If It Fits Card Game

About this product

Build the box. Claim it with cats. Keep your rivals out.

A playful card-placement game of cats, boxes and clever competition.

Build connected cardboard boxes, fill them with cat toys and position your cats carefully to score the best spaces before your opponents take over.

Product Description

Cats will squeeze themselves into almost anything, and in If It Fits, that instinct becomes the whole game.

Players build a growing arrangement of cardboard boxes by placing cards together so their open sides and walls create different spaces. Once a box starts taking shape, you can place your cats into it and begin competing for control. The player with the most cats in a box gets to score it at the end of the game.

The boxes are filled with cat toys that can earn you points, but not everything inside is helpful. Water spray bottles count against you, while completing a fully closed box doubles both its positive and negative points. That makes every placement matter. 

Your rivals can make things even messier. Other players may compete for the same boxes, and the black cat Princess can replace another cat and disrupt a valuable scoring position. You can even choose to play a sleeping cat instead of drawing and placing a normal cardboard card, giving you another way to protect a box. 

Build smart, choose your boxes carefully and make sure your cats end up sitting in the most rewarding spots.

View the If It Fits Rulebook (PDF)

Why You’ll Love It

• Build the boxes as you play: Connect cardboard cards to create an ever-changing layout of cat-sized spaces.
• Compete for control: The player with the most cats in a box gets to score it.
• Cat toys earn points: Build around valuable toy icons to make your boxes more rewarding.
• Watch out for spray bottles: These count as negative points when the box is scored.
• Closed boxes can be lucrative: Fully enclosed boxes double both their positive and negative points.
• Plenty of interaction: Other players can move into contested boxes and challenge your majority.
• Princess causes trouble: The black cat can replace another cat and upset an opponent’s plans.
• Advanced rules included: The rulebook also provides a more challenging variant once everyone knows the game. 

Quick Details

• Publisher: Jolly Dutch
• Designer: Adrie Drent
• Artist: Gustavo Furstenau
• Players: 2–5
• Age: 10+
• Play time: 30 minutes
• Game type: Competitive card-placement game
• Rules: Dutch and English
• Contents: 110 cards

Good to Know

• Cats are placed across two cardboard cards joined along their long sides. 
• A closed box has no open sides remaining.
• If several players have cats in the same box, the player with the most cats scores it; tied players receive the full points.
• Sleeping cats can occupy a box but do not score unless a normal cat is later added to that box. 
• Jolly Dutch games use biodegradable plastic, biodegradable ink and glue, FSC-certified materials, European production and CO₂ compensation for transport.