Better Mousetrap deck

Better Mousetrap
Designer	Kevan
Date	10th February 2001
Players	2+
This is a playable deck - it's finished, tested and ready to play.
To play Dvorak: Draw five cards each and leave the rest as a draw pile. On your turn, draw a card from the draw pile and play one Thing and/or one Action. (See the full rules.)
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Connect the battery to the light bulb, beam the light through a magnifying glass to burn the rope and drop the cage on the mouse. Pit your Heath Robinson mousetrap against those of opponents.

Special Rules

Some Things requires Light, Noise, Electricity or Motion for their effects to be triggered - such inputs are generated by other cards. Any energy generated but unused is lost at the end of the turn.

Card List

Mouse

Thing

When you draw this card, you must put it straight into play (if this card is revealed from your hand, or seen leaving it, you lose the game). If any Contraption makes a Noise, destroy the Mouse at the end of the turn.

Cage

Thing

1 Motion: If the Mouse is in play, it is caught and removed from play. If you used more than three Components to achive this, you win the game.

Stun Gun

Thing

1 Electricity: If the Mouse is in play, it is stunned and removed from play. If you used more than three Components to achive this, you win the game.

Solar Panel

Thing

1 Light: Produce 1 Electricity.

Electric Motor

Thing

1 Electricity: Produce 1 Motion.

Hamster Wheel

Thing

1 Noise: Produce 1 Motion.

Printer

Thing

1 Electricity: Draw a card.

Laser

Thing

1 Electricity: Destroy a Thing.

Battery

Thing

Battery comes into play with three counters on it. Action: Remove a counter to produce 1 Electricity.

Amplifier

Thing

1 Electricity: Produce 2 Electricity. You may only use this ability once per turn.

Light Bulb

Thing

1 Electricity: Produce 1 Light.

Candle

Thing

Action: Produce 1 Light, then either discard a card or destroy Candle.

Dynamite

Thing

If Dynamite is destroyed, destroy all Things in play. 1 Electricity: Destroy Dynamite.

Hidden Cable

Thing

Action: Produce 1 Electricity if an Opponent used any during their most recent turn.

Boxing Glove

Thing

1 Motion: Return a Thing to its controller's hand.

Robot Arm

Thing

1 Electricity: Choose an Opponent. That Opponent chooses a Thing they control. Gain control of that Thing.

Magnifying Glass

Thing

1 Light: View an Opponent's hand, or produce 1 Light.

Klaxon

Thing

1 Electricity: Produce 1 Noise, and each Player discards a card at random.

Microphone

Thing

1 Noise: Produce 1 Electricity.

Horn

Thing

1 Motion: Produce 1 Noise.

Windmill

Thing

Action: Produce 1 Motion.

Radio Transmitter

Thing

1 Electricity: Invoke the ability of any Electrical Thing in play, as if you were its owner. You may use any Noise or Light that it generates.

Rope

Thing

1 Light (from either Candle of Magnifying Glass): Destroy Rope and produce 1 Motion.

Mute

Thing

When you play Mute, give control of it to an Opponent. Any Sound made by that Player's Things is reduced to zero.

Faulty Wiring

Thing

When you play Faulty Wiring, give control of it to an Opponent. Whenever a unit of Electricity is produced by a Thing that Player controls, they must discard a card.

Fog Machine

Thing

1 Electricity: Until your next turn, Light produced by Things is reduced to zero.

Gizmo

Thing

Action: Produce 1 Electricity or Noise or Light or Motion, then destroy Gizmo.

Bowling Ball

Thing

1 Motion: Destroy a Thing at random.

Lightning Strike!

Action

Produce 4 Electricity. At the end of the turn, destroy any Things that used this Electricity directly.

Fizzle

Action

Destroy an Electrical Thing. Produce 1 Noise and 1 Light.

Malfunction

Action

Destroy a Thing that was used during its controller's most recent turn.

Back to the Drawing Board

Action

Destroy any number of Things you control. Draw a card for each Thing destroyed in this fashion.

Drastic Modification

Action

Destroy two Things you control. Search the draw pile for a Thing and put it into play.

Masterplan

Action

Play any number of Things from your hand. Discard the rest of your hand.

Great Minds

Action

Choose an Opponent; he or she may look at your hand and take a card from it. You may then look at their hand and take a card from it.

Static

Action

Produce 1 Electricity.

Thunderclap

Action

Produce 1 Noise.

Moonbeam

Action

Produce 1 Light.

Gravity

Action

Produce 1 Motion.

Cheese

Thing

Action: Draw a card and reveal it to all Players. If it is not the Mouse, discard it.