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Eat Me if you Can!
Little Red Riding Hood and the family of pigs are living peacefully in the village – but one day, a hungry wolf appears who would dearly love to eat someone. Red and the pigs are in danger of being eaten! Rather than surrender to the plate, though, they decide to trap the wolf and shoo him from the village. Can they drive the wolf away – or will they all be eaten?
In Eat Me, If You Can, the wolf player tries to eat one of the other players to score points while the players, being prey, score by trapping the wolf. In each round, one player is the wolf and the other players are given Little Red Riding Hood (worth 3 points), Mother Pig (2 points), or a little piggy (1 point). Each non-wolf player then secretly chooses one of two cards in hand: Will the player sleep and rest, hoping not to be disturbed by the wolf? Or will the player set up a trap, thinking that the wolf will be coming for her? Once the players lay down their cards, the wolf chooses one of the players. If this player went to sleep, the wolf takes points from this player equal to the value of her character; if she set up a trap, on the other hand, she takes points from the wolf. Everyone else who rested this round scores points from the bank for their character — but only if they got their beauty sleep!
Whoever lost points that round becomes the wolf for the next round and hands out the character cards to players as she wishes. As soon as a player has ten or more points, the game ends and the player with the most points wins.
| Ages | 6+ |
|---|---|
| Players | 2 Players, 3 Players, 4 Players, 5 Players, 6 Players |
| Play Time | 10m |
| Designer | Jun'ichi Sato |
| Mechanics | Press your Luck |
| Theme | Bluffing, Deduction |
| Publisher | 999 Games, GoKids 玩樂小子, Japon Brand, Junias, Kunpu, Purple Brain Creations, Switch Games, uplay.it edizioni, Arclight, Hobby World, IELLO |
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Mutiplayer Prisoner's Dilemma with a cute theme. Spanish review: http://eldadodejack.com/2014/03/25/resena-eat-me-if-you-can/
dtroy_de_rapcore
[b][FirstPlayOn18thApril2014][/b] This game turned out to be a real surprise for me. I had the game and was waiting for the right time to pull it out. I read the rulebook and find that it was okay. As soon as we tried the game, man, it was surprisingly good. The game sets in the werewolf universe. I really like the bluffing mechanic in the game and the push-your-luck element whether you'll get caught by the wolf player or not. The decision making in this game is pretty simple but what makes it very fun was the choice whether to gamble or not. If you choose to set a trap (this is done hidden, with a face down card), then you want the wolf player to choose you, so that you get points. If you choose to sleep, then you're hoping that the wolf player doesn't pick you so you could score points. That's it, only two choices for the non-wolf player and that simple yet agonizing decision is what makes the game so fun. Very interesting for a such a simple game. The game has minimal components (can be treated as a micro-game) and it's just cool to see how well everything works together. [b]Status: Owned, 29th March 2014[/b] [b]Status: Threw away for recycling JULY 2021[/b]
jtakagi
This is very similar to Nicht zu fassen, and each one have their own faults which prevent them from being truly great games. In this one, the big problem is that certain houses are better than others - it's not fair that one player can earn 3, while another only 1. My kids are young enough where I don't think it's a big deal for them. They really enjoy it, and it's definitely a big plus that even very young children can play this unassisted.