The Happiest Cat in the World
Everyone furnishes an apartment for their own cat, tile by tile, and moves the cat around it. Whoever earns the most Happiness points wins. A quick, cheerful game to play with family and friends.
Your turn in four moves.
Move your cat
You move your cat token across your apartment's tiles. The first 2 moves are free, the others cost a tile from your hand. Each time it walks over a bowl, you score points.
Expand the apartment
Everyone has a small personal deck of tiles and 5 in hand. You place one next to your cat: a bed, a shelf, a toy mouse or a bowl.
Buy new comforts
Each tile has a coin value printed on it. The tiles left in your hand add up to your money for the market in the middle of the table. What you buy goes on top of your deck: you'll draw it next turn.
Draw 5 new tiles
Then it's the next player's turn. When someone reaches 60 Happiness points the end is near: you complete the round, then everyone plays one last turn.
🐾 The real dilemma: every tile you place makes me happy right away, but you'll never draw it again. Every tile you keep is money for something better. Choose carefully. I'm watching.
How each comfort makes me happy
🥣 Bowls
Points when you place one, and again every time the cat walks over it. A bowl goes on top of another tile, which stays covered.
📚 Shelves
Keep them together: 1 point for every shelf in the connected group.
🛏️ Beds
Keep them apart: 2 points for each bed alone in its row and column.
🐭 Mice
A Mouse token runs from your last mouse to the new one: 1 point per tile it crosses.
These are side A of the Goal tiles, the five tiles on the board that say how comforts score. Side B changes them in later games.
Furnish my apartment. Now.
This is a small trial with the real rules. Try to line up three tiles of the same colour: it's called a Cat Combo. A hint: move me onto the red tile on the left.
Tap a tile next to the cat to walk there, up to 2 steps before each placement. The grey tile with the bowl gives points when the cat steps on it.
Tap a tile in your hand, then a highlighted space. Beds, shelves and mice go on an empty space next to the cat. A bowl goes on top of a tile next to the cat.
Three tiles of one colour in a straight line, not diagonal, let you place one more tile at once, anywhere in the apartment.
On the grid: 🐱 is your cat, 🐁 the Mouse token, and +1 the points printed on a tile. The cat tree scores nothing, but its colour counts for combos.
Lots of tiles, a very demanding cat.
Contents: 1 game board, 4 apartment boards, 4 starting sets of 10 tiles, 80 amenity tiles, 5 Goal tiles, 5 Bonus End Game tiles, 4 cat tokens, 4 Mouse tokens, 4 Happiness markers, 1 first player token.
Eight quick answers.
That's what the box says. The first times, an adult should explain how comforts score.
According to the box, for 2 to 4 players.
On BGG, from 106 votes. For a first game the rulebook suggests the simple side of the goals.
You draw tiles from your own deck, and the market changes. What you do with them is up to you.
Nobody touches your apartment. You only compete for the tiles in the market.
80 tiles to buy, 4 goals with two sides each, and 5 optional bonus tiles.
Published in Italy by Asmodee. Tiles can be read at a glance.
You need at least 2 players.
See it on the table.
Watch It Played explains the rules, in English.
Is it the one for you?
You'll like it if
- you have a cat, or love them: you'll recognise every demand
- you want a game to play with children from age 8
- you want something to give to a cat lover
- you enjoy placing tiles and watching a little house grow
Skip it if
- you are looking for a demanding strategy game
- you often play alone: it needs at least 2 players
- you want to attack your opponents
For the first game, use side A of the goals.
It's the rulebook's advice, and the cat's too. Leave the bonus tiles in the box until you know the game.
What people ask before buying
What kind of game is The Happiest Cat in the World?
A competitive family game by Olivier Cipière and Oussama Khelifati, for 2 to 4 players, 30 minutes, ages 8 and up, published in Italy by Asmodee, weight 2.0 out of 5 on BoardGameGeek. You furnish an apartment for your cat using tiles from your own deck.
How do you play?
On your turn you move your cat, place a tile from your hand next to it, buy new tiles with the ones left in your hand, then draw 5 new tiles. The game ends after someone reaches 60 Happiness points.
Can children play?
The box says from age 8. The turn has four simple moves; the first times, an adult should explain how comforts score.
Is there a solo mode?
No, it is for 2 to 4 players.
What is a Cat Combo?
When a tile creates a straight line of 3 tiles of the same colour, horizontally or vertically, you may immediately place another tile anywhere in your apartment. Diagonals do not count.
How much luck is there?
Some: you draw tiles from your own deck and the market changes. There are no dice.
Do players bother each other?
Very little. Nobody touches your apartment; you only compete for the tiles in the market.
How do you score points?
From the points printed on the tiles, and from goals that reward shelves in groups, beds well spaced, mice that travel far and bowls your cat walks over.
What should I do in the first game?
The rulebook suggests using side A of the goal tiles and leaving the bonus end game tiles out.
Which language is it in?
This is the edition published in Italy by Asmodee, in Italian.
Well? I'm waiting.
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