Herd Mentality

Could you predict what the majority of your family and friends would say:

• the best ice-cream flavour was? or
• the most common thing found on a beach? or
• which body part they’d prefer to be stung by a wasp?

This prediction mechanic is the basis of Herd Mentality from Big Potato games, and it has to be said it is surprisingly a lot of fun. It’s a really straightforward concept that’s immediate to grasp.

If there’s a majority answer, then each of those players receive a cow token. The first to collect eight tokens wins the game.

If a single player writes an answer that doesn’t match anyone else’s then they take ownership of a squeezy soft pink cow. Whilst holding the pink cow that player cannot win the game (even if they collect eight tokens first), until another player provides a unique answer, and the ownership is transferred.

mooing is encouraged

It’s a neat additional rule that you hope hinders early leaders in the game as they regrettably provide a unique answer.

The other fun addition is that the rules encourage “moo”-ing at players who are taking far too long to write their answer down. This provides a joyous periodic soundtrack as the tardy straggler invariably fluffs their answer to silence the bovine chorus. It’s also guaranteed to unsettle others and get your bill delivered quickly if playing at the pub or in a restaurant.