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Stack O' Cats is a balancing game, with a little press-your luck element thrown in. Gather up to six friends for the most fun you’ll ever have trying to get a cat to do what you want them to! Take turns stacking wooden cats of all sorts one on top of another, but beware - these cat’s won’t stay still for long! Be the best at keeping the cats under control, and you’ll come out the victor!
Players take turns drawing a cat meeple from the big Bag o’ Cats, and balancing it anywhere on top of the cat stack, then gaining points for that cat’s placement. The game has multiple point variants to encourage different stacking styles! You can play for most points or least to be crowned victor, you decide which way to play. Thirty two unique shaped cat meeples and forty meeples total ensure that every game will be different! Our sturdy base also ensures that you have a firm foundation to work from to build fun and crazy cat stacks. Solo and coop modes are also available.
-description from designer
- Expansions add more cat types to play with.
- Feline
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Stacking — Players stack cats, with the objective being not to knock them down.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- My cat whisper turned to a scream.
References (from this video)
- Great dexterity game
- Secure base prevents early wobbling
- Cute and varied cat pieces
- Visually appealing game
- Flexible scoring options
- Game doesn't end if pieces fall
- Can add complexity with black cats
- Dropping cats results in negative points
- Dexterity game with cats
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Bag Building — Drawing random cats from a bag to start the game.
- dexterity — Placing cats onto a base and stacking them.
- Stacking — Building upwards with the cat pieces.
- variable scoring — Players can choose to aim for high scores by building tall or low scores by building wide, or play a variant where dropped pieces are negative points.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- So, today I want to tell you about the new dexterity game, Stacco Cats.
- The cats are so cute. They're different colors. You're going to put them in here. They're all different shapes and so they are just going to fit together in so many different ways.
- A lot of dexterity games you already start out wobbling, but this these are in here.
- The way my family actually prefers to play it because we find it a lot simpler and not as tedious to calculate is we just play you stack your cats and if anything falls that goes into your pile and those are your negative points at the end of the game and whoever has the lowest score loses.
- There's so so many different variants that you can play.
- This is one of those games that as you're going, it looks really cool on the board.
- Either way, it is a great time.