Catz, Ratz and Batz
Catz, Ratz and Batz Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Game Rules
In the Catz, Batz, and Ratz game (which can be purchased on-line or in game stores) there are nine 6-sided dice. Each die has a 3, a 5, a 7, a cat, a bat, and a rat. To start a turn, each player rolls all the dice. All of the animals are placed to the side. If the remaining numbers match or if there are no numbers, the turn is over. If the numbers do not match, the player chooses to keep one kind of number (all of the 3s, for example), and re-rolls the dice showing other numbers. The player may change the number being kept at any time until only one number remains.
After the player’s turn is over, the dice are scored. First, the numbers are added together to obtain a base score. The animals impact the base score in a slightly complicated way. Cats are always considered “good” and rats are always considered “bad”. Bats are “good” if the selected number is a 3, they are “neutral” if the selected number is a 5, and they are “bad” if the selected number is a 7. If the number of good animals is smaller than the number of bad animals, the player receives a score of zero for that turn. If the number of good animals is equal to the number of bad animals, the player receives the base score. If the number of good animals is greater than the number of bad animals, the number of bad animals is subtracted from the number of good animals (you must sacrifice a good animal to cancel out each bad animal). Each remaining good animal adds another copy of the base score to the total.
Here are some example scores:
- Cat, Cat, Cat, Bat, Rat, 5, 5, 5, 5. Base score: 20. Number of good animals: 3. Number of bad animals: 1. (The bat is neutral so it does not count.) Number of good animals remaining: 2. This means that two copies of the base score will be added to the base score for a total of 60.
- Cat, Cat, Bat, Rat, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3. Base score: 15. Number of good animals: 3. Number of bad animals: 1. Number of good animals remaining: 2. Total score: 45.
- Cat, Bat, Bat, Bat, Rat, Rat, Rat, 3, 3. Base score: 6. Number of good animals: 4. Number of bad animals: 3. Number of good animals remaining: 1. Total score: 12.
- Cat, Cat, Cat, Cat, Bat, 7, 7, 7, 7. Base score: 28. Number of good animals: 4. Number of bad animals: 1. Number of good animals remaining: 3. Total score: 112.
Players take a pre-determined number of turns or play for a certain amount of time and then total their scores.