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Cantankerous Cats box art
2014 Ranked #17,602

Cantankerous Cats

A competitive cat card game where players draw, play, attack, and interrupt rivals to cause house mischief. Hand management and cunning create escalating conflicts as the first cat to nine mischief points wins.

Animals Card Game Take That Hand Management

Players

2-6

Play time

20-60 min

Age

10+

Complexity

2/5

Rating

5.95

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.4/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 4.0/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.6/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.0/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

You are a cat. You live in a house.

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You are a cat. You live in a house. You share this house with your pet Hoomin. You goal is to lavish this Hoomin with Affection while causing Mischief elsewhere in the house. The first cat to score 9 Mischief points wins the game! --- Cantankerous Cats is a light weight, competitive card game centered around the feline propensity for mischief, cunning, and Schadenfreude. Players follow a basic Draw 3, Play 2 format with the ability to attack and interrupt other players. While a game with new players tends to be very polite and rigid; seasoned players will find a faster, brutal game that rewards clever use of hand management, probability, and cunning. The game now features THREE ways to play: "Kitten" for families and party gamers | "Basic" for casual players | "Advanced" (formerly Standard) for tournament level play. All rules can be downloaded here on BGG or from the publisher's website.

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Play and group

Players
2–6
Best with
3–6
Play time
20–60 min
Age
10+
Complexity
2.0/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

2
Al Gonzalez III Elise Spacek

Artists

4
Al Gonzalez III Heather Gross Jose Pimienta Elise Spacek

Publishers

1
Mentha Designs

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