This sweet, colorful cooperative game gives players one very important goal: Rescue as many cats as possible! With a color-matching puzzle mechanic that evokes sliding puzzles or tile matching games (think TETRIS or CANDY CRUSH) and a positive, cooperative angle, CAT RESCUE is a fast and addictive game for 1–5 players all about getting cats off the street, out of foster care, and ready for adoption into forever homes. Each game is about 15-20 minutes long, but players won’t be able to resist playing game after game to improve their shared rescue result, and the game even includes a small expansion that adds a new level of difficulty for experienced CAT RESCUE players. Can you become the true cat’s meow?
Box Contents:
45 cat cards
6 die-cut game pieces
Fabric shelter board
Instruction booklet
Shrink-wrapped box
HOW TO PLAY:
A colorful game for fans of Tetris, Candy Crush, sliding puzzles, and cats!
Objective: Get as many cats as possible adopted from the shelter!
The shelter represents a four-by-four grid in the middle of the table and starts with four cats inside. Each player starts with two cats in each of their foster homes in front of them.
During each player’s turn, they must place a cat, either from the street (draw deck) or from their foster home into the shelter, adjacent to another cat. Then the player must push that row of cats towards the adjacent cat. A delivery card is placed on the cat that was last placed in the shelter, pointing in the direction the cats were pushed and representing where the cat came from (street or foster). On the following players turn, they may not place a card that would a) push the cat under the delivery card in any direction or b) push any row of cats in the same direction the delivery card is pointing. If a cat is placed into the shelter from a foster home, the next player must play a cat from the street. Cats played from the street can be followed by cats from foster or the street.
Players continue this way in turn order, placing cats into the shelter and trying to line up rows of matching colors. When three cats of the same color (or including a Wild card) are in a row, the middle cat gets turned over, indicating that it is ready for adoption.
Multiple cats can be ready for adoption at any point. In order to get adopted and count for points, they must be pushed out of the shelter entirely, and they are then adopted to their new loving home.
The game ends when the street deck is depleted, and players together receive a Cat Rescue title based on the number of cats that were successfully adopted. The best of the best become The Cat’s Meow, and a friend to felines everywhere!