CURIOSITY KILLED THE CAT - coming soon to kickstarter
Transcript
Welcome to Curiosity Killed the Cat, a game of deception, bluffing, rituals, and cat fights. At the beginning of the game, you will be given nine life tiles. You are a cat, after all, and cats have nine lives. These are double-sided, one side showing life and the other side showing death. You'll also receive three times two meow to players, one curiosity token, one copycat token, and one scratch that token. All of which I will explain very soon. The first player will be given the your turn token, and it's now down to them to draw a card from the deck. They will look at this card and keep what is on there secret, because what they're going to do is offer it to another player around the table. Now, there is a little twist to this. I don't actually have to tell the person I'm passing the card to exactly what is on the card.
I can completely lie. You see, this is a life card, and I might well want this life card to come all the way back round to me, especially if it's later in the game and I've lost some lives. So, I might hand this to someone and be like, "This is a This is a death card. Do you want it?" Then it is down to the next player to decide whether they want the card. They do they believe that? Do they really want a death card? Probably not. So, they might well exhaust one of their lives, so they can look at the card and then pass it on. But, they might change their mind about what's actually on the card. He told me that this was a death card. It's not a death card. This is a cat burglar card. Do you want it? Eventually, the card will be looked at.
Someone will either decide, "Yes, I believe you. I want that card. I'll take that card and deal with the fate that has been bestowed upon me. They also might just want to keep passing it round so it goes back to that first player and then they have to deal with the fate that they initially set into motion. There are five different types of cards that you will come up against in this game. Firstly, there are life and death cards. These normally will either have a number on them or an image of a dice. If they have the image of a dice, players will roll the dice and fate will decide just how much life they gain or just how many lives they lose. Another card you might well find in the deck is the cat burglar card. This is a very simple card that if you get the cat burglar card, you can look at another player, take one of their life tokens and keep it in your supply. They've lost a life forever and you may have just gained your 10th.
Then we have the cat fight card. This will pit one v one in a cat fighting duel to see who is the best. And what better way to do that than card-based rock, paper, scissors? The person who accepted the card will be given a deck of six cards and they will also then choose another player from around the table to give them a deck of the same cards. Each player will then at the same time decide one of those cards in their hand to play in front of them. This card is out of their hand and they're not going to use it, but it also gives a little bit of information to the other player. Now I played one boop card and discarded it, the other player knows that I only have one boop card left in my hand. You see, there are two scratches, two boops, and two pounces.
Now it is time for rock, paper, scissor warfare with cards, scratches beating boops, boops beating pounces, and pounces beating scratches. You will play three rounds of this and each round that you lose, you lose three lives. This really can be a game-changer and twist the game on its head, so be careful who you are choosing to play against and how much they know you. You see, in Curiosity Killed the Cat, bluffing is everything. And then you have the ritual cards. There are three types of ritual in the game. There is the immortality ritual, the sacrifice ritual, and the fate ritual.
When you play a card into each ritual, they'll all have a certain action that takes place. For example, the immortality ritual, as soon as you play a card into that ritual, you will gain one life. When it comes to the sacrificial ritual, when you play a card into that ritual, you have to lose one of your lives and sacrifice it to the gods. Then you have the fate ritual. When you play a card into the fate ritual, you have to flick the fate coin and roll the fate dice. This coin has a picture of a cat on one side and a heart on the other, symbolizing death and life. You will then flip that coin and roll the dice. Whatever number is showing on the dice and whatever symbol is showing on the coin, you have to action that. So, if it lands on the cat side up and you roll a 1 2 3 or 4, that is how many lives you're going to lose. If you roll the heart, however, that is how many lives you're going to get back. So, that's how each of the three sacrifice boards play. However, when you play the final card into each sacrifice board, that is when something a bit special happens.
If you play the final card into the immortality board, not only do you gain the one life on the card, you will gain the cat soul from that board, which is one of the winning conditions. You may now have a second cat, or that might even win you the game. Not only that, you will gain the Ankh token. This token can be used. If you were ever in a situation where you were about to lose your last life, you can play the Ankh token, discarding that so you don't lose that life. So, you stay in the game just that little bit longer. If you play the final card into the sacrifice ritual, then of course, you have to get rid of one of your lives and sacrifice it to the gods, but again, gaining one cat soul of the relevant board.
This has a special effect, which is the hex. Now, the hex is a fantastic event. If you are ever dealt a death card, you can choose to discard the hex to deal that death card to any player you choose. And finally, the fate ritual. If you are to play the final card into that ritual, not only do you roll the dice, flip the coin, and see what happens, you will again gain the soul relevant to that board, which is this lovely little silver cat soul, so you can put it in your win condition, and you will gain these three twists of fate. Using these when you get given either a life card or a death card. If you are given a death card, which has got a high number, and you don't really want to lose six health right now, I can't really afford that because I'll be out of the round, you can spend one of your twists of fate to roll the dice instead, and take whatever is dealt to you that way. This can also be the same with a life card. If there's a life card with a one, you might want a few more, then you can spend one, roll the dice, and change the number on the card.
You see, and then there's these six tokens in front of me. It's all well and good taking a card and going, "Well, this is definitely a life card. Did you want to take it?" Now, if you really wanted to bluff that, why not use one of your meow to players? Meow to player is a doubling effect of whatever card you are handing, as long as it's a numerical value, so a death card or a life card. You basically place it on top of the card and be like, "Times two, it's definitely life. Do you really, really want this life cuz I'm giving you loads of life." Of course, that might be a very heavy bluff, so that person might say, "No." And they'll discard one of their lives, and then they'll look at the card themselves and pass it on. The times two is then gone, and it's flipped. These tiles are all one-time use. So, you have to be careful when you play them to get the maximum effect out of them. These can be used on life and death cards. Other than your three meow to player cards, you get three other tokens. One is scratch that.
That can just suddenly say, "Nope. Don't fancy that." to any card played. So, if you don't want someone to give someone a death token or give you a death card, you can just say, "Nope. Actually, I'm good. I don't want that death today." Again, a one-time use. There is also curiosity. Now, curiosity is a great card. It means essentially you can look at the card and then decide whether you take it or you pass it on. If you pass it on, you still have to lose a life like normal to pass it on, but it's a great way to make sure that you're not being bluffed, and also try to learn what your opponents are thinking. And then there is copycat. Copycat is fantastic because it will copy the effect happening to another player around the table. So, if a player across from me has just managed to save themselves and get four lives back, I can then spend my copycat and get four lives back myself if I really needed it.
The other thing that's great about having a copycat is if you are out of the round and completely dead and buried, you can still use copycat if it's available to you to come back into the round. So, you'll be drawing cards, playing cards, bluffing, lying, dying, living, playing tokens, playing rituals, sacrificing cats, gaining life, flipping coins, and rolling dice until the correct amount of souls has been won. Now, this depends on player count how many souls you need. For two players, you need five souls. For three players, you need four souls. And for four players, you need three souls to win. This can be a mix of main souls for winning a round as well as souls from certain rituals. As long as you have the relevant number of souls, you will win the game. Curiosity Killed the Cat is coming to Kickstarter this September. So, make sure you are following Worgen Games and keeping up-to-date with the campaign. This is a prototype copy of the game that was sent across for this video. Saying that, some components may change and alter slightly. So, just keep that in mind when you're looking at the campaign.
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