Bitin' Off Hedz is a board game

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...

 produced by Cheapass Games

Cheapass Games

Cheapass Games is a game company founded and run by game designer James Ernest, based in Seattle, Washington. Cheapass Games operates on the philosophy that most game owners have plenty of dice, counters, play money, etc., so there is no need to bundle all of these components with every game that...

 for 2 to 6 players. The players take the role of 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...

s, each ready to be the first to throw themselves into a volcano

Volcano

2. Bedrock3. Conduit 4. Base5. Sill6. Dike7. Layers of ash emitted by the volcano8. Flank| 9. Layers of lava emitted by the volcano10. Throat11. Parasitic cone12. Lava flow13. Vent14. Crater15...

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The game board is a mostly linear path across a Jurassic

Jurassic

The Jurassic is a geologic period and system that extends from about Mya to  Mya, that is, from the end of the Triassic to the beginning of the Cretaceous. The Jurassic constitutes the middle period of the Mesozoic era, also known as the age of reptiles. The start of the period is marked by...

environment. In turn, each player roles a single die and moves at least one space and at most that many spaces around the board. Certain spaces on the board have special actions that the user can take:

• If the space has a "Rock" symbol in it, or any number of "rock" tokens, the player can pick up a rock token to be used later.
• If the space is connected in a special manner to another space (generally in close proximity), and another player is in that other space, the current player can attempt to throw one of their accumulated rocks at the other player. A die roll is determined for a successful hit, and if hit, the other player is killed, dropping any rocks they accumulated to that point on that space, and return to the start. If the rock misses, a rock token is put on the space the other player presently occupies.
• If another player is in the space the player ends his turn him, the current player can opt to 'bite off the head' of the other player. This player returns to the starting point, dropping any rocks they accumulated to that point.
• Bog spaces reduce the rate of movement for the next turn if they are landed in.
• Two special points on the board have divergent paths, and the player can opt which one they want to take. One such junction includes a path that takes a shortcut over water but requires the player to 'fly', and to be able to move the water spaces in a single roll; if they are unable to do this, the player dies and returns to the start.

At the end of any roll, a player may opt to drop a rock they have accumulated to gain an extra roll of the die for movement

The winner of the game is the first one to make an exact roll to land in the volcano in the middle of the board.

A variation of the game includes the use of different species of dinosaurs and other animals with different movement rates, rock carrying capacities, and other abilities.

External links

• Cheapass Games' Bitin' Off Hedz product page