Frequently Asked Questions

On this page you will find some of the questions that we are most commonly asked, and their answers.

• Where do the birds and mice go when they escape?
• Can there be more than one bird or mouse in play?
• I feel puzzled about what to do when you've got a handful of mice Mog cards but you've already got a mouse in your larder and won't therefore benefit from moving any more mice around the board.
• Can you pick a Cat Fight on either phase of your turn? And if so, does it replace that phase (or the whole turn)?
• If the opponent (of a Cat Fight or a Cat Attack) is on a Curiosity square; do you take a (Curiosity) card?
• Do you get caught Trespassing if another cat is sent home (by being attacked etc)? Or do they have to get home under their own steam?
• Is a cat fight only caused by moving onto an opponents square, as opposed to using a "Cat Attack" (card)?
• The victory conditions state that you have to have the six items and also return to home by movement. How about if you get caught raiding and get sent home after losing lives?

• Question 1

  Birds are returned to the bird box and mice are returned to the Mousehole Shed.

• Question 2

  A. Yes. All the birds and mice on the board can be in play at the same time.

• Question 3

  Try moving birds and mice away from cats that don’t have one. You can use your bird and mice cards to have ‘CAT FIGHTS’ and to move a bird or mouse out of a cats' larder using the ‘6 BIRD OR MOUSE CARDS’ rule. If all the birds and mice are in larders and you play a bird or mouse card, simply pick up a card from the Mog pile and move nothing.

• Question 4

  A cat can only pick a Cat Fight as the 'Play a Mog card’ phase of a turn, or when instructed by a Curiosity card to ‘Play another Mog card’.

• Question 5

  If you land on a Curiosity square, regardless of how you got there, you pick up a Curiosity card.

• Question 6

  If a cat returns to its Home square or garden by any means, any cat in that cats garden is ‘Caught trespassing’.

• Question 7

  A ‘CAT FIGHT’ is the same principle as playing a Cat attack card. If a cat is no more than 6 squares away, you can declare a ‘CAT FIGHT’, but instead of automatically winning, as with a Cat Attack card, follow the ‘CAT FIGHT’ rules. See ‘ATTACKING A CAT, BIRD OR MOUSE’ to attack a cat with a cat card or the dice.

• Question 8

  You must return to your Home square with the exact throw of the dice, not by being sent home. If you are sent home to a full larder, you must leave your home and return to your home square with the correct value dice. i.e. if you are 4 squares away you must throw a 4.

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