Cat Lady reprise

We brought Cat Lady back over from my place and it was more fun that we had remembered.  Sure, there are a bunch of different scoring options to keep in mind: feeding the cats, the catnip, the costumes, who has the most different types of toys and such.

The overall flow of taking a row or column of 3 cards, and then having the cat token say which row or column is not available all went very smoothly.  The Spray Bottle card lets you move thte cat token to another row or column when you really want those cards that are blocked.

I put together a handy little score sheet to help wrap up those final numbers.

You can download the PDF here.

Since all the food and lost cat cards end up on the discard pile as you trade them for food tokens and Stray Cats, you have to shuffle well or you will get a grid of just food.  Sometimes there are too many cats and not enough food, other times no cats show up for the first five or six turns.





I suppose you could really study the available cards and make the best choices, but we got into a fairly rapid play where we try to grab cards and as much food as possible to feed as many cats as possible, and then at the end someone wins by surprise based on toy counts.  It's a bit hard to predict.

We didn't see a reason to keep cards in our hands, so we each kept piles of catnip, toy and costume cards in front of us.  We weren't about to try and count each other's stacks, we just tried to do the best we could with the cards available.  We got into a pretty frantic pace of grabbing the cards and putting them in the right piles, and dealing out more.  I wanted to slow it down a bit by announcing the name of each new cat in play, but it just got frantic again.

So, Cat Lady is a keeper and has a fun groove to it.  I think in my previous post I said that the artwork was lacking character, but it's there.


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