Stretch Your Calves
Disclaimer: I make no apology whatsoever for any cow puns made during writing of this review. You may feel like there’s times I’m milking them dry, but I dairy you to not secretly enjoy them.
Onto the review! Moosic & Moovies is the latest expansion to the original Herd Mentality. It can be played stand alone or with the original. While the original was udderly brilliant fun, the limited number of questions means that playing in the same group mooltiple times leads to running out of new questions. It’s therefore a massive boon to bovinally have a beefy pack of 180 new ones to relive the fun with the friendship groups I exhausted the original ones with. It gets bonus points for those questions being in such an enjoyable field.
Stretch Your Calves
Disclaimer: I make no apology whatsoever for any cow puns made during writing of this review. You may feel like there’s times I’m milking them dry, but I dairy you to not secretly enjoy them.
Onto the review! Moosic & Moovies is the latest expansion to the original Herd Mentality. It can be played stand alone or with the original. While the original was udderly brilliant fun, the limited number of questions means that playing in the same group mooltiple times leads to running out of new questions. It’s therefore a massive boon to bovinally have a beefy pack of 180 new ones to relive the fun with the friendship groups I exhausted the original ones with. It gets bonus points for those questions being in such an enjoyable field.
Mooving On To The Gameplay
The rules are incredibly simple and with a quick graze of the rulebook, you’ll be ready to go. Herd Mentality and it’s younger brother Moosic & Moovies, play exactly the same way.
A question is read out and everyone writes down one answer. If you are in the moojority, you gain a point, if you are in the minority, you don’t. And if everyone at the table has the exact same answer except you, you gain the pink cow (in the original, replaced with a flashy new golden cow in this sequel), which sits in front of you so your shame has no place to hide.
When you have the pink/ gold cow, you cannot win until you’ve pastured it on to another player. The winner is the first to 8 points, though in a draw, gameplay continues in a sudden death until there is a clear winner.
Cowtailing Your Expectations
If you didn’t like the original, there’s nothing new here that will grab you. It’s just more of a good thing. If you loved the original and are in desperate need of more, then this is the cream of the crop.
I’ve played this with people of all ages (from 9-70) and it always goes down a treat, even with hardened beardy gamers who live for heavy euros with beige cubes about cotton trade routes in the Mediterranean. It’s very lively with more table presence than a sizzling chateaubriand and beautiful and sturdy cowmponents.
Replayability: Does It Stand Out From The Herd?
I won’t mince my words, it still behooves me to say it can suffer from the same issue as its predecessor that when you run out of questions with a group, that’s pretty much the end of the game. But the game is still great value and you can farm more value out of it, the more distinct groups you have to play with.
