An apparatus for playing a boardgame for young people and adults. The game board of the present invention comprises an open, continuous route of dinosaur footprints colored-coded or otherwise marked for contingency circumstances which occur during game play and four closed routes called "homepaths" on which only a particular player or team may enter after making at least one circuit of the outer perimeter of dinosaur footprints. The Cave in the center provides a homebase or final goal. The object of the game is to capture the most dinosaurs and to land the most dinosaurs on the Cave. An EVENT CARD, color-coded to work in conjunction with the color-coded footprints, lists the events which occur when landing on the color-coded footprint. ACTION CARDS, also color-coded, give the players the instructions to follow each time an event occurs. Many levels of the game may be played by adding question and answer cards. Another alternative object of the game is to collect a set of color-coded matching cards. The game further includes informational cards having a descriptive article. At the beginning of play, the article is read aloud and the player attempts to memorize the facts in the article. Matching cards each having a color and a statement including one of several facts found in the article are also provided. When a player lands on a marked space, a matching card is picked and the statement on the card is read, leaving out the facts. If the player can recall the article and recite the missing facts in the statement, that player collects the matching card.
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