Game Info
Year
2026
Players
2-6
Age
8+
Playtime
25 min
Complexity
1.3/5
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Description
Press-your-luck dice game where players move cats into boxes while avoiding cucumbers
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Grant Lyon News at 25:31 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
Positive
Pros
- Fun theme
- Good for kids
- Quick filler game
- Portable
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Cats and cucumbers
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Dice Rolling — You will be rolling dice and you know it.
- Push Your Luck — you can roll multiple times to try to get the things that you want, and you can push your luck in the way that you're rolling and what you're going for.
- Set Collection — trying to get uh cats that you need
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Quotes (from this video)
- Cats Versus Cucumbers. Uh, this plays two to five players in 15 to 30 minutes and it is a lightweight game.
- A lot of the fun of this game is in the theme, right? You're trying to get different cats to put cats in boxes and that's going to score you points, but cucumbers, you can't reroll and they're going to scare your cat away, you know, because cats get scared of cucumbers.
- wombats uh poop square cubes.
- This is a they describe it as a bluffing game for two players, which intrigues me because I think bluffing games are oftentimes, you know, reserved for higher player counts.
- This is not a game about winning or losing or beating your partner. This is a game about getting closer to your partner.
- Uh, I've played Sea Scroll. Uh, some one, the art is awesome.
- this is a really quick playing game card game that like surprised me. I've really enjoyed my plays of Sea Scroll.
- It is a cooperative survival game, a campaign game that has a lot of different con content, a lot of different exploration.
- Soros is a pretty unique trick taking game because you're not doing trick taking with cards. You're doing them with these big chunky tiles They're kind of like domino tiles.
- looks really cool on the table. The table presence of hummingbirds is great
- which I love the title of that.
- This is a
- This is a dexterity style game.
- And it comes with those big emotional moments where you're like, 'Oh, no, it bounced off.' You know, or yes, it felt so good that it landed on there.
- Last Lantern was uh in my top five cooperative games of last year.
- And the cooperative polyomino is a thing I haven't seen before.
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Get into games Discussion at 0:46 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- A lot of fun
- Great for the family
- Great quick filler experience
- Cool feature of naming the cats with stickers
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Cats and cucumbers
Comparison games
- King of Tokyo
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Dice Rolling — Core mechanic involves rolling dice to achieve specific outcomes like moving cats, gaining fish, or collecting wool.
- Push Your Luck — Rolling three cucumbers results in a bust, and a ghost cat is removed, reducing the number of lives/rounds.
- Set Collection — Gaining fish tokens that are worth more points the more you collect.
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Quotes (from this video)
- Sometimes I think to myself, that's a strange theme for a board game.
- But then you see multiple board games with the same theme. All of a sudden, I'm full of cats and cucumbers.
- And if you thought that theme seemed loosely pasted on, well, hold my beer, cuz here is cucumber catastrophe.
- But winning a trick is really quite bad for you.
- It's a very very addictive straightforward trick-taking card game in its essence uh with some of these little tweaks and changes and those little things from things like Six N that make you really want to come back for more and more.
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The Dice Tower Review at 3:15 sentiment: mixed
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Overall sentiment (raw)
mixed
Pros
- Adorable theme
- Ammon Anderson producing a game with his wife is super cool
Cons
- Main dice mechanism is not interesting
- Only three rolls limit push-your-luck excitement
- Combination of Yahtzee and push-your-luck is disappointing
Thematic elements
- Cats and Cucumbers
Comparison games
- Zombie Dice
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Dice Rolling — players on their turn are going to roll the dice. They have up to three rolls
- Push Your Luck — it is a pusher luck game. Um, push your luck dice
- Set Collection — There's dice symbol for these little cute little fishy crackers. Um, and these are a set collection thing
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Quotes (from this video)
- three games that were sadly disappointments.
- It's just not really interesting at all.
- the scoring super convoluted and doesn't feel connected to the rest of the game.
- It's just very not interesting. It's very disappointing.
- Cats Versus Cucumbers. Uh, this one is by Levity Game Studio
- the actual main dice mechanism is something that I'm really disappointed in.
- It doesn't bring that excitement.
- So, I just think this combination um is greatly disappointing.
- So, I'm going to give this one a five.
- So, let's pull out the last game. This is Lunar Crearyy.
