Night of the Ill-Tempered Squirrel (2000)

About this game

Night of the Ill-Tempered Squirrel is a non-collectible card game for 3-6 players. Each player takes the part of a bad director attempting to make the worst B monster movie possible. Movies are filmed by playing cards representing the seven main elements of a motion picture: Movie Title, Actor, Plot, Monster, Special Effects, Set Location, and Finale. Each movie element card is rated in the industry standard "star" system where 1 star is very, very bad and 5 stars is Oscar quality. Cards can be played either on yourself or your opponents, but there is one major hitch: every movie element is played face down and you can't look at any of them after they are in play, including the cards that you yourself played! Additional special cards add hilarity to hijinks. Making a bad movie has never been so hard!

Does it fit your group?

• Group size. Works with 3 to 6.
• Rules load. At 1.0/5 this is a light game — explain it in a few minutes, good for a table that has not played much.
• Age. The publisher suggests 13 and up. That rates the rules rather than the artwork, so judge the box yourself for younger players.