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Cut Mat

1993

Cut Mat

2–2 players · 20 min

A small box game for 2 players, Ages 6 and up.

Contents: Gameboard, 12 playing pieces, 12 bases, 32 cards.

Chess-like game where each player has 6 pieces - 3 Sir Cut (Scissors), 2 Stone Head (Rock), and 1 King Paper (Paper). Movement on the 24 space board is diagonally backwards and forwards and capturing opposing pieces is determined the same way as rock-paper-scissors:

Sir Cut defeats King Paper Stone Head defeats Sir Cut King Paper defeats Stone Head

The winner is the player to defeat their opponent's King Paper or to place their own King into the opponent's Castle.

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