ScottVee Gaming

We found this one at the State Park gift shop in Borrego Springs.  I did a quick read of the rules a few days back, and it seemed very simple. It was even more simple than that.  Players take turns flipping cards face-up onto a central pile.  If you see a dog and its matching owner come up back-to-back, slap (or "pound") the deck and take all the cards. Aside from the three special cards, that's all there is to it.  Those special cards are: - Dog Catcher = take the stack but leave the dog catcher as the start of the next stack - Dog Biscuit = first player to pound the deck takes it all - Fire Hydrant = add another card to the pile Last rule: if you pound the deck and the cards did NOT match, add an extra card to the pile.  Sometimes you get two of the same dog or owner and think it's a match.  Whoever ends up with all the cards is the winner. This would be fun for a while for some very young players.  There's nothing here to keep us entertained beyond ...

We got Zoomies a few weeks back but didn't have a chance to play it until now.  It looked simple enough, just a big stack of oversized thick dominos with fun dog art, and some little tokens. The game starts with three dominos face up in the middle of the table and each player with two dominos in hand. Basically, each round you play a domino and put a token on top.  When both players have used all their tokens (or were forced to discard them) the game is over.  Scoring is done at the end of the game.  The tokens are: - Leader: you get one point for all matching adjacent dogs in the pack - Frens: you place on one dog pointing at a different dog and those two are now friends, at the end of the game you get 2 points per pair of friends - Zoomies: you make a group of adjacent dogs with the zoomies (paw) icon, and get 1 point for a group of one, up to 15 for a group of 5. - Bones: you make a group of adjacent dogs with the Bones icon and get 2 points for each It's a bit co...

"Space Puppies": They sold us on the cute box and title.  Our collection is heavily geared toward games with cats and dogs.  And space.  So yeah, Space Puppies.  The game comes with a nice mat to put the draw pile, discard pile and planet cards on.  You start with 5 cards, and then the rules tell you ... pretty much nothing.  One spot says you "play one or two cards" in your turn, the other spot says you "take one or two of the moves listed here."  The tiny rule sheet says nothing about whether you play cards face up in front of you for any reason.  It actually says to study the cards to learn what they do.  Really? Here are the rules cards, which are not that helpful.  We figured there would be a website on the box with a helpful video -- that is almost the standard these days.  But the site was non-existent. What does "add dogs to your collection mean?" You can "play action cards on an opponent" but some cards must obviously be pl...