Devious Weasel: Cosmic Frog

Cosmic Frog is a game of collection, combat, and theft on a planetary scale.Each player controls a two-mile-tall, immortal, invulnerable frog-like creaturethat exists solely to gather terrain from the Shards of Aeth, the fragments of along-ago shattered world. The First Ones seek to use the lands from the Shardsto reconstruct the world of Aeth, and your frogs are their terrainharvesters.

At the start of the game, your frogs descend from the Aether, the cosmic seabetween the worlds, onto a terrain-rich Shard of Aeth. Once on the Shard, youharvest land and store it in your massive gullet. When your gullet issufficiently full, you leap into the Aether and disgorge your gullet contentsinto your inter-dimensional vault for permanent storage, then return to theShard to collect more land. Although your frogs' collective mission is to gatheras much land as possible for the First Ones, your private goal is to proveyourself to be the greatest of their harvesters by delivering to them the mostvaluable vault. To do this, you have to fill your vault strategically in amanner that both maximizes linear sets of identical lands and maximizes thediversity of lands in your vault at the end of the game.

Throughout the game, you're free to keep to yourself and focus on harvestingat your own pace…or you may attack other frogs and try to take lands directlyfrom their gullets. You may even raid another frog's vault and steal the landsthey have gathered if they have been knocked into the dreaded Outer Dimensions.As you are all immortal and invulnerable, no frog is ever wounded or killed —just irritated and inconvenienced.

But don't ever get too comfortable with your carefully crafted plans as theAether is a chaotic and unstable place. Waves of Aether Flux will prompt you tomutate, and you may have to change your strategy in accordance with your newpowers. And Splinters of Aeth, tiny slivers of the old world that swirl madlyabout in the Aether, will periodically fall from their orbit and crash into theShard, destroying large areas of terrain and blasting apart the very Sharditself!

The game ends when the Shard is stripped of all harvestable land or when aSplinter shatters it. When the game ends, the player with the highest valuedvault wins, and the frogs move to the next Shard to gather more land for theFirst Ones…

Features:

• Players: 2–6
• Ages: 13+
• Playing Time: 45–90 Minutes