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Cattywampus

Game ID: GID0452758
Game Info
Year
2023
Players
2-8
Age
8+
Playtime
30 min
Complexity
1.5/5
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Description

Party drawing game where partners each draw half a picture while others guess the secret words

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Party drawing game where partners each draw half a picture while others guess the secret words

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Video qVn7wvapxd8 Our Family Plays Games Discussion at 27:33 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
Positive
Pros
  • Fun party type game for family and friends.
Cons
none
Thematic elements
  • drawing a picture from two words
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • Drawing — Two people pair up to sketch half of an image from two words.
  • Party Game — It's described as a 'fun party type game'.
  • word association — Players use two words to create a drawing.
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No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
  • The beauty of it is what it is.
  • It's been a busy week, y'all.
  • No, Monica, they are not called. I wish that was the case, but it's not.
  • The roommates are to blame, even the semi-ooperative ones.
  • Moving with board games is not fun. It is not.
  • It was a game store.
  • The entire third bedroom of our home is packed with games.
  • The RPGs came on the scene.
  • Well just to have the whole board game wagon team you know except for late Nate come over and help us. It was great. It was great.
  • All these boxes like, "What all those boxes? What kind of strange doing? What kind of strange people? What all them boxes? What is that?"
  • I I love Albert because when we met him at Kubricon we did as where you live Albert he said where E40 is. I said oh he down he down with the plan.
  • You thought I was going to miss that. I can only hear. You thought I was going to miss it. You thought it was going to go away just because of move. No.
  • Some wild news. It's a a crowdfunding shakeup.
  • Now, the official announcement lands landed is going to land July 24th. Is that We passed it, haven't we?
  • Now, it's set to unveil an official Doom game.
  • So, QuakeCon is for Doom fans really and for people who like Quake and other they call them boomer shooters, not because of the age, but because of the explosives and how the game is.
  • The comments are just wild and you guys are so funny.
  • In Indiegogo is an OG platform that will benefit from game files up.
  • Indiegogo has been long forgotten. I hadn't even heard about it in a while.
  • But see what a lot of people liked about Indiegogo, you didn't have to get all your money cuz Kickstarter was like, if you get your money, you get your, you know, if you get to your your uh your your goal, you get your money. If you don't, but Indiegogo Indog was like, hey, if you get whatever you get, you can take, which was cool.
  • But it's a danger because if you don't get enough money to make these games, you might get messed over.
  • Yay to being normal. I'm not really sure what Marty means about yay to being normal. Uh cuz Martney, you're not normal. You're not normal. You're not normal.
  • And now she's joined some kind of biking club knowing good and well she and I don't need to ride bikes but that's another conversation
  • Now game said QT is moving only if you look for him nah he go show up cuz you know QT be like hold up he there like what we doing what we doing
  • Moving with Legos is worse.
  • Everybody's getting their preparations done for upcoming Stara Month.
  • Star month is coming.
  • It's going to be a August going to be tough.
  • I have measured everything on the man. I've measured every window, every nook and cranny. I think I even measured myself. See if I can fit in the house. I don't know.
  • Our sign guy made it to the show.
  • Grant, I thought Stara was the Doom fan.
  • Mick, please not so loud next week. Seriously, I'm losing some hearing. That's why I have to see my doctor about it. Hopefully, not too serious.
  • You need to invest in some earplugs.
  • We got some exciting news, y'all. Some exciting news.
  • He runs tabletop tonight on his Twitch channel in YouTube and also one of the hosts for Good Morning Society over in Good uh Good Time Society YouTube.
  • Well, he's gonna be on the ground at Gen Con 2025 as our correspondent OVG correspondent.
  • So, don't miss that show. That's going to be I think August 10th.
  • So, don't miss that show. That's going to be I think August 10th. So come for the Gen Con show. We're going to be showing you images and people and what happened at Gen Con 2025.
  • And I think Reggie was going, wasn't he?
  • Now, everybody has been talking about this one game.
  • What? And and see, I didn't know too much about it, but I just want to throw this out there to you that you're going to check it out.
