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2017 Ranked #18,721

Pests!

This competitive card game has exterminators draft and play actions to clear a home’s pest infestation before rivals do. Setting traps and disrupting opponents creates a race in which only the first completed job earns payment.

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Players

2-6

Play time

45-75 min

Age

10+

Complexity

2/5

Rating

6.85

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

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Is this game right for my group?

ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.4/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 3.9/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.7/5

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?

Players are various kinds of exterminators trying to rid a home of a pest infestation. The owner is only paying the first to complete the job though so stay focused! Use your actions to play the cards you drafted, set traps, hinder opponents, and more!

Core mechanisms

Key systems that shape the decisions players make.

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Game and edition data

All specifications (5)

Play and group

Players
2–6
Best with
3–6
Play time
45–75 min
Age
10+
Complexity
2.0/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
Michael McFarland

Artists

1
Todd Jakubisin

Publishers

1
Spontaneously Combustible Games

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