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First Rat

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Pegasus Spiele
PES5123G
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$45.89
Number of Players 1-5
Playtime 30-75 Min
Suggested Ages 10+
Designer(s) Gabriele Ausiello, Virginio Gigli
Publisher Pegasus Spiele

For generations, the rats in the old junkyard have been telling each other about the great legend of a moon made out of cheese and they want nothing more than to reach this inexhaustible treasure. One day, the little rat children find a comic in the junkyard that described the first landing on the moon, and thus the plan was born: Build a rocket and take over the cheese moon!

Fortunately, the junkyard has everything the rats require to build their rocket, and the other animals are willing to support this daring venture — at least if they're well paid. Of course, all the rats must work together to achieve this mighty goal. However, each rat family competes to construct the most rocket parts and to train the most rattronauts so they can feast on as much of the lunar cheese as possible.

In First Rat, each player begins with two rats and may raise two more. On your turn, you either move one of your rats up 5 spaces on the path or move 2-4 of your rats up to 3 spaces each as long as they end up on spaces of the same color. Your rats can never occupy the same space, and if you land in a space with another player's rat, you must pay them one cheese, borrowing cheese from the back as needed. After movement, you gather resources (cheese, tin cans, apple cores, baking soda, etc.) matching the color of the space you occupy or move your lightbulb along the light string, which will boost your income in future turns. (More lights in the junkyard makes it easier for you to find things!)

If you end movement near a store, you can spend resources to purchase a backpack or bottle top — or you can steal an item instead, with the rat then returning to the start of the movement track. You can also spend resources to create rocket sections (and score points) or spend cheese in bulk as a donation (and score points).

When you pick up apple cores, you move around the rat burrow to gather comics or stored food or raise one of your rats from the nursery. Alternatively, you will automatically get a new rat when one of your rats reaches the launch pad and boards the spaceship. When a player puts their fourth rat on the spaceship — or places their eighth scoring marker on the board — the game ends, and the player with the most points wins. In the event of a tie, the tied player with the most rattronauts in the rocket wins the game.

First Rat comes with a solo mode as well as variable game set-ups described in the rulebook.

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