Devil Bunny Needs a Ham

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Devil Bunny Needs a Ham

Designer	James Ernest
Publisher	Cheapass Games
Players	2 to 4
Setup time	2 minutes
Playing time	5-10 minutes
Random chance	High
Skills required	Low

Devil Bunny Needs a Ham is a board game by Cheapass Games for 2-4 players. In the game, sous-chefs (represented by the player) try to climb up a building while Devil Bunny attempts to knock them off in the mistaken belief that doing so will get him a ham.

The game board is a rectangular grid representing the side of a building, with the starting space at the bottom, and the goal at the top. There is a dotted line near the top that represents a critical height (see below). Furthermore, there are special spaces on the sides of the buildings that represent "fear" that cannot be moved into (As a show of Cheapass Games' signature humor, these fears included "spiders" and "Wesley Snipes.")

In the basic game, each player controls two sous-chefs; on each turn, the player rolls two six-sided dice. Any role other than a 6 can be used to move one or both sous-chefs up the side of the building, either horizontally, upwards, or on upwards diagonals (a player cannot voluntarily move down the building). If a 6 is rolled, the Devil Bunny token is moved to the highest sous-chef on the board and knocks him off; if there is a sous-chef vertically below the one that was knocked off, the player controlling that one may opt to catch the falling sous-chef, placing the token in the spaces immediately below him. If no player that is able to catch the sous chef offers to help, the chef will crash to the ground. If the chef fell from a height below the marked line on the board, the chef is safe but must restart him climb back from the start. However, if the chef was above this line, the chef is dead, leaving the player with one fewer token to win. The player that manages to have a sous-chef arrive at the top of the building wins.

Variants include ignoring the effects of the fear spaces (which normally cluster the players into the center columns), and using 3 sous-chef tokens for each player.