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Cat Burglars

2025

Cat Burglars

2–5 players · 20 min · 10+

Send your cat crews on daring missions to obtain the coveted “Golden Balls of Yarn”, masterpieces by the legendary artist Maximo Kattelan now on display in the mysterious museum. It’s your cat crews’ job to obtain them, but be careful! Other crews will try to loot your finds, so use traps to mislead them.

In Cat Burglars players take turns in clockwise order, performing one action per turn. They can choose from one of five available actions:

 Recruit two cats
 Form a cat crew
 Activate a cat crew
 Secure the loot
 Infiltrate

By recruiting cats, they form cat crews that will try to secure the Golden Balls of Yarn. Larger cat crews have a higher chance of securing the loot, but they take time to form. By infiltrating cat crews of other players, players might be able to snatch some of their Golden Balls of Yarn before they are secured. But beware of the traps the other players might set for you!

When a player collects eight Golden Balls of Yarn, they win, and the game ends.

—description from the publisher

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