Ragondins

"Fed up with being undressed in order to dress the human beings!"

In 1930, after a century of slavery on the cattle farms, the coypus flee. Will they manage to survive in nature? Finding food, building a shelter, resisting floods and mostly avoiding being poisoned by unhappy neighbors: such is the price of freedom!

Ragondins (French for "coypus", a.k.a. river rats) is a trick-taking game. Each round, each player in turn places a card from his hand on top of the first player's card, playing the same color card if possible. Whoever places the highest valued card of this color wins the trick and plays again. The food cards are positive and the shelters protect the food; the flood cards are negative and wash away first the shelters, then the food, from a player's collected cards. Some food is poisoned and costs you points, so try not to grab that! Whoever has the highest score after seven rounds wins.