Meet the dinosaurs
The dinosaurs in our games are a family. Rex is the T-rex you will see most, Mo is his grumpy uncle with the moustache, and Bella and Frost join them in Trex Runner and on the Dino Chorus stage. They are the studio's own characters, and they turn up across games of very different kinds — which is why "dinosaur game" here can mean a sprint, a stacking challenge, a memory test or a quiet puzzle.
All six games below run in the browser on a phone, a tablet or a computer. You can press Play straight away as a guest; signing in only matters if you want your result on the leaderboard.
Trex Runner: the classic endless run
If you have met the little dinosaur that appears in Chrome when the internet goes down, Trex Runner will feel familiar — with colour, a cast and somewhere to go. Rex runs on his own across a prehistoric land; you jump the rocks, cycads and piles of bones, and duck under pterodactyls flying at head height. A golden egg adds 50 points, and one bump ends the run.
How to get good:
- Tap for a hop, hold for a high jump. A short tap clears a single rock; save the big jumps for clusters of cycads.
- Watch how high a pterodactyl flies. Low ones you jump, head-height ones you duck, and high ones simply pass over you if you stay on the ground.
- Press down in mid-air to drop fast. Jumping early is safer than jumping late, because you can always come down quickly.
You can run as Rex or Mo from the start, and unlock Bella at a best of 500 and Frost at 1500. They only look different: every runner jumps the same way, so every score on the board was earned on equal terms.
Dino Rush: a three-lane chase in 3D
Dino Rush is the same idea in a bigger world: a 3D jungle track with three lanes, a T-rex running at full tilt, and dinosaurs coming the other way. Logs and triceratopses are jumped, low pterosaurs jumped and high ones ducked, boulders gone round. An ankylosaurus swings its club tail into the next lane as you pass, and a T-rex is too tall to jump and sometimes steps across just before it reaches you.
You have three hearts, so a mistake is not the end. Your score is the distance in metres, plus 25 for every egg.
How to get good:
- Look ahead, not at your feet. The next row is in sight long before it arrives.
- Things walking at you arrive sooner than a log at the same distance, so move early.
- An ankylosaurus's tail only reaches the next lane. In the lane beyond, run straight past.
- After a hit you blink for a moment and nothing can hurt you: use it to reach a better lane.
Every row of the track leaves a way through, however fast it gets. We test that with a computer player that has to survive minutes of play on dozens of different tracks without a single hit.
Rex Tower: one tap, one slab
Rex Tower is about timing rather than reflexes. A stone slab slides back and forth; tap to drop it on the tower. Whatever hangs over the edge breaks off, so a sloppy drop leaves a narrower slab for next time, and Rex hops up onto each one you place.
The trick is the perfect: land a slab almost exactly on the one below and nothing breaks off, and from the third perfect in a row the slabs start to grow back. Watch the edge of the slab, not its middle, and tap as it lines up with the edge below.
Dino Chorus: a memory game that sings
In Dino Chorus the four dinosaurs stand on stage and each sings its own note. They sing a short song; you tap them back in the same order. Get it right and the song comes again, one note longer and a little faster. Your score is the longest song you sang back without a slip.
The song never changes, it only grows — so you only ever have to learn the one new note at the end. Giving each dinosaur a word ("Rex, Mo, Mo, Frost") and saying the song to yourself makes long songs much easier. It works with the sound off too: each singer lights up and hops.
Two dinosaur puzzles
Dino Trail is a number path puzzle. Draw one trail from nest 1 that passes through every square exactly once and reaches the numbered nests in order. Corners are the place to start: a corner square has only two ways in and out, so the trail must use both.
Dino Springs is a pipe puzzle. Turn the tiles until water from the spring reaches every thirsty dinosaur, with no pipe left open. Start at the edges, where a pipe cannot point outwards, and fix each tile as soon as it can only lie one way.
Both are timed, and both can be solved by reasoning: there is always at least one way through.
Which one to start with
- Two minutes to spare: Trex Runner.
- Want something that looks great on a big screen: Dino Rush.
- Like a rhythm: Rex Tower.
- Want to test your memory: Dino Chorus.
- Prefer to think rather than react: Dino Trail or Dino Springs.
Every game has a monthly leaderboard that starts again on the 1st of each month at 00:00 UTC, so a new month is always a fresh chance at the top.
