Designer	Christophe Boelinger
Artist	David Cohen
Publisher	Descartes Editeur Eurogames
Year Published	2001
# of Players	2 − 6
User Suggested # of Players	Best with 4 players Recommended with 3, 4 players (5 voters) [poll]
Playing Time	90 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages	8 and up
User Suggested Ages	3 (2 voters) [poll]
Language Dependence	Some necessary text - easily memorized or small crib sheet (2 voters) [poll]
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Subdomain	Family Games (7 voters) [vote]
Category	Adventure Animals
Mechanic	Action Point Allowance System Pick-up and Deliver Variable Player Powers
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Family	Animals: Dogs
Primary Name	A Dog's Life
Alternate Names	Dogville So ein Hundeleben Une vie de chien
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The object of the game is for a dog to locate four bones and carry them safely back to his home. Bones tend to be found in trash cans and are sometimes given as rewards for successfully delivering newspapers to various establishments. Players must also pay close attention to their bellies as their hunger level drops with each passing round. So, finding food is also a top priority.

Life on the streets is tough as not only must players search for food and bones, but they also must fend off rival dogs and that pesky dog catcher.

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Publisher: Eurogames

Artist: David Cohen

Year: 2001

Product Code: VIE

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0	General Want to Buy this game	2011-12-28	jgoyes	0
0	Variants Several variants that work for us	2011-05-11	rogerramj...	3
4	Reviews Dogville or Peeville?	2011-05-11	rogerramj...	3
0	General Breeds available, and differences?	2010-04-18	fatgreta	2
0	General 2 player?	2008-04-02	Rastak	3
2	Rules So what is the rule on dog movement?	2007-09-19	tomski	4
0	General This or walk the dogs	2007-02-18	johnnyLik...	2
5	Sessions Laying down a covering fire of piddle	2006-12-23	ccarlet1	0
0	Rules getting newspapers, remaining in restaurants	2006-10-09	arolfe	3
8	Reviews A Dog's Life - Review	2006-08-17	gschloesser	4

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For Apple MAC: NEW House Rules: A Dog's Life

An Apple "Pages" Document: This is simplified and revised (2010)"House Rules" for A Dog's Life... with two optional variants to add some additional strategy to gameplay. Otherwise, the house rules are designed to get the dogs out of The Pound... and out onto the street... where they belong!

rdbret

2010-07-12

Language independent charts for Struppi and Susi

English: Language independent, graphic chart of the single dog cards for a quicker appraisal of the single strengths and weaknesses of a dog. This file contains the tables for the dogs Struppi (brown) and Susi (red). German: Sprachen unabhängige, grafische Übersichtstabelle der einzelnen Hundekarten zur schnelleren Einschätzung der einzelnen Stärken und Schwächen eines Hundes. Diese Datei beinhaltet die Tabellen für die Hunde Struppi (braun) und Susi (rot).

JanMS

2007-12-05

Language independent charts for Rex (green) and Rudi (blue)

English: Language independent, graphic chart of the single dog cards for a quicker appraisal of the single strengths and weaknesses of a dog. This file contains the tables for the dogs Rex (green) and Rudi (blue). German: Sprachen unabhängige, grafische Übersichtstabelle der einzelnen Hundekarten zur schnelleren Einschätzung der einzelnen Stärken und Schwächen eines Hundes. Diese Datei beinhaltet die Tabellen für die Hunde Rex (grün) und Rudi (blau).

JanMS

2007-12-05

Language independet charts for Belle and Fritz

English: Language independent, graphic chart of the single dog cards for a quicker appraisal of the single strengths and weaknesses of a dog. This file contains the tables for the dogs Fritz (yellow) and Belle (pink). German: Sprachen unabhängige, grafische Übersichtstabelle der einzelnen Hundekarten zur schnelleren Einschätzung der einzelnen Stärken und Schwächen eines Hundes. Diese Datei beinhaltet die Tabellen für die Hunde Fritz (gelb) und Belle (rosa).

JanMS

2007-12-05

A Dog's Life.doc

A graphical analysis of each dog's strengths as well as a breakdown of each action.

rdjanssen

2006-10-18

know your dog.doc

labels for each dog laying out odds of success for various strategies

smithhemb

2006-01-31

Dog Card Statistics.xls

Analysis of Breed Stengths & Weaknesses

fizzix

2005-07-26

A Dog's Life.pdf

Corrected english rules.

fractaloon

2005-07-14

A Dog's Life.pdf

The rules in english.

fractaloon

2005-03-13

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Dutch review on speldatabase.be	http://speldatabase.be/spelinfo.php?id=2295&zoekcr...	2012-03-10
Game review at La Tana dei Gobin	http://nuke.goblins.net/modules.php?name=Reviews&r...	2004-12-01
Review and photos in French on JesWeb	http://jesweb.free.fr/critique/chien/chien.html	2002-06-17