Swinging Jivecat Voodoo Lounge

About this board game

Swinging Jivecat Voodoo Lounge is a cocktail-themed strategy game for 2–5 players, with games lasting about 60 minutes. Travel back to the 1950s, influence lounge-goers, and build social cliques while competing to become the king of the voodoo lounge.

Each player begins with a hand of four cards. On your turn, use cards for their face values to claim low-brow contacts, or use their special powers to reach valuable Jivecat contacts and cast spells. Card values can be added or subtracted, letting you target precisely the contacts needed for your plans.

• Link contacts across the Lava, Cocoa, Tiki, and Neptune lounges.
• Use Zombie, Rada, Cheval, and Voodoo spells to influence the game.
• Claim Trend cards by creating specific contact configurations.
• Collect orange monkeys worth 1 point and blue monkeys worth 5 points.

Jivecat contacts score points, but they are limited, so multiple players may compete for the same coveted contact. A Zombie card can also be placed in your tableau by paying a skull, extending your hand and allowing its value to be used over several future turns.

Skull Cards provide skull-token rewards that power your voodoo spells, while the Trend card track offers monkey rewards and special bonus abilities for maintaining the required configurations. Each player stores contact chips in a martini glass and hangs scoring monkeys from its rim.

When a player reaches fifteen monkey points, the current round is completed. After bonuses are awarded for maintained trends, the player with the most monkeys wins. Adding to the theme, every card includes a different cocktail recipe for adult players to mix and enjoy, making Swinging Jivecat Voodoo Lounge a distinctive blend of set building, card manipulation, and supernatural cocktail culture.