  • It's been on a lot of people list cuz last week we had our list of anticipated games and then I saw this one was all on a lot of people's list and I'm like wait a minute we got that game.
  • The movie monsters on the screen came out and now want to eat up everybody.
  • I'll see. We'll see.
  • Oh, sorry. Cuz we gonna play this in the new house, y'all. We play this in the new house.
  • Let's wait till the question. It's how do you make sure you don't misspacking any Legos? Just walk barefoot across your floor and you'll find all
  • That's his joke.
  • That'll hurt. That's not a joke. That's not a dad joke. No. No.
  • The first sponsor we have this week is um No Drama Games.
  • The Tragedy of Oll is a Shakespeare inspired card game brimming with strategy, treachery, and deceit.
  • Goats and Goblins is a push your luck romp into a cave on the brink of collapse.
  • Action cards can boost your raid or sabotage your rivals.
  • And the goblin with the biggest hall wins.
  • Be sure to check out the Kickstarter page or visit BA Games' website to learn more. Good luck, goblin herders.
  • You can kill folk, y'all. You can kill folk.
  • It's more theatrical than that.
  • Hold up, Shaky. We going to mess it up, Shaky.
  • We going to mess it up, Shaky.
  • Call him Shaky. What's up, Shaky? We going to mess it up a little bit.
  • It's like the play and it's, you know, it's, you know, if you really want to get into some Shakespearean stuff and have the opportunity to change things, you know, mess up William Shakespeare's stuff.
  • You know what? That is so true. He said no drama games. This is all drama.
  • Yes, it's all drama. All drama.
  • This is a cute little game. I am so proud to say that we had a chance to test this game when Yeah. when it was just being created and we liked it then. We like it a lot more now that it's finished.
  • Cute little goat cards and goblin cards. And your whole thing is you're going down, you're diving, trying to get more gold and money and stuff.
  • A lot of push of luck.
  • It's a push of luck and like how deep, you know, think I think I can go
  • They can play a card on you. throw uh do two more or three more trying to cave you in.
  • This is a treacherous mean game and I love it.
  • Well, it's only it's only mean when people see that they've already got two.
  • It messed me up, y'all. Amen.
  • But tragedy, the tragedy of Oll is coming out is coming out on Kickstart. I got backwards, but definitely check out Goats and Goblins at JinCon if you're there.
  • BA Games is the same publishers that made for uh Forges of Ravenshshire.
  • And Tony Law Horn's Caddyy Wampers on the cover.
  • Oh, that's right. It's Tony Law Horn's Caddyy Wampers. Yes. Which is like Tyler Perry's. He put his name out front. Tony did it. I'm more than just a sign guy.
  • Now, now Tony's game will be at Gen Con 2 at third world. Was that Third World Studios booth? 6:39.
  • But it's a fun uh party type game for you and your family and friends.
  • Yeah. So, congratulations to everybody. Blaine said, "Congrats, Tony."
  • Congratulations to everybody on these new games. No drama games. Sam Stockton from BA Games and Tony Law Horn. We wish you guys so much success.
  • So, now let's get into the heart of this episode.
  • Yes. Yes. We just want to answer the questions. We've been uh doing it already.
  • Now, what about the hobby? Tell them about the hobby.
  • Tales from the Tabletop, the documentary film that we are in. Yes. Is out on streaming.
  • You can get it on Prime Video, Amazon Prime, and on uh Apple TV.
  • We've already gotten people commenting that they looked at it like Roland Reggie said he loved it.
  • So, check out the hobby Tales from the Tabletop. It's a fun video about board gaming.
  • And Spooktacular is great for Halloween. I can't wait for it to play for Halloween. But the big one that we love playing for Halloween and we're going to play is Terascape.
  • My family loves drawing games, even though most of us can't draw. I I feel you, Albert.
  • But but that's what makes it fun. Yes, it does.
  • It was so much fun. We played at BGG Spring where they they featured all the Spar nominees and it was a fun game.
  • But the thing with that one, this lady here cannot draw.
  • And she said, "Oh, that's a a bouquet."
  • A bouquet of what? Okay. So, the thing with that particular game, you have a board with a bunch of dots on it, and you got to draw whatever your card tells you within the parameters of the dots.
