Cheese Chase

Cheese Chase is about a mouse who tries to find all the cheeses before the cat finds her.

Your secret card tells you your role (but it may be exchanged to an opponent). When you are the cat player, you win if you exchange it to the mouse player or vice versa. When you are the mouse player or any of the cheese players, you win when all cheese cards have been found.

Each player has one card (or a tableau of cards if 2-4 players). One card is a cat, one card is a mouse and the remaining cards are cheeses. The players take turns to draw any opponent’s card and look at it.

If the cat player draws the mouse card or vice versa, the cat wins instantly. If the mouse player draws a cheese card or vice versa, the number of the cheese is crossed out. If all the cheeses are crossed out, the cat player loses and all other players win. If the game does not end, the player secretly chooses any one card to return.

The continuous change of roles makes the game unpredictable and keeps the players in uncertainty. The mouse will occasionally be revealed and take a cheese but where did it go afterwards and where is the cat?

—description from the designer