Got Your Goat?
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Games about goats!
A theme night list.
Any to add? No sheep please. They are already covered by
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/2592
There are several games in which goats play a role, but only a rather small one. In order to let the real goat games shine, these games are listed here, but will not have entries:
Agricola - There's a house pet goat card in this game of medieval farming.
Chupacabra - Organize packs of Chupacabras to tackle the growing herds of goats; not exactly a game for capriphiles perhaps.
Arkham Horror: The Black Goat of the Woods - An expansion kit for the Lovecraftian Arkham Horror game.
Magic: The Gathering - Features cards "Summon the Goat" and "Goatnapper". (Thanks to kswingruber.)
India Rails - You can pick up goats in Lahore, Pakistan or Katmandu, Nepal. (Thanks to Erniepaul.)
You're Bluffing! - The goat's worth 350. (Thanks to Chris Sjoholm.)
Mongolian Goat Rodeo - The goat is a ball in the game of polo.
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Günter Burkhardt
Amigo Spiele
2007
3 - 6 players
Trick-taking game capture as many goats as possible. But your hill only supports a certain number of goats with food. So in the end, you have to spam your opponents with the rest.
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Alf Seegert
Pegasus Spiele/Z-Man Games
2009
3−6
Three billy goats gruff apparently feature in this one.
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Günter Burkhardt
Amigo Spiele
2008
2 - 5 players
Collect the best set of goats and herd them to your stables.
A re-working of Kupferkessel Co. which tolerates more players.
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In this 2009 card game by Guenter Burkhardt (who seems to have the goat market all locked up), only the goats count!
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Peter Schackert, Klaus Zoch
Huch & Friends
2007
2 - 4 players
Roll a small metallic ball towards a goat sitting on top of or near a very strong magnet. The magnet attracts the ball and flicks the goat in a certain direction.
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Traditional abstract popular in Nepal is a rare antisymmetric abstract strategy game where one plays four tiger pieces and the other plays twenty goats.
If this makes you wonder if there is any list about tigers available, you can veer off here: http://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/392
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Greg Costikyan
Tor Books
1988
2 - 6 players
Based on the George Lucas movie, characters are either Good or Evil. If Good, they must try to keep the baby, Elora Danan, out of the evil Bavmorda's clutches and take it to safety. If Evil, try to find the baby, capture her, and take her to Nockmaar Castle. One of the Good characters starts with Elora Danan, but the Evil players do not know who. Thus the Evil players move around the board, searching for the Good characters and fighting them in an attempt to capture the baby.
One of the cards transforms a character into a goat.
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The entry for Goats on Boats made me think to look for this.
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Günter Cornett
Spielbox
2003
2 - 4 players
Drive your goats from the pasture into the barn making effective use of guard dog Luise. Tactical die-rolling game.
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Beleduc
2001
2 players
Dice and tactics determine which player's team of three goats reaches the mountain peak first.
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Schaper
1973
2 - 6 players
Take turns stacking blocks at the end of the playing surface. Eventually the weight of the blocks will cause the rubber-band loaded billy goat to launch into the wall of blocks, knocking them down. The player who was putting a brick on the wall when the billy goat was triggered is now out of the game. The goat is reset, and play starts over.
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Ottman Lithography Company
1900
2 - 4 players
Similar to Old Maid, but using Buster Brown characters. The goat is the card you want to avoid getting stuck with.
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Great American Puzzle Factory
1995
1 - 5 players
Similar to Memory, but the cards show goats on boats.
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David L. Van Slyke
DVS Games
2002
2 - 4 players
Try to guide your goats to the Island of Good Grass, avoiding trolls and the dragon, or better yet, sending them to your opponents.
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Frederick Brelot
Neuroludic
2003
3 - 7 players
The wolves eat the goats. The goats eat the cabbage.
During each round, players simultaneously reveal a character card (cabbage, goat or wolf), and in order, every player can try to eliminate certain character cards that are preventing them from winning.
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Parker Brothers
1966
2 - 6 players
The playing board is a fitted three dimensional structure. Players use Goat playing pieces and collect tin cans from the Goat Pen to score. Spin and move. Draw a card and follow instructions if move ends on a colored space. If move ends on a Star space, the players places their Goat on top of the nearest object (haystack, stone wall, etc.) and collects a can from the pen. Goats that collected a can by landing on a Star space and are now on top of something, must spin greater than one to jump down (costs one movement) or stay until they do. You must maneuver your way onto the roof of the barn to end the game.
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Board Game: Pagoda
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Luke Weisman
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2001
2 players
Be the first to build a chain of your pieces from the base of a mountain to the pagoda on top, and back down again. Your pieces are four of the steps in the cycle of life: worm, goat, human, and Buddha.
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Alfred Das
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Christine Lehmann, Wolfgang A. Lehmann
HABA (Habermaaß GmbH)
2003
2 - 4 players
It's all about little goats and the wolf. The game even includes goathead-meeples...
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Billings and Bozeman
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There are mountain goats in this game!
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You will need luck rolling the die and a good memory whilst hunting the billy goat. But watch out: If you are too slow, you can get a poke ...
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1984 - Seven little goats hide in a house as the wolf is coming. As in the fairy tale, one of them hides in a clock (which is a frame for a sand timer), the others hide in other pieces of furniture (the beautiful material actually contains wooden little furniture with space to hide the goats. The players take turns rolling dice. The wolf moves toward the furniture, the goat player moves the chairs to block the wolf's path. When a clock symbol is rolled, the sand timer is set in motion (wolf's roll) or suspended (goat player's roll). If the wolf manages to find all goats before the sand timer has run through twice, the wolf is the winner; if not, the goat player wins.
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start at the bottom of the mountain and race to the top
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A dice rolling game with a colour dice, little plastic goats in 4 colours and 4 trains for transportation.
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Board Game: GaroBouc
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The title could be translated by "Mind the goat" :
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Billings and Bozeman
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For the goat list, I almost added Agora since it's very close to the spelling of the Angora breed of goats.