  • It was really weird what she made. It was really weird. Oh, it's ask Oh. Oh. Oh. So, it was really, really weird. Very weird.
  • All right. So, let's see. What's What's our first question?
  • How's the move going? Are you moving to a bigger place?
  • Uh, the move is going. We're almost done. Yes, we're moving to a bigger place.
  • And like I said, you know, Blaine, we I've measured everything. I've measured my head too, my body. I've measured everything cuz it's a bigger place. And that means Staller's going to spend a lot more money trying to fill that place cuz she is looking at we even looking at Wayfair and some coming from Wayfair already.
  • Wayfair. You've got just what I need.
  • Moving is not cheap. It's not fun.
  • Not fun. and and but I think you know once we get settled we'll be happy. But the main thing is I can get the games away from my living space.
  • They can get out the games y'all. They can get out of the closets. They can get away from the living room, dining room. Just get them out of I told Mick no games upstairs. Not one.
  • They can stay downstairs in the game.
  • See there? There we go. See that?
  • Yeah. We we the upstairs is my domain. Downstairs is the games and his his roommates and that's where our studio will be. But the main thing is I'll have a space.
  • Cuz I was feeling really claustrophobic. The games were really everywhere.
  • They were coming at us.
  • They were just everywhere. So they were talking to us every day.
  • Arwin's getting married, y'all. Congratulations.
  • Okay. All right. So, we were just talking about Legos.
  • Yes, we have. We have.
  • As you were packing your games to move, did you als uh did you also do a culling of games at the same time?
  • Well, here's the deal. I I have a book. Well, every box has been numbered. Every bo every box is numbered from one to I think one to 56.
  • And in each box, I I did like a list. I wrote down what was in the box. And some of those uh games on the list in the in the tablet got a star. It's not a good star. It's not a good star.
  • Yeah. We We'll see if they finally get out. It's not a good star, but yeah. No. Yeah, we we'll see.
  • It's not a good star, y'all. That star might be goodbye.
  • Goodbye. So, that star Goodbye.
  • Some of them couldn't even fit in boxes like the Gloom Havens.
  • Yeah. Some of them couldn't even fit.
  • It just you just got to take them over cuz it's just they were just too like, you know, the uh Everdale uh the Everddale uh you know, coffin. Yes. You know, we had to take that over there.
  • Yeah. Just because it take up too much space in the box, you know, can't get over there. You know, we had to do that one.
  • Has Mick watched any Hallmark movies to celebrate Christmas in July?
  • No Ed I don't do that Ed. But the one thing in July they let you know all the TV stations Lifetime BET you know Hallmark they let you know what what shows are getting ready for Christmas.
  • So I do watch out and see what list I need to be making and see what I need to be ready for for Christmas season for my movies.
  • So they do do that. I don't watch any cuz I wait for the holidays that, you know, I get prepared, but I get prepared now. So, I'm getting ready.
  • We're lucky that at least I'm lucky that he's not doing the Christmas and July movies. Thank goodness cuz we got to deal with it during the holiday season.
  • Unfortunately, I'm not bothering her. Thank goodness.
  • And I'm not looking at nothing. I'm waiting cuz it it just feels kind of out of whack if you're looking at Christmas stuff during the summer. I don't do that. I wait. I wait.
  • The Hawaiian Contingent is here.
  • Oh, if you had a surprise talent show, what would your performances be?
  • I think me rapping. No, I think me rapping to a a funky beat. Funkin beat. We don't want to see that.
  • Rapping to the funky beat. I think that I would try that.
  • I I would try singing.
  • Well, you could you got that in the bag.
  • That's not fair. You got that in the bag.
  • I would sing. That's what I would cuz you've done that.
  • Yeah, but I don't sing like I used to
  • Albert said he got to see the hobby. Good. Thank you, Albert. I'm so happy you had a chance to see it.
  • Terescape is something that I would get. Yes. Yeah. Matthew, you would like Terrace Skate. You would like Terrace Skate. It is a great game.
  • Love Shakespeare, so I have to get Oll. Yeah.
