Invisible City Productions

Crazy Cat Fanciers: Game of the Month for December 2009 · 7 January 10

Remember: You’re not crazy. You’re just different.

Crazy Cat Fanciers is a game for two to five players. Your goal is to entice cats from the Wild into your home and have them stay with you. The best way to do this is by feeding them, and ensuring that they stay sated. Since cats are always hungry, this is not always as easy to do as it may sound.

The player with most cats at the end of the game wins, with one little twist… Every cat has two of the following five quirks: Mellow, Polydactyl, Psycho, Stealthy, and Friendly. At the start of the game, each player gets a “crazy” card with one of those five quirks on it. Every cat you have that matches your crazy card is worth one extra point at the end of the game. So, your goal is to collect as many cats as possible, with cats that match your crazy counting double.

One more thing: There’s also a deck of Thumb Servants cards. You can use these cards to buy things for your house and your cats, and to keep other players from taking your cats.

Crazy Cat Fanciers uses a custom deck of cards and a six-sided die. The rules and cards are available at: http://www.invisible-city.com/play/534/crazy-cat-fanciers

Crazy Cat Fanciers has fairly simple rules, but requires a moderate amount of resource allocation and planning for the future. Crazy Cat Fanciers is appropriate for ages 12 and up. Parents could probably play this game with children as young as seven. A four-player game takes about 60 minutes to play.

— Jonathan A Leistiko :: gaming : humor

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