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Rule the Roost

Hennen Jennen

Odynauts are aliens which produce hormones necessary for their survival when they win games – they have landed on our planet and are looking for new games … This time they have invaded a farm, in which hens are the price for a high stakes games on majorities and a kind of rock-paper-scissors mechanism! Roosters try to lure hens to the barn, the fox is looking for dinner and the farmer is chasing the fox!

You start with three rooster cards and draw two cards from the mixed stack of hen, egg, farmer and fox cards. Then all in turn place one card face-down next to one of the three barns and draw a card. You try to achieve a majority at a barn because at the end of the game, when nobody can play another card, you score one point for each hen in a barn where you have the majority of roosters. When an opponent plays an egg card in your turn, you must discard the card you chose to play; two egg cards played by different opponents cancel each other and the active player can play his chosen card and has another turn. Fox cards are scored at the end and eat one hen each. Farmers are played face-up and allow you to check the cards beneath a barn of your choice and to relocate a card; then the farmer is discarded. The farmer with the key enables you to look at a barn that has been locked with the padlock card; the padlock card is immune against an egg card.

A funny, quick card game, along the lines of “well, no rooster for you, because I play an egg card, oh, this other guy played one too, so I will have to put a fox into in your barn….” – a nice family game with a touch of holiday feeling.

Players: 2-4

Age: 8+

Time: 15+

Designer: Steffan Ros

Artist: Uco Egmond

Price: ca. 10 Euro

Publisher: Odynaut Games 2012

Web: www.odynautgames.com

Genre: Card Game

Users: For families

Version: multi

Rules: de en nl

In-game text: no

Comments:

Witty drawings

Nice background story

Very simple rules

Small, easy-to-take-along box

Compares to:

All placement games with action cards

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 1

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 2

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0