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Lab Rats

Lab Rats

RunDOS Studio · 2019
3–520–40 min8+ yrs1.3/5 complexity6.4 BGG#20.181 BGG100Party
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How do you play Lab Rats?

Lab Rats is a push your luck party game where the player take the role of a lab rat and must escape from a collapsing laboratory. The goal of the game is to collect four cheese tokens.

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Lab Rats box art
official art · RunDOS Studio

Lab Rats is a push your luck party game where the player take the role of a lab rat and must escape from a collapsing laboratory. The goal of the game is to collect four cheese tokens.

At the start of every round the players receive door cards(to create the laboratory) and potion cards (to pass obstacles). In each round the player must open doors and face what lies behind them. The doors are represented by face down cards played by all the players in the middle of the table. Each of these cards contains an obstacle or event that must be resolved by the active player when the card is tapped.

Most of the obstacles are resolved by playing the potion card that matches the obstacle. When a player flip an obstacle card that he can't resolve, the rat takes a wound. On a second wound the rat will die and by out of the round.

After resolving any door the player can end his turn and collect the rewards. He collect 1 yellow chit for each door card face up and 1 green chit for each door card face down. The yellow chit can be traded for cheese tokens and the green chit represent the rats being poisoned by the lab and will die if they take too much!

game anatomy
Complexity1.3 / 5
BGG rating6.4 / 10
Vibe
Party
Language dependence
No in-game text needed
🌐 plays without English
Play time
20–40 min
Players
3–5
Recommended age
8+ yrs
BGG rank
#20.181
from Trișache · verified

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Q3How do you play Lab Rats?
Lab Rats is a card game game, for 3–5 players, taking ~20–40 minutes, featuring push your luck. Check the Rules tab for setup, gameplay, and scoring, or ask Trișache anything about Lab Rats — our AI assistant built by howtoplay.ro and trained specifically on board game rulebooks.
Q4How many players does Lab Rats support?
Lab Rats is played by 3–5 players.
Q5How long does a game of Lab Rats take?
A game of Lab Rats takes about 20–40 minutes. (The first game doesn't count. It never counts.)
Q6What age is Lab Rats for?
Lab Rats is recommended from age 8.
Q7How complex is Lab Rats?
Lab Rats has a BoardGameGeek complexity of 1.3 out of 5.
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