Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). Better, play a couple of hands with another, like-minded gamer and develop the table rules in advance so that you can share with your other players as you explain the game. Everything gets goat crazy when you attack opponents by dueling for their top GOAT PILE or play action cards that give you magical goat powers and abilities to beat your lowly goat friends. So if you steal a big pile and succeed in holding on to it for an entire round, you can play a new stack on top and protect it. For example, if someone uses an action (not the dread raining fire-goats card), but say the Russian Goatlette, if someone plays Escape Goat, does that just apply to him/her, or does it stop the action?

I think it’s completely wrong for people to accuse Gatwick Games of stealing Uncle Becks Cover Your Assets game and simply switching it up by giving it a goat theme. Are you willing to battle with your friends, hurt feelings, and play aggressively to become the Lord of the Goats? BECOME THE GOAT LORD: The GOAL of this hilariously strategic card game is to become Lord of the Goats! I’ve bought four copies of Goat Lords and the expansion after giving away our other copies to two teen girls in college, a couple in their late 20s, and my in-laws who are in their late 70s and play card games with other elderly couples in their building.It can be a pretty brutal game at times if you can’t burry your large goat groups before someone else steals them, but that’s how the game works. If players cannot complete any of the above-mentioned actions, then they may discard a card and draw a new card.

The big stack was never to my right or left when I didn’t also have a high point stack on the top of my pile, which I would have to give to someone else. There were also some 1-2 star reviews from people saying Goat Lords is a blatant rip off of Uncle Becks Cover Your Assets but I don’t agree.We often find that games tend to bias the adults, as they understand tactics and gameplay better which makes it fairly tedious for younger players who rarely win (unless the adults let them! If the Discard Pile has more than five goat cards, then it may be shuffled and used as the new Draw Pile. Knowing how to play your cards, when to hold ‘em, and who to attack greatly affect how many points you end up when the last goat is played.

Know when to hold ‘em and know when to attack, as you are also a potential target for other players! I only took off one star for this (when normally it would be at least two stars off) because this is clearly supposed to be a silly game.Also, if you do make good use of the rotate card, you can then play a new pair of goats on top, meaning the big stack you just stole cannot be easily stolen from you. You may attack an opponent's top goat pile (or stack) by producing a goat from your hand (or a wild) that matches opponent's top Goat. The remainder of the cards can be placed face down in the center of the playing area, creating the Draw Pile. plus one more action; that action is to play the card where you pick a player to put a stack of your choice to the top of their stack plus one action; the plus action would be to play another action card, especially the one where it tells you to steal the top stack of any player and now you can steal the big points stack you just had someone bring up to the top of their big stack AND you get one more action; the last action would be to put another two matching goat cards on top of your own goat stack to “protect” your new, just stolen goat stack! If the defender wins, he or she collects the cards used in the duel and add them to the top (defended) pile.

Only so many people can play and one time so sometimes we play two people to a tam to get more players in. Stacking Tip: Stack the first pair vertical, then the next horizontal, then alternating, keeping the corners aligned in an 'L' shape. Complexity: (GO) The game is not complex, but I don't recommend it for the very youngest players in an unsupervised setting.You can end up winning simply because your last card happens to match the big stack allowing you to steal it. The player must have a goat card in their hand that matches the goats in the opponent's top pile, or a wild. At then end of the turn, players will refresh their hand from the Draw Pile, ensuring that they have the same number of cards that they initially started with.