Prehistory.
Hot. Primordial. Dull.
You’ve been dominating the Earth for longer than you can remember.
Then again, with a brain the size of a walnut, you’ve also been standing there for longer than you can remember.
Nevertheless, you’re completely sure that it’s been ten million and twenty-five years since anything interesting has happened.
So you decide to cajole your buddies into a suicide race across Skull Island. The winner is the first dinosaur to jump headfirst into the volcano.
And you’re gonna need that head.
Bitin’ Off Hedz is a quick and silly board game about dinosaurs racing to go extinct. It was published by Cheapass Games in 1997, with a slightly updated second edition in 1999. Sadly, we lost all the digital files for the original version, and it took us a few years to rebuild it from scratch.
Now we have a freshly polished, gorgeous full-color edition of Bitin’ Off Hedz that you can order right now from our shop, or from DriveThruCards.
SMALL BOARD: This one-piece board is a modest 12 x 18 poster, folded in half.
LARGE BOARD: This four-piece board is four 12 x 18 posters, which assemble to a formidable 24 x 36.
Along with the game board, you’ll also need pawns for each player (little plastic dinosaurs, if possible), two 6-sided dice, and a pile of rocks. You also need a copy of the rules, found below.
Rules and Printing Files: You can print and play Bitin’ Off Hedz right now, absolutely free. Here are the files you’ll need; make the board as big as you like.
Bitin’ Off Hedz Rules (Updted January 22, 2024)
Note: Acrobat does appear to have an automatic tiling function, in case you want to blow up the board and piece it together. Or you can take the file to your friendly local copy shop. Do those still exist?
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What’s New in This Edition?
This is the fully remastered 25th Anniversary edition of Bitin’ Off Hedz. The heart of the game remains the same, but we have made several changes that make it more fun, more fair, and more fast.
The most important change is that when you throw a rock and hit another player, it doesn’t send them back to the start; instead, you switch places on the track. This is a significant improvement, and it not only gives you a better reason to take a shot, but it also keeps the game from lasting forever.
Players are now safe on the first ten spaces of the board, so the first few turns aren’t just endless resetting.
There’s also Hot Lava, which is like a Mudd Pitt that also kills you.
You can now scoop up rocks on the board as you pass them, and chucking a rock at someone is easier when you have the high ground. (As if you would ever do that.)
We think the new version comes closer to what we always wanted. 25 years later, and a million years wiser.
Please check out the game in our shop, and sample the many other Cheapass favorites over at our Game Preserve, Cheapassic Park.
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