Hand management / card limit

[u/M4rs119]

Hi everyone!

I have searched the sub and found no post on this, so I’m sorry if this has been discussed already.

I have all the expansions for base game, and I came to the conclusion that the problem of just playing late game is even worse.

Basically everyone just takes a lot of cards until people start to worry about exploding kittens. So its 40% of the game just drawing, 10% looking for the future or changing it, and then everyone has a lot of cards in hand and there are really long turns quite often.

I am mentioning games with 4/5 people or less, or idk, any game.

So I was thinking on how to balance the usage of cards throughout the game. What do you think of the idea of hand limit? What would you put it? I thought of 12 maybe

[u/LilishPH]

Early Game (Deck size 100% - 80%) - You try to draw as many card as you can. Collect powerful cards and use detrimental cards (like "I'll Take That"). You rarely play strong cards here,

Mid Game (Deck size 80% - 60%) - You still try to collect cards but be wary about EK. Playing strong cards sometimes being played here. Stealing/Favors sometimes are necessary here,

Late game (Deck size 60% - 1%) - Now the game gets serious. Hope you collected powerful cards because you'll need those to survive. Attacks/Skips/Nope/Stealing etc are a must at this stage in the game to survive. DO NOT PLAY "I'll Take That" or "Favor" (If Streaking Kitten is played) here.

[u/M4rs119 → u/LilishPH]

Yes i know, more or less what I wanted to say. But about the hand limit, have you thought about it?

[u/LilishPH → u/M4rs119]

But that would ruin the late game because you are restricting the resources needed for players to survive late game. Sure, it can make the game faster but it reduces the excitement of having many options.

[u/Next-Reputation5338 → u/M4rs119]

You should always a ´´game master´´ and before the start of the game remake the main pile according to number of actuall players..

I never play with all of the CAT cards.. I usually play with 2-3 sets based on no. of players.. plus feral cats..

If you take it as a rough rule... 10-15 cards per player plus 10-15 extra cards in pile is a good gold rule.

You know .. you want to balance the game and according to number of player add no. of skips, nopes etc.

And if you have all of the expansions.. trust me get the custom cards as soon as possible.. there is so many that can deal with card hording.. or getting unexpected moments even for first period of the game, so ppl using cards more than just drawing..

take care, have fun..