Ooga!

Ooga! Ooga Ooga! Sorry, that was caveman speak for “Look, it’s a dinosaur!” I realize, those timelines may or may not accurately line up, but it works out well enough in the kids’ game, OogaOoga

In Ooga, the players are members of a tribe, competing to be the first in hunting the correct dinosaurs for the menu. You are armed with spears (stick with a suction cup), and when the Tribal Chief throws the bones, you go where they lead you. Sometimes, that will be the forests, sometimes the deserts, and sometimes the spewing lava craters. Or, if you are really lucky, they will send you to the grove, where you get to spear… a coconut! Coconuts count as a wild card, standing in for any type of dinosaur.

When you successfully meet the menu criteria, you shout “Ooga!” and take the menu, replacing it. You also take the title of Tribal Chief, meaning you get to throw the bones. This is both good and bad, because while it does give you the time to survey the board before throwing, it also gives you less time to prepare the spear in your hand so that you can stab a dinosaur (Yeah, I know, poor dinos. They just wanted to be friends! Well, except for that T-Rex. He’s trying to eat the rest of them. And I will point out that you rarely see two T-Rexes on one card.)

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