Cat-a-Comb

A group of mischievous cats are trying to play tricks and pranks on each other. That's just the way they have fun when no humans are around to annoy them by uncomfortably staring, demanding attention, and throwing things over the edges of their desks. These sneaky cats will either group together to form troublesome crews or assert ownership over every surface of the place. Sometimes, they get distracted by balls of yarn, but that's okay. They're cats, after all!

HOW TO PLAY:

The goal in Cat-a-comb is to get the cats stacked in all the right places.

To set up, each player takes all six cat cubes of one color (black or white). Place the nine tiles, three each of brown, white, and black into a 3x3 grid. Then, choose a player to place the three neutral brown cubes on a tile of each color. The other player takes the first turn.

On a turn, a player must either place one of their cats from their reserve onto a neutral or opposing cat sitting directly on a tile, creating a stack of two cats, or take a stack of cats from a tile and distribute them on the board. The bottommost cat is placed onto an adjacent space, then the next cat onto a space adjacent to the one just placed and if present, the final cat adjacent to that one. (A stack can consist of just one cat.)

Two cats of the same color can never be placed directly on top of each other, and a turn cannot end with a stack taller than three.

A player wins at the end of their turn if (1) they have a cat on top of the stacks of all the tiles of one color or (2) they have a cat on top of three stacks that are each three cats high.

Components:

• 9 Region Tiles (3 brown, 3 black, 3 white)
• 15 Cat Cubes (3 brown, 6 black, 6 white)