  • I know you would like this game and it would be fun if we could all play it together. I think we would really get into Yeah.
  • Michael and Haley, what fictional world would you want to live in?
  • Ooh. Ooh. Ooh. That's Oh, wow. Fictional.
  • Ooh. Ooh. Well, I know which one I don't want to live in, and that's 40K. I don't live 40k. That's That's a dark time. Not cool. So, I don't want to live there.
  • But to Oh, you know where I would like to live? Where? Creature Comfort.
  • What? You going to be an animal? KTVG. Creature Comfort.
  • You gonna be a little animal for the winter.
  • I'll be there getting ready for the winner. Telling those kids, "Come on, get ready for the winter, little kids. Stop playing around trying to do some partying and come on. Bring your little butt in here and let's play some and and stop playing and let's get ready for the winner."
  • I would go to Barbie World.
  • What? The Barbie movie. That's a
  • But they might have a revolution. It might be all messed up.
  • What I loved about the Barbie movie, which I really, really liked it. What is that? They had no cares in the world. They just got up. They wore life's pretty clothes.
  • You You finally forced me to see that.
  • They drive nice cars. They play at the beach. They have barbecues. You get to have a Barbie house. I mean, yeah. That's why I'm going to Barbie World.
  • But see, you made me force me to see that. And it was kind of crazy. It was good. It was It was crazy.
  • I was like, "What in the world am I looking at?"
  • It was fun. I I would go to Barbies World, but they had a revolution. It was bad. But but the Barbies come out on top and head. Once they put the kids back in their place, the kids kids back in their place. Once they got the kids back in their place, the Barbies took over.
  • In a world run by women. It's a peaceful world.
  • Why you still on my Halloween outfit?
  • Make the rapping, man. I love it.
  • He's still my
  • Oh my god. Uh uh. Let's see. No. the better age of Sigma, right? No, it's still bad. It's still bad. Oh. Oh, we had another one. Oh, hi Lisa. Welcome to the show. Uh, will you be at Orca Con in January?
  • We don't know. We don't know. We don't know. We haven't got invited yet. We haven't got invited. They'll use it. Oh, probably.
  • Yeah, more than likely. They'll probably get us an invitation out in a few months. Uh, we had another comment. Uh, where are we? Ivan.
  • Okay, Marty. Marty said, "Is there a solo version for Goats and Goblins?"
  • Uh, no.
  • I don't think so. Uh, Sam, if you're still on the If you're in there, you better get us a solo version.
  • You got somebody asking about Goats and goblins. Marty, you'll love that one, too.
  • Has the uh has the idea of multiple game days, many still on hold? And if so, any idea when it might get uh it might start getting some thought of creation that's in that's in motion.
  • Yes, Mimi. Um we have been meeting uh we've been partnering with the board game wagon. Yes. And we have had some meetings. We may have something ready for 2026. May uh we are working on some ideas right now. And if we can get everything down by the end of maybe August or so. We'll have some announcements. But yes, Mimi, we are working on
  • You reminded me of an Italian couple I met once. They lived in a board game library that happened to be their house. Games and comics everywhere except the kitchen. That's That's how we were living.
  • That's how we were living. That's why we're moving.
  • That's why we're moving. That's how we mean. You walk into your closet, there's board games. They were everywhere. Everywhere in our closets. Everywhere. We had to go. Had to go.
  • Oh, Dean and I know each other uh other and game regularly together. Hey, that's cool.
  • That is awesome. That's cool. That is really cool.
  • Blaine, is there a category of game type or mechanism that you think is under represented in your collection? In mine is dexterity games. I think in ours is is rolling rights because
  • rolling rights and also horror games is not well represented because
  • horror horror mechanism horror well oh mechanism that's a theme yeah that's a theme so mechanism well everybody knows
  • co-op We don't have many co-ops in our collection. We don't have P pandemic. Pandemic is not in our collection.
  • We have several semi-ooperative games though.
  • We don't have no semiarpet. We don't have no semi-cooperative games.
  • Semi-ooperative games.
