card games

The family that I babysit for has a new card game.  The middle child picked it out the other day, even though I wanted to play There's a Moose in your House.

The game is called Fowl Play.  I realized that the middle child was lying to me about reading the directions when he started to tell me that the rat popped the chicken's balloons.  He had determined that the wolf was a rat from the pictures, but I (being the smart detective that I am) realized that he didn't read the directions since the culprit of the game was more likely a wolf (since most of the cards were chickens) and not a rat.

Anyway, for the most part it is your own fault if you lose.  You get to pick chickens until you say "stop."  If you pick up a wolf card before you say stop you don't get any points that round.  If you say stop before you get a wolf card- you get points for however many chickens you had.

Don't be greedy.