You may play multiple rounds keeping a running total of points until one player reaches 1,000 Goat Points. The creators have certainly shown lots of creativity creating a game that's so entertaining and amusing! Everything gets goat crazy when you attack opponents by dueling for their top GOAT Stack to beat your lowly goat friends. Everything gets goat crazy when you attack opponents by dueling for their top GOAT PILE or play action cards that give you magical goat powers and abilities to beat your lowly goat friends. The basic premise is players try to acquire a stack of cards consisting of matching goats, each of which is worth from five to fifty points.

It’s great when you know someone has a Chuck Norris or Leonardo de Caprio stack with several 25 and/or 50 wild cards and you have three action cards to help you steal it from them: play the action card where you ask the player to your left for their highest wild card until you get to someone who has a wild card to give you (players should be honest about it or why bother playing? When you play a pair of goats, they won’t be worth but so many points, as the goats range from five to twenty points, most of which are on the lower end. These cards allow you to do things like move a person’s goat stack to the top of their pile, allowing you to then try and steal it. The remainder of the cards can be placed face down in the center of the playing area, creating the Draw Pile.There were also some 1-2 star reviews from people saying Goat Lords is a blatant rip off of Uncle Becks Cover Your Assets but I don’t agree.

Every time you win a duel or play a successful action card, your goatherd value goes up, making you more likely to win, but also a target for your fellow Goaters. If you enjoy careful, deliberate planning and water-tight strategies then this game might not be in your favorites stack. Take top card and place it face up; this will act as the start if the discard pile (A wild cannot start it). Gameplay continues until a player reaches one thousand points or until the group decides it is over.Stacking Tip: Stack the first pair vertical, then the next horizontal, then alternating, keeping the corners aligned in an 'L' shape.

Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH).It’s all a matter of whether you want to play a game with action cards and cute and funny art work or a more streamlined similar mechanic game like Cover Your Assets.

If the top card on the discard pile matches a card that a player needs, the player may use it to form a pair.To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. If the attacker wins, they gather all of the played cards and the top cards on the opponent’s goat pile, but if the defender wins, then they can collect all cards played during the duel. There are actions that you need to work through carefully while being open to some level-headed, mature discernment.