  • We don't have we don't have no semicoop. But we don't have pandemic. We only got one welcome to, you know, the big ones. Those are the big kinds that everybody floats to. We don't. We just have one. Welcome to uh you now. Uh I think was that uh just a few have gotten through the net of no co-op games. A few have slipped through. So we're we're kind of we're kind of sim kind of kind of kind of building toward them.
  • Say semi-ooperative. No, it's not semi. None of them are semi. None
  • We are moving every day. I'm trying my best not to do too much work. Trying to save my knees until I go to the doctor on Friday.
  • So, you're playing the part of a a movie monster to go find people and eat them up.
  • This is a really interesting game. Again, if you like theatrical stuff and you love you like drama, try this because it it you know they call no drama games, but it's drama in here.
  • It's a push of luck romp into a cave on the brink of collapse.
  • This is a treacherous mean game. And I love it.
  • You you pair up and then they have to sketch half of an image from two words and see if uh Match them. Yeah. Trying to try to guess the matchup of the two objects.
  • The tariffs are still an issue. The tariffs are still crazy and it's still affecting, you know, our industry.
  • Co-op is when people are working together against the game. Against the game. Yes. Semicoop is when people make their own decisions and then they collaborate with some of their other opponents or teammates in order to win the game, but you're able to make your own decisions.
  • Who runs the world? Girls. That's right, Matthew Rose. Who? The Barbie world. Girls. It's Yes, Barbie world.
  • Yeah, the move is going. We're almost done. Yes, we're moving to a bigger place. As we said before, the roommates just took over.
  • Nutcrackers stay. They stay. We don't get rid of nutcrackers.
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Video c6b1oNbOwhw Grant Lyon Top List at 6:09 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
  • Leans into drawing, which the host finds hilarious and fun.
  • Definitely leans into the drawing aspect.
  • Elicits a lot of laughter when drawings are combined.
  • Fun and silly drawing game.
  • Wants to play with a bigger player count.
Cons
  • Host is terrible at drawing, but enjoys it when the game leans into it.
Thematic elements
  • Drawing party game
Comparison games
  • Telestrations
  • Doodle Dash
  • Monstrosity
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • Drawing — I love a good drawing party game.
  • Split drawing — You don't get to decide who's doing what. And so we might end up you ideally you would want someone to draw the front end and someone to draw the back end, but two people might draw the front end, two people might draw the back end.
  • Team-based drawing — Um there are going to be two players and each uh like you're playing in teams and there two players in a team and you will have two cards and you are picking words from the cards and then both drawing it and then sort of putting your drawings together.
Video topics + discussion points
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Quotes (from this video)
  • Aquatica is one of the most unique games I've ever played because you're going to be getting these cards and sort of sliding them up into your board notch by notch.
  • And so you have these epic turns where you're like I'm going to slide this up that's going to help me get this card that's going to get me this and that's going to get me and ba ba ba
  • So, that adds this tension because every time you play it, you have to respond to what your opponent is going for and sort of block them off.
  • I love the mechanism I split you choose.
  • And I don't feel like it's used in enough games.
  • And so you are playing mind games the whole time where you're like, "Ooh, how do I how do I put something decently enticing on the top but not enticing enough that they want to keep that?"
  • Maybe they think, "Ooh, there's probably something better underneath that." And then I screw them and then I put something there that they don't want.
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
  • fun, party-friendly experience
  • creative and humorous drawing prompts
  • great for events and social gatherings
Cons
  • potentially dependent on drawing ability
  • needs real players to shine
Thematic elements
  • pictionary-like collaboration with word-derived prompts
  • drawing and guessing in teams
  • fast, party-oriented communication game
Comparison games
  • Just Desserts ( Tony reference; related through event discussions)
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • Drawing — teams draw and guess phrases based on adjectives and clues.
  • drawing-based word-guessing — teams draw and guess phrases based on adjectives and clues.
  • team-based play — players split into teams and alternate drawing and guessing rounds.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
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  • "Bagged and boarded... it's going to surprise us"
  • "I fell in love with it"
  • "If you like Comic Hunters, you'll love this"
  • "We are keeping our sanity. We're not going to go crazy"
  • "Maestro" is the new name for Art of Rivalry
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