Booping Your Opponent's Ornament Off the Tree

When a player boops their opponent's ornament off the edge of the board, they capture the ornament and place it in their scoring area (the gold ribbon corner nearest them on the board). Capturing all three of your opponent's ornaments wins you the game!

Booping YOUR OWN Ornament Off the Tree

To avoid your opponent capturing it, you may boop your OWN ornament off the tree. It simply returns to your pool without being scored. This can be an important defensive strategy.

Ornaments can be booped off the tree from any of these spaces on tier 3 & 4.

CATS CAN POUNCE TO CAPTURE ORNAMENTS!

If a Kitten would be booped into a space occupied by an ornament, the boop is blocked and the Kitten does not move.

This Kitten (a) will not boop away because the ornament blocks it.

However, once Cats are on the board, things get more complicated. If an adult Cat is booped onto a space occupied by an ornament (a "Pounce"), it will capture it. Then place the Cat back into your pool. Pouncing on your own ornament safely returns it to your pool. If it is your opponent's ornament, you capture & score it! So, try to avoid placing your ornament next to an opponent's adult Cat - unless you plan to boop things into safer positions during the second part of your turn.

Booping a Cat into an ornament will capture it!