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Game Play

Roll die. Collect and place the Beetle matching your die roll into a 4x4 grid.

Rolling a 6 allows you to pick any of the 5 available Beetles.

2-Player variant - 5x5 grid.

Tools

Tools are single use.

Magnifying glass - choose any face-up OR face-down Beetle instead of rolling the die.

Forceps - Swap 2 beetles tiles in your Jewel Box. Can be used before or after collecting a Beetle.

Either - Can be used as either Magnifying Glass or Forceps.

Limit to using 1 token per turn.

Each unused token at the end of the game is worth 2 points.

Scoring Guide

Scarabs (green) - Scores individually. A scarab on the edge adjacent to all different family scores 2 points. A scarab in the middle adjacent to all different family scores 3 points.

Weevils (red) - Gain points as a set being in a group horizontally or vertically as below:

Group of 2 - 3 points

Group of 3 - 6 points

Group of 4 - 10 points

Each weevil can only be counted once.

Ladybug (purple) - Score number of lady bugs not adjacent to another lady bug as below:

2 ladybugs - 1 point

3 ladybugs - 4 points

4 ladybugs - 8 points

5 ladybugs - 15 points

Longhorns (yellow) -

If total number of longhorns is a even number - scores number of longhorn x 2

If total number of longhorns is an odd number - scores number of longhorn x 1

Jewels (blue) - scores when in pairs

Each pair (non-adjacent) - 5 points.

More than 2 adjacent to each other - 0 points for all.