We elected to skip the Origins Game Fair because its dates were too close to our favorite convention: Geekway to the West. It, too, had been delayed until the third quarter due to Covid. I chatted with Curt Covert of Smirk & Dagger beforehand and asked whether he would be attending. He was worried his schedule (and wife) wouldn't allow it — until I reminded him of what happened when he missed the same convention in 2019. ( Hues and Cues was demoed.) Kittens can't boop the larger cats, making later turns even more tactical. | Image credit: Smirk & Laughter Games Matthew Perry: Friends cast including Jennifer Aniston and Courtney Cox release joint statement on co-star's death

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Cats are stronger than Kittens, so Kittens can't boop Cats but Cats can boop Kittens and other Cats Want a chance to show off your acting chops? This short game (some reviewers have said they can complete a round in around 10 minutes) is played with one investigator and one suspect. Each investigator is given a pair of stamps and a topic of conversation that they'll need to interrogate their suspect.On your turn, place a cat/kitten which will in turn boop (push) any adjacent pieces (horizontally, vertically or diagonally) one space away as long as the space the booped piece would move to isn't already filled.

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Every time you place a kitten on the bed, it goes "boop." Which is to say that it pushes every other kitten on the board one space away. Line up three kittens in a row to graduate them into cats. . . and then, get three cats in a row to win. Manage cookie settings The Dicebreaker team saw and subsequently fell in love with Boop. at PAX Unplugged 2022. Watch on YouTube Where Shobu played the serious part of a traditional chess-a-like, Boop hides its diamond-hard tactical gameplay under a soft, fluffy dressing. But that isn’t easy with both you AND your opponent constantly “booping” kittens around. It’s like… herding cats!

If you have a set of all kittens or a mixture of cats and kittens, remove one of these sets from the gameboard and your supply gains 3 Cats. Note in case of a mixture all cats and kittens are still removed, with the kittens replaced by cats before being returned to your pool. If you have multiple groups of 3-in-a-row, only ONE group can be aged each turn With the pending arrival of the second print run of boop. by Smirk & Laughter Games, I thought it might be interesting to document the journey this game took since conception. I wish I had kept a formal diary, but I do not work that way. I hated journaling in middle school and would crank out months' worth of entries the night before the assignment was due. Here I am, 45 years later, doing the same thing. But that isn't easy with both you AND your opponent constantly "booping" kittens around. It's like. . . herding cats!

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Once again I went for simpler, which as is turns out is what makes the game so elegant. A six-by-six square grid was my final selection, and I was leaning towards seven pieces for each player. (I had narrowed it down to two players by this time.) Multiple playtests showed that seven was too few as players ran out of pieces too soon. One more was added, and I found that the eighth piece got played only around 10% of the time; this is when having eight-on-the-board became an alternate win condition (in addition to three-in-a-row). Adding an additional twist is the fact that neither player starts with full-grown cats. Instead, you’ll be placing kittens - getting three in a row lets you trade them up to cats, like a cross between Candy Crush and Pokémon evolutions. These kittens are naturally smaller and lighter, too, so they can’t push around the bigger cats, making later turns even more tactical as you line up combos of immovable chonk and flying feline.The next few months I didn't have to do a whole lot of work on boop. other than to peek at the progress Curt was making on the design of the box, the rulebook, and the quilt! Yes, instead of a crepe paper ruffle, boop. would include an actual stitched quilt as the board in every box! Now that I had decided on a base mechanism around which to build the game, the real work began. At this point, I didn't know how many pieces I would use, the size or shape of the board, winning conditions, or even how many players were at the table! The next two months would see many attempts to play up to four people (didn't work), employ different ways to win (simpler was better), come up with an ideal board size (more on this), and number of pieces per person.