurate game.

Julia

> I thought folks might be interested in knowing that someone's 
> come up with a card game called "Bone Wars: the game of 
> ruthless paleontology" at 
> http://www.zygotegames.com/games.html .  There's a link to a 
> PDF file of the rules in the FAQ section.
> The premise seems to be to pit Barnum Brown, Edward Cope, 
> Othniel Marsh and Charles Sternberg against one another for 
> prestige points.
> 
> Tom Turrittin
> OCLC Library Technical Services, Winnipeg