#4 PLAYER DRAGON PET GAME FULL#

If you were able to breed at least one pair of all five different colored dragons, you receive a five coin bonus. Any Dragon cards left in your hand that you were unable to breed gives you a penalty matching the number of coins shown. Players claim any Dragon cards still in the grid which they have Dragon Seekers on, mate them if possible and collect the bounty. Once the draw deck runs out, the game of Dragon Pets ends immediately. There are also Dragon Eggs that yield two coins immediately when collected and are also placed face-down into your scoring pile. Take them from your hand and set them into a personal scoring pile and collect gold matching the higher of the two amounts on the Dragon cards. Otherwise you are only able to use the passed along dice on your turn!Īt any time that you have two Dragon cards of the same color and opposite sexes, you immediately breed them.

#4 PLAYER DRAGON PET GAME FULL#

This is the only way to get the full pool of dice back into play. You can also refill the grid, calling out which spot you are filling before drawing the Dragon card. You may choose to catch dragons, which allows all players to take the card underneath their Dragon Seekers into their hand.

If another player already had their Dragon Seeker on the card you wish to claim, return it to the owner and pay them one gold coin for the trouble before placing your meeple there.Īs mentioned before, there are three optional actions available to you before you place your Dragon Seeker. Move the remaining dice to the matching discs of the next player. All dice used in this process are set to the side and cannot be used by other players at this point. You may use the white die to add or subtract its value from the die you are utilizing. Then place your Dragon Seeker on that card to claim it. Examining the dice, choose one and count the number of cards across equal to the pips shown on the die. On every turn you are required to take a final action of placing one of your Dragon Seekers on a Dragon card in the grid. There are three optional actions which each costs one gold to perform, which we’ll talk about in a minute.

On your turn you may choose to take a number of actions, which must be resolved in order. The white die is kept to the side for now.

The first player will roll all five included dice and place the four colored ones on top of their matching discs on the active player’s side. The rest of the coins form a bank and the shuffled Dragon cards are set by the previously-created grid. Otherwise, position doesn’t really matter.Īll players begin the game with two randomly dealt Starter Dragon cards, a player aid card, three wooden Dragon Seekers (meeples) and eight gold coins. The only limitation is a row or column may not have the same colored disc on both ends. Each player (up to four) takes control of one side of the square and places their four colored wooden discs next to each row. In fact, you’re doing so to breed them! And only by correctly matching up males with females will you score points for creating a baby dragon!Īt the beginning of the game you will deal out a 4×4 grid of Dragon cards to the center of your play area. Yes, you are trying to collect pairs of colored dragons. In our title we’ve referred to Dragon Pets as a matching game, but this isn’t just a dressed up version of Concentration. Once you see how Dragon Pets is played and the depth of strategy needed to truly be successful, you’ll understand why we now haul this to our weekly game night where we play board games with other adults. More specifically, it earned a spot in our Family Games recommendations!įrom looking at the box and suggested minimum age, you’ll get the impression that this is a kid’s game and more suited for our Games for Younger Kids list. After playing it a few times this fall, we knew it needed to be featured in our Holiday Gift Guide. If there was ever a perfect example of “don’t judge a book by its cover”, the new game by Japanime Games, Dragon Pets, is the one.

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