Gary Gouda Rulebook

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

• Contents
• Game Idea
• Preparation of the Game
• How to Play
• End of the Game

Contents

• 1 cheese apartment (= bottom of game box)
• 1 Gary Gouda
• 1 cat Kiki
• 12 walls
• 16 orange mouse holes
• 8 violet mouse holes
• 24 cheese tiles
• 1 die rod
• Set of game instructions

Game Idea

You push Gary mouse from one corner of the apartment, passing through different rooms, to another corner of the apartment and feed him as many pieces of cheese as possible on the way. Gary of course will become increasingly fatter, making it ever more difficult to find mouse holes which he can pass through. Gary must try to not get stuck while also watching for cat Kiki blocking his way, again and again.

Whoever is able to memorize a suitable path through the apartment and collect the most cheese will win this witty cheese heist.

Preparation of the Game

Before starting to play for the first time you must slide the mouse holes into the slots in the walls. The eight violet mouse holes mark the four corners and the orange mouse holes should be slid randomly into the other slots in the walls. Make sure none of the mouse holes stick out.

Place the cheese apartment in the center of the table and place the cheese tiles with the symbols face-down next to the game box. Place the cat in front of any orange mouse hole and get Gary and the die rod ready.

How to Play

Who can eat the most cheese at one sitting?

This player starts and draws four cheese tiles. The symbols on the back are also shown on the floor of the room. Place the four tiles face down in the corresponding rooms.

Hint: It may happen that you have to put two tiles in one room. In this case you have to stack the tiles.

Now roll the die rod and place Gary in the corner of the color that appears on the die. Then you roll the die rod once again. The color shown indicates which corner is the target corner that Gary has to reach.

Now the cheese heist starts. Push Gary through mouse holes into a room where there are one or two cheese tiles.

Now you can decide if

• You want to place the mouse on one or both (if applicable) cheese tiles and slide it directly towards the target corner

Or

• You want to collect more cheese on your way. You are always free to choose in which room you collect cheese and when to push the mouse past the cheese.

But watch out! You may not pass the mouse through a hole where Kiki cat is lurking.

Watch out: The mouse holes all look equally large but they are not. You will find out how big they really are when you try to slide your mouse through. The mouse will pass through some holes even after eating one, two, three or even four pieces of cheese, others he can only get through with an empty belly. This means that each additional piece of cheese increases the risk of Gary getting stuck in a mouse hole.

• Have you guided the mouse to the target corner without getting stuck? You really are a talented cheese feeder! As a reward you receive the cheese tiles Gary has collected and can keep them in front of you.
• Gary got stuck? Oh dear! Gary is too fat! Unfortunately your turn is over. Take the cheese tiles Gary has collected up to this point out of the game and pass the mouse on to the next player. Then you can place cat Kiki in front of another mouse hole.

The next player takes as many cheese tiles as he needs so that there are four tiles distributed in the apartment and places them there. This player can now try his lucky mouse dip and hopefully will have memorized the size of the mouse holes.

End of the Game

The game ends as soon as there are not enough cheese tiles left to have four distributed in the apartment. The player who has collected the most cheese tiles at this moment wins and is the wiliest cheese snatcher.

Important: After each game take out the mouse holes, shuffle them and slide them back into the slots.