Playing the haul from Spiel!

“Rescue cats from the street and help them get adopted in this purr-fect cooperative game for 1 to 4 players! ”

Published by SunriseTornado.com this is a fun little game where you play co-operatively with different coloured cards to try and get arrange them in order to trigger adoptions.

The game is basically co-operative puzzle solving. It has a nice mechanic where you effectively “push” new cats into the main board (the shelter) which then triggers pushing all the other cats along as well. You either take an unknown cat from the deck (“The Street”) or from a reserved set in-front of you (“The  Foster home”). The goal is to meet certain criteria of arranged colours to flip-cats over and get them ready for adoption. Then pushing them out of the edge gets them adopted and aids your end game scoring.

It’s a fun quick little game that I really enjoyed. There was enough innovation for me in terms of the pushing mechanic (and the constraints on it) that I hadn’t seen before. I also like that it is basically a puzzle you are solving together as a group. The theme is very well carried through into the mechanics as well, which is a big plus for me.

The only downside is it really needs a board to make it easier to keep track of the edges of the shelter. They give you 4 wooden cubes to try and measure out the space, but its a bit too easy to get confused about what is an “empty” grid slot, and what is beyond the edge of the shelter.

We’ve only played one game so far, and it hasn’t been one we’ve suggested to our friends out of the other games we picked up.