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Cat Box

Cats, Boxes and a dog

Cats love cardboard boxes and you want to get them for them and help them in their struggle for those boxes

Each player is either assigned a secret cat color for his identity or the one dog in the game, a Chihuahua, and you win, if you have most cats of your own visible in the display at the end of the game.

The game features 48 double-sided Cat Box card, each partitioned into four quadrants, and each quadrant on each side either shows a cat or an empty box. One card is placed to start the display and you are dealt one or two cards for your hand. The side of the card facing you is called the “secret” side of the cards, the card side facing the other players is called the “public” side. You play one card from your hand into the display with the secret side face-up or select a card from another player’s hand, placing it public side face-up. All cards are placed in the same alignment of cat faces and the new card must cover one or two quadrants of a card already in place. The player whose card was played replenishes his hand if still possible. When all players have placed all their cards, you count your own visible cats - each scores 1 VP - and add one VP per cat in the largest connected area with your cats. The Chihuahua players scores two SP for each visible set of three adjacent cats of the same color and one VP for each visible empty box.

The game comes with rules for an advanced game using tokens that you can play for special actions.

This is a nice, little filler game with a cute topic, the different rules and scoring targets for the dog player are an attractive factor in the game.

Players: 2-5

Age: 6+

Time: 30+

Designer: Aza Chen

Artist: Michiko Aihara

Price: ca. 15 Euro

Publisher: Two Plus Games 2015

Web: www. 2plus.com.tw

Genre: Card placement

Users: For families

Version: multi

Rules: en jp + cn fr

In-game text: no

Comments:

Cute, unusual topic

Two different scoring modes

Simple basic mechanism

Compares to:

Card placement games for majorities

Other editions:

Two Plus (cn)

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0