2025Adrian Adamescu, Cole Smith
- Videos
- 9
- Creators
- 7
1 - 4 players60 - 90 minMedium weight

2026Cole Smith
Mainly reviews. Sauros is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 6 reviews, 2 how-to-play guides, 2 recorded sessions, and 2 unboxings.
From BoardGameGeek
Sauros is a dinosaur themed trick-taking, puzzle game where players win tiles to then place on their player mats to align suits and symbols for dynamic scoring. The twist is the trump suit changes with each trick! Featuring five asymmetric player mats and unique scoring conditions, each mat representing one of the five dinosaurs present in Sauros. The game is played in a series of rounds. At the end of each round, the player mats are rotated. Once each player has played each mat, the points from all rounds are tallied and the player with the highest score wins. -description from the publisher
Sauros has 12 videos from 10 creators: 6 reviews, 2 how-to-play guides, 2 playthroughs and 2 unboxings. They date from 2025 to July 2026.
To learn the rules, start with "How to Play Sauros Board Game" by Rolling with the Beard, which runs 9 min. For a quicker teach, "Sauros Overview from Tangerine Games" by One Board Family runs 6 min.
For an opinion before you buy, start with "Sauros- Nice Prelaunch Image! - Kickstarter Critique Review" by Bower's Game Corner. 4 creators have reviewed it. To see it played, watch "Sauros Playthru" by Tantrum House, one of 2 playthroughs.
If you like it, try 3 Magi and Tanuki, also by Cole Smith, or SCOUT and dnup, which share several of its mechanics.
8 of 10
2025Adrian Adamescu, Cole Smith
1 - 4 players60 - 90 minMedium weight
2024Kei Kajino (梶野 桂)
2 - 5 players15 - 20 minLight weight
From BoardGameGeek:
Sauros is a dinosaur themed trick-taking, puzzle game where players win tiles to then place on their player mats to align suits and symbols for dynamic scoring. The twist is the trump suit changes with each trick! Featuring five asymmetric player mats and unique scoring conditions, each mat representing one of the five dinosaurs present in Sauros. The game is played in a series of rounds. At the end of each round, the player mats are rotated. Once each player has played each mat, the points from all rounds are tallied and the player with the highest score wins. -description from the publisher
Designer
Cole Smith
Artists
Animesh Debnath, Nilanjan Malakar
Publisher
Tangerine Games
Categories
Mechanics