Review
Poo Poo Pets
Poo Poo Pets is a real-time dice game with a huge whistling plastic poo, which is at least honest about its main selling point. Its lovely dice and a firm application of house rules can turn it into a decent Yahtzee-like game for small children.
- Published
- 2021
- Designer
- Sophia Wagner
- Publisher
- Pegasus Spiele, Hobby Japan, SD Games
- Players
- 1–4
- Playing time
- 25 min
Poo Poo Pets feels like Jungle Speed fell into a box of dice and concluded that what it lacked was a giant whistling poo. It certainly makes an impression on the table. So does a lava lamp.
The premise is real-time: players roll dice quickly, hunting for the combinations they need, in a system that feels like an attempt to cram Project Elite's urgency into a children's comedy sketch. There is no especially elegant tactical core here; the point is haste, noise, and everybody doing something at once.
It certainly makes an impression on the table.
EdgyJellyfish
Player interaction reaches its peak when it is time to hit the plastic poo and set off its whistle, ensuring that nobody in the next room can forget what is being played. With a healthy dose of “this is how we play it” and some rules of my own, I made it simpler: a respectable Yahtzee clone in which children roll, keep dice, and get something ridiculous to thump.
The dice are genuinely lovely, which is the box's most useful virtue. For small children delighted to hit a whistling plastic poo, it is adequate holiday company; at least until the game's centrepiece disappears and peace finally breaks out.
For small children delighted to hit a whistling plastic poo, it is adequate holiday company; at least until the game's centrepiece disappears and peace finally breaks out.
EdgyJellyfish
Source: BoardGameGeek
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