201 5 Seasons Best International Family Game Nominee
In Prehistories, you lead a prehistoric tribe, making crucial decisions on who goes hunting and what prey to pursue. Guided by the Elders' challenges, you showcase your achievements by painting on your cave walls.
Each round, you and other tribe leaders secretly bid to determine hunting grounds. The more hunters you deploy, the bigger the game you can catch, but it also slows you down. The swiftest player, with the fewest hunters, goes first but has limited resources. Assign your hunters wisely to catch prey represented by polyomino tiles. Larger tiles require higher sums, and narrowly winning your prey may result in wounded hunters, reducing your hand for the next round.
In the second phase, paint your cave using the collected animal tiles. Your 7x7 grid cave starts with a few tiles in place. The first tile must go in the left-hand column, and subsequent tiles must touch existing ones, all oriented correctly for representational art.
Fulfill the Elders' wishes by completing specific patterns, like horizontal lines, connecting corners, or surrounding legendary animals, to place totem tokens on challenges. The first to discard all eight totem tokens wins the game!
Dive into this strategic adventure, balancing risk and reward as you guide your tribe to prehistoric glory!