Board Game Design Lab Finalist 2020

It's Caturday! In Cool Cats, you are helping lazy, entitled felines have the best day ever!

On each player's turn, they must take all cards of one value and assign those numbers by marking off each value on their sheet. The unique aspect of this adorably addictive flip and fill game is the bingo style play in which you will be able to deduce what numbers might appear as there are only 3 of each value in the deck (including the joker). Plan your day carefully based on what you are able to get because your opponents might have the same idea!

Each area on the player sheet can earn you style points toward your day or even help you create entertaining combos. Play with your human to keep them sharp (and get sweet bonuses as a reward), sleep in the sun to earn style points and extra numbers, beg for specific belly rubs that only a cat could be satisfied by and eat as much as you can to multiply your style points. Cool cats need bathroom breaks too-- so fill as many litter boxes as you can for big points!

Cool cats get bored quickly so once you take five cards or more, you are out of the round. Balance getting large sets of numbers with your aspirations to be the coolest cat on the block and diversify your choices. Style points can come easy if you plan right, but you'll have to work for them.

Multiplayer is only part of the game, however! Take on Feline Fiends who specialize in all sorts of feline chaos in two separate modes: Campaign and Free-For-All. In Campaign Mode, go solo or bring some friends to take on each Feline Fiend in order from Lucky Cat to Captain Ameowica to the all-powerful Sam and outsmart them in all of their pawfect skills. Players must work together to reach a point threshold while facing cats who don't like rules and take whatever they want. Should Campaign Mode be too stressful, take them on solo or with friends in any order you like in Free-For-All.

Cool Cats combines the flip and fill mechanic with drafting, press your luck and deduction into a print and play game that feels bigger than the sheet of paper and marker you are using.

-An earlier version of this game was a finalist for the Board Game Design Lab Challenge in 2020.

—description from the publisher

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