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Components

• 1 Game Board
• 28 Amoebas
• 37 Biological Points
• 25 Damage Point (DP) beads.
• 220 Foodstuff cubes
• 33 Gene Cards
• 11 Environment Cards
• 2 Dice
• 4 Reference Booklets
• Rulebook

Object of the Game

Each player controls a tribe of amoebas, at a time in the earth's history when there were no higher forms of life. At the start of the game the amoebas can feed, multiply and move in an uncoordinated fashion.

By buying Genes, players can extend the capabilities of their amoebas, changing the way that the game's rules operate on them and so influencing the development of their tribe. …

The following is an alphabetical index of some key terms from the game.

Ascending Order, Descending Order

When the players are in an Ascending Order phase, the player whose marker is last on the Scoring Ladder (i.e. last place) plays first, then the next-to-last player, all the way up to the first place player, who goes last.

A phase played in Descending Order is played the other way around: the player who is in first place goes first and play continues down the line until the person in last place takes his turn last. …