Lab Rats

Players take the roles of rats escaping from a collapsing laboratory, aiming to collect four cheese tokens. Each round, players receive door cards to build the laboratory and potion cards to overcome obstacles. On a turn, the active player opens face-down doors and resolves the obstacles or events revealed. Matching potion cards prevent wounds; a second wound removes the rat from the round. The player may stop after resolving a door to collect rewards: yellow tokens for revealed doors, which can be exchanged for cheese, and green tokens for unrevealed doors, representing poison that can prove fatal.

Players: 3–5 best 4
Playing time: 20–40 min
Age: 8+
Complexity: 1.3 / 5