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  • AEG Dog Lover
  • AEG Dog Lover
  • AEG Dog Lover

Dog Lover

$24.99
Excl. tax

Designed by David Short

Ages 10+
2-4 players
30 minute playtime
1.67/5 complexity

Animals; Card Game; Open Drafting; Set Collection; Variable Player Powers

In stock

During the game, you will be fetching cards, collecting bones, and gathering food for your loveable dogs. You will rescue them from the shelter, train them on new tricks, and cherish their unique traits. The player who takes care of their beloved dogs best will score the most victory points and win the game!

In more detail, you start the game with a random dog card — which come in small, medium, and big sizes — as well as a random "special trick" card. Shuffle the game cards, then lay out the top nine cards in a 3x3 grid. Next to that, lay out three dog trick cards in an adjacent column and three rescued dogs in another column. The player farthest from the start player places the watch dog token next to one of the rows or columns, then the game is ready to play.

On a turn, choose one of your trick cards, rotating it as you desire, then collect cards from the 3x3 grid that match the pattern on the trick card, e.g., common polyomino shapes. You can take at most one card in the row or column under the protection of the watch dog. You can play and tuck cards both before and after you collect cards from the grid. What do you do with what you collect?

When the "End Game" card appears in the deck, you complete the round so that each player has the same number of turns, then you tally points. Each dog has a food requirement. If you meet that requirement, the dog and all its traits and tucked cards will be worth points. However, if you don't give the dog the right type and amount of food, you score -2 points for that dog and ignore all tucked cards that would otherwise give you points (Don't let your dogs go hungry!). The player who scores the most points is the ultimate dog lover!

 

Components:

  • 122 Game cards
  • 60 Food cubes
  • 16 Dog Trick cards
  • 15 Rescue Shelter cards
  • 1 Watch Dog token
  • 1 Score Pad
  • 1 Rulebook
Designer: David Short / Dogs

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