Toys are collected and scored for the sake of variety, because what cat wants to kick around seven balls of yarn when there are scratching posts, towers, and feather wands? Costumes are collected to dress up the felines against their will, presumably for exploitation on social media. The rest of the cards are then held in hand. Cat cards are laid down into a tableau as part of the player’s clowder (a term for a group of cats that are familiar with one another… not really a term from the game, but Google hath enlightened me) and must be fed at the game’s end to avoid a penalty. Food cards are immediately discarded in exchange for representative cubes, which are not officially assigned to a cat until the end of the game. However, Spray Bottle cards may be spent to torment the guard cat into allowing you to disregard its hissy intimidation. In Cat Lady, players draft on each turn by selecting either a row or column of cards from a 3×3 face-up grid.Īfter each selection of cards, the guard cat is moved to watch over the row or column that was just removed, preventing the next player from taking the same set.
The method of choosing and refusing cards can vary, but there seems to be a sweet spot where mechanism matches the speed and objectives of the game. Drafting games come in all shapes and sizes. Though I’m a little late to the purr party, it’s time to look back at the Ladies.Ĭat Lady is a card-drafting set collection game. It has spawned two small expansions and is now set to stand against it’s domesticated companion release this year, Dog Lover. Every industry has hazards that must be patiently endured.Ĭat Lady was designed and illustrated by Josh Wood ( Santa Monica) and released by AEG in 2017 to plenty of praise. It falls into the same category as an allergy to box sleeves, poorly written rule books, and set collection games without included scorepads. Not even the vile substance known as dander, however, can halt the pursuit of worthy games. This confession might also mean that I’ve alienated half-or all-of my audience without even mentioning the game at hand. But it does mean that I now travel with Benadryl caplets, just in case a home is guarded by feisty felines. I’ve always been something of a dog lover, so the allergy didn’t ruin my life. I still remember the New Year’s Eve when I discovered the severity of my allergy to cats.
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