First Giants
Dinosaurs, flying reptiles, and giant mammals create the most prestigious exhibition!
What is First Giants?
In First Giants, players take on the role of paleontologists collecting the most beautiful fossils to display at their museum.
Choose which specimens to study and use their unique abilities before adding them to your collection.
Also, you must carefully decide when to exhibit your fossils since you will no longer benefit from their effects once on display. But wait too long, and you may miss out on the opportunity to score points!
Contents:
- 65 Cards
- 4 Dig Site boards
- 20 Wood markers
- 5 Museum boards
- 8 News tokens. .
- 33 Set tokens
- 80 Amber tokens
- 84 Point tokens
- 1 First player token
Dinosaurs, flying reptiles, and giant mammals, create the most prestigious exhibition!
Game Design: Matthew Dunstan & Brett J. Gilbert
Artwork: Jessica Cognard & Maud Chalmel
First Giants in video (coming soon)
What is First Giants?
First Giants is an Engine Unbuilding game with simple rules for 2 to 5 players, where players compete as paleontologists to create the most prestigious prehistoric exhibition.
“Some discoveries remain under study.
Others enter History.“
Players build their engine by collecting fossils with powerful effects…
and must decide when to display them to score points — knowing that once exhibited, those effects are permanently lost.
A constant dilemma: push their engine further… or sacrifice it at the perfect moment.
First Giants’ rules in a nutshell
Pay 1 Marker
Take 1 of the markers from your board and place it at a Dig Site that does not already contain one of your markers.
Take 1 of the 2 cards from that Dig Site and place it in your Study (i.e. above your board).
Apply that card’s effect and any relevant recurring effects:
Reclaim Markers
Take all your markers from Dig Sites and return them to your board.
For each marker reclaimed, choose 1 of the following effects:
Gain 1 amber OR Display 1 fossil.
You can choose a different effect for each marker reclaimed, in any order you wish.
Display Fossils
To put a fossil on display, spend the amount of amber equal to its size (1, 2, or 3). After
spending amber, take the card from your Study and place it facedown below your board.
Putting fossils on display is the best way to earn points.
When you put a fossil on display, you can either start a new set or expand an existing set: family (1, 2, 3) or size set (2, 2, 2, 2). To earn points, you must expand your set.
Each time you expand a set, take 1 Set token (= 1 victory point). If another player obtains the same type of set with more cards, they steal the matching News token!
End of the Game
The end of the game is triggered when a player takes the last Set token from the supply or when the deck is empty after a player refills a Dig Site. Take all remaining Set tokens from the box and add them to the supply. Play continues until all players have had an equal number of turns, at which point the game ends; then add up your scores.