- I have questions. So many questions like where's the rest of the game?
- This is actively just missing massive chunks of explanations to rules.
- I don't know where the game is. So, this is a two for me.
- Those are the three disappointing games that I have to share with you today.
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Unknown Channel Review at 0:03 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Cute theme and art; family-friendly
- Rules are approachable and quick to learn
- Engaging push-your-luck tension with meaningful choices
- Appealing to all ages; accessible for casual play
Cons
- Blue dice on the player aid are hard to distinguish
- Luck-driven elements may frustrate some players
- Endgame duration can be unpredictable depending on busts
Thematic elements
- Cats, luck, and lighthearted competition
- Domestic home environment with cats; boxes and cucumbers as scoring mechanisms
- Bright and playful
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Bust and unbust — Three cucumbers cause a bust; cucumber tokens can be spent later to reroll and recover.
- Compound Scoring — Points come from cats in boxes, treats, toys, and remaining cucumbers.
- Dice Rolling — Yahtzee-style rolling with up to two rerolls; players save dice and choose outcomes.
- Endgame life-tracking — Nine lives are tracked; a bust reduces lives; the game ends after the final life is lost.
- Movement/placement mechanics — Cats occupy boxes; advancing or upgrading positions yields higher points.
- Push Your Luck — Players decide when to stop rolling to maximize points, risking busts.
- Scoring mix — Points come from cats in boxes, treats, toys, and remaining cucumbers.
- Special rolls — Certain roll combinations grant bonus turns or special actions (Perfect roll, Meowza).
- token-driven actions — Toy, treat, and cucumber tokens grant immediate effects, endgame points, or rerolls.
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Quotes (from this video)
- this game is really fun because you're pushing your luck cuz if you bust, you don't get to do anything besides gain the cucumber token
- it's cute, it's fun, it's great for all ages.
- I highly recommend it
- Cats Versus Cucumbers. Go check it out
- Meowza
- the perfect where essentially you rolled one of each thing and that lets you take a cucumber and immediately a bonus turn
- Push your luck
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Analysis at 0:03 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- The game gives a cucumber token even on a bust turn, which can be spent to continue re-rolling.
- Using all dice can grant an extra turn where all dice can be rolled again.
- Collecting a fourth 'treat' token grants an additional token, incentivizing pushing luck.
- The house rule significantly improves the game length and playability, making it a "fun light game" to play often.
Cons
- There is a possibility of a turn where no icons are rolled, and nothing is gained, and no bust occurs.
- The standard end game conditions (running out of tokens or lives) are rarely reached, making games potentially too long without a house rule.
Thematic elements
- Cats
Comparison games
- Farle
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Bag Building — The game involves placing cat tokens in boxes and advancing them on a track towards points, which is not tied to standard end-game conditions.
- Dice Rolling — The game involves rolling dice, with a specific mechanism for busting when rolling three cucumbers.
- Push Your Luck — The game features a "push luck dice rolling mechanism" where players can re-roll dice, but risk busting if they roll three cucumbers.
- Set Collection — Players collect 'treat' tokens for rolling sets of dice, with bonuses for collecting more than three of a kind.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- I really like that even on a bus turn, the game gives you something. The game gives you a cucumber.
- It is interesting that the game actually gives you more stuff for busting than not getting anything at all on on your turn.
- if you manage to use all of your dice on your turn, then you get to have a whole another turn after that where you get to roll all the dice again and keep on going.
- the game gives you a reason to push your luck even when you've already locked in the three that you actually need.
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Stonemaier Games Discussion at 6:46 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
none
Cons
none
Thematic elements
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none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
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No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Be kind, bring joy, and repeat.
- it's been really neat to take games that I considered really really good and to make them better products and also better designs.
- I joined the Tapestry Digital team at MindGate Studios for a 30 minute demo of Tapestry Digital.
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The Dice Tower Industry News at 9:31
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Pros
none
Cons
none
Thematic elements
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- I would never trust an AI in a dice rolling game.
- It's cheap.
- They better go full on like battle chess. I want to see those monsters walk in there and do the fighting.
- This is coming to iOS and Google Play from Mantita Games and Salt and Pepper Games.
- King of Tokyo is coming to Nintendo Switch and PS5.
- This is the perfect companion to cat flux and a great addition to the flux line.
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