Cats, Trams and Mice
Team: Bangers
How to play:
- The basic starting point of the game is to nominate a player within the game to become the “Cat”. The other players are the “Mice”.
- Once selected these players, an area must be chosen to be the playing area, so for example, one or two city blocks with a restriction of how far the limits are.
- Once selected, the mice get a five-minute head start running away from the cat.
- After 5 minutes the cat can move.
- Another main rule is you must only run along or within a few meters of tramlines, within the area boundaries.
- Players can then be ‘cornered’ into a line where they can be tagged
- Once the boundaries of the game have been agreed on, the players who are mice must escape the cat. Once the cat has found a mouse, the cat must tag them by drawing on them with a pen.
- Once a mouse is tagged, that player becomes a cat also.
- The winner is the last standing mouse.
- A time limit of 30 mins playing time applies too, and if no mice are tagged, then the mice win.
- An important element of the game is figuring out who the cats are, unless the mice can see a mark drawn on the so called ‘cats’ they don’t know.
- Mice can also go inside trams (mouse hole) for a maximum of one stop, to give an advantage to the mice.
- Another suggestion is to have the other players mobile numbers so they can be contacted when the game is over or to say where they will meet after the game.
- A pencil and paper may be needed to record wins and losses.
- An optional rule to even out gameplay difficulty would be to create a ‘cheese area’; which the mice must reach before being tagged as a cat. Eg. The cat chooses an area or object which is known as the cheese, which the mice must get to, and clearly mark and notify where this ‘cheese’ is.