Getting my devious cat out of a box can be a nightmare! Now you are telling me that Bezier Games are encouraging me to keep him in there?! All jokes aside, the makers of One Night Ultimate Werewolf will be releasing a new social deduction game to the market. Giving Exploding Kittens a run for its money in the upcoming title Cat in the Box: Deluxe Edition.

Cat in the Box Deluxe Edition // Bezier Games

The title was initially released in Japan in 2020, and now the deluxe edition is coming to a wider market in a trick-taking experience playing on Schrödinger’s cat theory.

Unless you have been living in Schrödinger’s Box, the theory is simple: Think of a cat and something that could kill the cat placed in an air-tight sealed box. In a nutshell: until you open that box you do not whether the cat is dead or alive. So at that moment, the cat is both - playing on the uncertainty principle.

Box Contents // Cat In The Box

What Cat in the Box does is place 2-5 players in a constant state of trickery. Players will have a series of cards and this card colour is not defined until it is played. Declaring it to the table. Players will then take their turn to bid on how many tricks they think they will win based on how many cards are sitting in their hand. Players will then take note of value on the community research board and add tokens to the board to score some more points.

This seems simple, be warned: once a card has already had its colour claimed with the same number - this cannot be done and will catastrophically end the round. Therefore players must place strategically - the more rounds they go through the closer to the paradox they will get to. Meaning a struggle for points by tricking opponents.

Card Preview // Cat In The Box

The game is set to be released in August this year, and is already up for pre-order on the Bezier Games website. The rules are also available to be downloaded if you want to get your head around the paradox too!

It certainly looks like an interesting social deduction game, one that I would love to bring out on games night. My group tends to like trickery and stabby tactics, and Cat in a Box seems as if it would bring out some fierce competition in them all.

Pascal enjoys sitting in the lids of my board game boxes after I have taken them off. Cat in a box achieved?