Jurassic Park
Jurassic Park card game made in Argentina, 2004.
Jurassic Park card game made in Argentina, 2004. Each card contains characteristic information about dinosaurs and their score value in the game. The object of the game is to gain the highest score by challenging other players to a match and seeing who wins. Two jokers (comodin) are included.
By Simon Wintle
Member since February 01, 1996
Founder and editor of the World of Playing Cards since 1996. He is a former committee member of the IPCS and was graphics editor of The Playing-Card journal for many years. He has lived at various times in Chile, England and Wales and is currently living in Extremadura, Spain. Simon's first limited edition pack of playing cards was a replica of a seventeenth century traditional English pack, which he produced from woodblocks and stencils.
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