MLEM Space Agency (Board Game)

In MLEM: Space Agency, you want to place your “catstronauts” on planetsand moon throughout the solar system — and if they happen to venture beyondthe Oort Cloud to the Milky Way at large, so much the better.

Each player in the game has a team of eight cats, each with a special power.Each turn, one player is the lead and places a catstronaut of their choice fromtheir remaining crew on the spaceship, after which each other player doesthe same.

The player then rolls six dice, and (ideally) chooses all dice of one valuethat matches a listed value for the spaceship's current location. On thestarting space, for example, you can choose 1s, 2s, or comets. You move thespaceship ahead equal to the sum of the chosen dice, then decide to eitherabandon ship — placing your catstronaut on the moon or planet next to yourspace — or keep moving ahead. Each other player can abandon ship as well,assuming that space exists. (Each moon can hold only one catstronaut, for whichthat player receives a fixed amount of points, whereas planets can hold anynumber of catstronauts, with points being awarded at game's end based onmajority scoring.)

If the lead catstronaut abandons ship, the next catstronaut on the shipbecomes the lead. Eventually either all catstronauts on the spaceship will havefound a new home — possibly even on a comet exiting the Oort Cloud — orthe lead catstronaut will fail the die roll, sending everyone on board backto Earth.

When all eight catstronauts of one player have been sent into space, thegame ends.