
2025
From BoardGameGeek
Pound of Hounds is a comedic and cunning, canine themed dedicated deck, strategic party game with over 50 unique hand-drawn doggo's to Draw from. Strategise, collect cards and use your abilities to gather your dogs and finally "claim your Pound of Hounds over friend and foes alike". Throughout the game players will discard cards from their hand to use the cards ability (including picking up more cards, stealing cards from other players hand, discarding other players hands, swapping hands, ect..) or trade in 3 cards of the same class (indicated by the cards colour and icon in the top left corner) for an Alpha card the same class. To win the game players must collect either 3,5 or 7 Alpha cards depending on the number of players in the game. -description from the publisher
Pound of Hounds has 3 videos from 2 creators: 2 how-to-play guides and 1 other video. They date from November 2025.
If you like it, try UNO, Quartz, 5211 or Exploding Kittens, which share several of its mechanics.
2015Sérgio Halaban, André Zatz
3 - 5 players45 - 60 minLight weight
2019Tsuyoshi Hashiguchi (はしぐち つよし)
2 - 5 players20 - 30 minLight weight
2015Matthew Inman, Elan Lee, Shane Small
2 - 5 players15 minLight weight
From BoardGameGeek:
Pound of Hounds is a comedic and cunning, canine themed dedicated deck, strategic party game with over 50 unique hand-drawn doggo's to Draw from. Strategise, collect cards and use your abilities to gather your dogs and finally "claim your Pound of Hounds over friend and foes alike". Throughout the game players will discard cards from their hand to use the cards ability (including picking up more cards, stealing cards from other players hand, discarding other players hands, swapping hands, ect..) or trade in 3 cards of the same class (indicated by the cards colour and icon in the top left corner) for an Alpha card the same class. To win the game players must collect either 3,5 or 7 Alpha cards depending on the number of players in the game. -description from the publisher
Publisher
Classy Walrus Games
Categories
Mechanics