Trias
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Trias is a board game
authored by Ralf Lehmkuhl. It is distributed by Rio Grande Games
, Tilsit Editions
and Gecko Games.
The game is set in the Triassic period. Players maneuver dinosaur
-shaped pieces and manage the "continental drift
" of hexagonal tiles in order to spread their species and dominate the continents that make up the playing board, scoring points as they do so. The end of the game is when a meteor
hits the earth, and the player with the most points wins.
The first edition of this game contains cubed wooden pieces to represent the dinosaurs. The second and later editions of the game contain vaguely dinosaur-shaped wooden playing pieces.
Board game
A board game is a game which involves counters or pieces being moved on a pre-marked surface or "board", according to a set of rules. Games may be based on pure strategy, chance or a mixture of the two, and usually have a goal which a player aims to achieve...
authored by Ralf Lehmkuhl. It is distributed by Rio Grande Games
Rio Grande Games
Rio Grande Games is a board game publisher based in Rio Rancho, New Mexico. The company primarily imports and localizes foreign language German-style board games.-History:...
, Tilsit Editions
Tilsit Editions
Tilsit Éditions is a French game publisher started in 1997 by Didier Jacobée. It makes board games, strategy games, games for kids, and other such games.Tilsit also distributed a number of French versions of Kosmos games, but the collaboration ended in 2006...
and Gecko Games.
The game is set in the Triassic period. Players maneuver dinosaur
Dinosaur
Dinosaurs are a diverse group of animals of the clade and superorder Dinosauria. They were the dominant terrestrial vertebrates for over 160 million years, from the late Triassic period until the end of the Cretaceous , when the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event led to the extinction of...
-shaped pieces and manage the "continental drift
Continental drift
Continental drift is the movement of the Earth's continents relative to each other. The hypothesis that continents 'drift' was first put forward by Abraham Ortelius in 1596 and was fully developed by Alfred Wegener in 1912...
" of hexagonal tiles in order to spread their species and dominate the continents that make up the playing board, scoring points as they do so. The end of the game is when a meteor
METEOR
METEOR is a metric for the evaluation of machine translation output. The metric is based on the harmonic mean of unigram precision and recall, with recall weighted higher than precision...
hits the earth, and the player with the most points wins.
The first edition of this game contains cubed wooden pieces to represent the dinosaurs. The second and later editions of the game contain vaguely dinosaur-shaped wooden playing pieces.
External links
- Trias webpage at Gecko Games
- http://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/10/10296.phtml rpg.net review