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* PunnyName: The dinosaurs have them, [[ALizardNamedLiz based on]] [[ADogNamedDog their species]]: Sarah the triceratops, Rex the Tyrannosaurus, [[Creator/EmilyBronte Emily the brontosaurus]], [[OddOneOut Steggy]] the stegosaurus, and (from a promo card) Terry and Teri the pterodactyls.

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* PunnyName: The dinosaurs have them, [[ALizardNamedLiz based on]] [[ADogNamedDog their species]]: Sarah the triceratops, Rex the Tyrannosaurus, [[Creator/EmilyBronte Emily the brontosaurus]], [[OddOneOut [[OddNameOut Steggy]] the stegosaurus, and (from a promo card) Terry and Teri the pterodactyls.

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* PunnyName: Most of the dinosaur's names are puns.
** The triceratops is named "Sarah".
** The tyrannosaurus is named "Rex".
** The brontosaurus is named "[[StealthPun Emily]]"[[note]]after Creator/EmilyBronte[[/note]].
** The stegosaurus is named "[[OddNameOut Steggy]]".

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* PunnyName: Most of The dinosaurs have them, [[ALizardNamedLiz based on]] [[ADogNamedDog their species]]: Sarah the dinosaur's names are puns.
** The triceratops is named "Sarah".
** The tyrannosaurus is named "Rex".
** The brontosaurus is named "[[StealthPun Emily]]"[[note]]after Creator/EmilyBronte[[/note]].
** The stegosaurus is named "[[OddNameOut Steggy]]".
triceratops, Rex the Tyrannosaurus, [[Creator/EmilyBronte Emily the brontosaurus]], [[OddOneOut Steggy]] the stegosaurus, and (from a promo card) Terry and Teri the pterodactyls.

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* ForWantOfANail: A single flipped linchpin can cause a half-dozen paradoxes.


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* PointOfDivergence: Each linchpin serves this function in the timeline, as one of the few places where the timeline can be changed. Furthermore, a single flipped linchpin can cause a half-dozen paradoxes.
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* OmnicidalManiac: Crazy Joe wants to cause a TimeCrash and wipe out the universe. If that happens, he gets to run a Tiki-Hut in the ruins.
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* JustForPun: Most of the dinosaur's names are puns.
** The triceratops is named "Sarah".
** The tyrannosaurus is named "Rex".
** The brontosaurus is named "[[StealthPun Emily]]"[[note]]after Creator/EmilyBronte[[/note]].
** The stegosaurus is named "[[OddNameOut Steggy]]".


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* PunnyName: Most of the dinosaur's names are puns.
** The triceratops is named "Sarah".
** The tyrannosaurus is named "Rex".
** The brontosaurus is named "[[StealthPun Emily]]"[[note]]after Creator/EmilyBronte[[/note]].
** The stegosaurus is named "[[OddNameOut Steggy]]".
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[[http://www.wunderland.com/LooneyLabs/Chrononauts/ Chrononauts]], created by Looney Labs (creators of TabletopGame/{{Fluxx}}), is a card game about TimeTravel.

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[[http://www.wunderland.com/LooneyLabs/Chrononauts/ Chrononauts]], created by Looney Labs (creators of TabletopGame/{{Fluxx}}), is a card game {{card game|s}} about TimeTravel.
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* WriteWhoYouKnow: As the creator admits [[http://www.wunderland.com/LooneyLabs/Chrononauts/Mysteries.html#Characters here]], a few of the player ID cards are based on people he knew.
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** WordOfGod is that the three Mona Lisas (Genuine, passable fake and obvious fake) are ''not'' a ShoutOut to [[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E2CityOfDeath "City of Death"]], as the game's creator is not really a fan of ''Series/DoctorWho'', though he acknowledges the plot of the serial in notes on the game.
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You play as one of several folks from alternate timelines that have suddenly found that history as they know it is gone. Completely. Instead, they get thrown into a timeline completely different than the one they knew - namely, the one we actually saw in RealLife. So, you're a time traveler with the ability to alter time, bounce about as needed, and even fix TemporalParadox. So, what do you want to do?

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You play as one of several folks from alternate timelines that have suddenly found that history as they know it is gone. Completely. Instead, they get thrown into a timeline completely different than the one they knew - namely, the one we actually saw in RealLife. So, you're a time traveler with the ability to alter time, bounce about as needed, and even fix a TemporalParadox. So, what do you want to do?
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: JFK surviving somehow prevents the Vietnam War, even though by all accounts JFK ''supported'' the war in real life. The "Mysteries of the Timeline" section about it cites numerous debunked conspiracy-theorist works, most notably the notoriously poor History Channel special "The Men Who Killed Kennedy".

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* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: There are four dinosaurs in the game and one mission is to collect all of them.



* HistoricalInJoke: Several.

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* GottaCatchThemAll: There are four dinosaurs in the game and one mission is to collect all of them.
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HistoricalInJoke: Several.
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*DontMakeMeTakeMyBeltOff: The character Timmy's backstory sees him playing around with musical history and annoys his father. He gets up from his chair and asks his wife "Where's my whipping belt?"

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* ForWantOfANail

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* ForWantOfANailForWantOfANail: A single flipped linchpin can cause a half-dozen paradoxes.


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* WorldWarIII: The one patch you ''don't'' want to play (unless you're a specific character), in this scenario, it's caused when the Cuban Missile Crisis turns the Cold War hot. When this happens, human history comes to a swift and dramatic halt - everything after it on the timeline is locked out until it's undone.
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* [[CoolStarship Cool Time Machine]]: Two you can get, with different bonuses. One is tiny, the size of a pocket watch. The other is very fast, which in context presumably means you spend less subjective time in hyperspace and more rushing about history altering things.



* [[EvilCounterpart Liberal Counterpart]]: '[[Music/JohnLennon Senator Lennon]]' apparently becomes this for/to Ronald Reagan, if he survives.


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* TimeMachine: Two you can get, with different bonuses. One is tiny, the size of a pocket watch. The other is very fast, which in context presumably means you spend less subjective time in hyperspace and more rushing about history altering things.
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* RocksFallEveryoneDies: If 13 paradoxes are active, then everyone dies and loses (unless you have Crazy Joe from the expansion pack, who wins in this scenario). In [=ÜberChrononauts=], this kicks in if any block of four adjacent rows has 13 paradoxes.

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* RocksFallEveryoneDies: If 13 paradoxes are active, then the Universe is destroyed, meaning everyone dies and loses (unless you have Crazy Joe from the expansion pack, who wins in this scenario). In [=ÜberChrononauts=], this kicks in if any block of four adjacent rows has 13 paradoxes.
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* ApocalypseHow: [[ApocalypseHow/Class4Planetary Mass Extinction]] (including humanity) in the alternate 1962; [[ApocalypseHow/ClassZ Omniversal Physical Annihilation]] if too many paradoxes go unpatched.

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* ApocalypseHow: [[ApocalypseHow/Class4Planetary [[ApocalypseHow/Class4 Planetary Mass Extinction]] (including humanity) in the alternate 1962; [[ApocalypseHow/ClassZ Omniversal Physical Annihilation]] if too many paradoxes go unpatched.

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