Mouse Cheese Cat Cucumber

About this board game

Mouse Cheese Cat Cucumber is a quick, asymmetric tile-placement and hidden-roles game for 1–4 players, with sessions lasting about 20 minutes.

Prepare for mysteries and maze building as every player takes equal control of a clockwork maze, while each character follows a different secret agenda. The mouse is trying to get the cheese, the cat wants the mouse, the cheese wants everyone to get along, and the cucumber is evil and wants to trap all of the characters together.

On your turn, choose a room from the conveyor belt and add it to the maze. Your placement can cause other rooms to rotate and force characters to move, changing the maze and its possibilities as the game develops.

Although everyone controls the same maze, your hidden role determines what you are trying to achieve. Read the changing layout, anticipate the other characters’ aims, and use room placement to create your win.

Mouse Cheese Cat Cucumber offers four ways to play:

• Multiplayer: Compete through the game’s asymmetric hidden agendas.
• Two solo versions: Explore the game on your own in either of two solo modes.
• Puzzle mode: Assemble everything to complete a puzzle that you “win” by putting it together.

With rotating rooms, forced movement, secret objectives, and different character perspectives, each placement becomes part of the mystery. Whether you are pursuing the cheese, chasing the mouse, seeking harmony, or trying to bring everyone together, the maze is in everyone’s hands.