Cats and Conmen

I haven't managed much wargaming this weekend, owing to various burlesque and Frocktober commitments, but Catherine, Maya, Satvik and I did a game session this morning.

First off we tried 'Hook, Line and Sinker', a game of con-men from Invincible Ink. 

The game consists of a mere 18 cards, and you play with a hand of three, which are kept concealed even from the owning player. Most cards are either a Hook, a Line or a Sinker, and each has some other special ability as well. Game-play allows you to look at individual cards, and swap them out of your hand for cards in a rotating pool in the centre of the table. As the game progresses you will learn more about your own hand, and even that of other players. At some point one of the players will decide to declare a Heist, and all hands are revealed. Only a hand which contains a complete plan (consisting of a Hook, Line and Sinker) gets to score; the player declaring the heist may not even have one.

For the first couple of plays it all seemed a bit random, but as we played more games (they can last as little as five or ten minutes) we started to see some tactics developing. And it's a game which rewards a good memory. It's not a great game, but it is fun. As with all Invincible Ink games, though the rules are a bit vague in places, and we had to house-rule how a couple of the cards worked because it wasn't clear.

We then played three team games of the terrible, but stupidly fun cat-themed Pictionary game 'The Cat Game'.

We played in pairs, and swapped partners around each time. I was in the winning pair in each of the three games, so can claim to be the family Cat Game champion!

Who is this singer?

Clue: It's not, as my son suggested, Ed Sheeran.