Katz & Schmaus Rulebook

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

• Game Components
• Setup
• Game Play
  • Calling "Katz & Schmaus"
• Game End

Game Components

• 1 game board (Spielplan)
• 1 box bottom, in two parts (Unterteil)
• 4 feeding bowls (Futternäpfe)
• 35 treats (Leckerbissen), 7 per cat
• 1 cat figure (Katzenfigur)

Setup

1. Each player chooses a bowl and places it in front of themselves.

2. Shuffle all the treats and place them face down (with the yellow side facing up) in the box lid. This is the supply (Vorrat).

3. Assemble the box bottom: first place part 1 into the box with the arrows pointing down. Then insert part 2 into part 1 so that the coloured slots match.

4. Place the game board on the box bottom so that the compartments of the box bottom and the cats above them match in colour.

5. Place the cat figure in the middle of the table.

Game Play

The goal of the game is to score the most points by feeding the cats correctly.

The game is played clockwise. The player who most recently ate a treat (Wer zuletzt genascht hat) begins.

On your turn, take 3 treats from the supply and place them face down on the field in the middle of the game board. If you are especially brave or already good at the game, you may play with 4 treats instead.

Then turn the treats face up. Everyone memorises the colours well. Afterwards, turn the treats face down again.

Now take the box bottom in both hands. Try to tilt, turn or shake the box so that the treats fall into the mouth of the cat with the matching colour. You may not touch the treats with your fingers or nudge them.

While you try to get the treats into the right mouths, your fellow players watch closely. If one of them believes that a treat has landed in the wrong cat, they quickly grab the cat figure and call "Katz & Schmaus".

As soon as this happens, you must immediately place the box bottom on the table. Any treats still lying on the game board are returned to the supply.

Then lift the game board and check together with the other players whether all treats landed in the correct cat.

Calling "Katz & Schmaus"

Not all treats were distributed correctly. The player who grabbed the cat figure receives all the treats from the box bottom and places them in their bowl.

All treats were distributed correctly. You receive all the treats from the box bottom and place them in your bowl. The player who grabbed the cat figure must return one treat from their bowl to the supply.

Nobody calls "Katz & Schmaus". You receive all the treats from the box bottom, even if some of them landed in the wrong cat, and place them in your bowl.

In every case, the next player then takes their turn.

Game End

If one of the players has 9 or more treats lying in their bowl, finish the round so that everyone has had the same number of turns. Then count.

The player with the most treats in their bowl wins. If several players have the same number of treats in front of them, they share the victory.