Muttin Bustin Review

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We review Mutton Bustin, a party game published by 25th Century Games. In Mutton Bustin, players are acting out silly things while the other player is pressing their luck.

I’ve never been to a rodeo before, but I have heard of bull riding. What I haven’t heard of is sheep riding. Is that a thing? Maybe one of our fellow Texan readers can chime in and let me know. Why the question? Because today’s game we are talking about is called Mutton Bustin. The rulebook was unclear if the winner got to also enjoy a nice MTL, Mutton, Lettuce, and Tomato (where the mutton is nice and lean…).

In all seriousness, Mutton Bustin is a party game for 2-4 players published by 25th Century Games.

In Mutton Bustin, each player will compete to see who can stay on the back of a bucking sheep (played by everyone else) the longest.

Each round, one player will take on the role of the rider, while the rest of the players are the sheep. The rider must work their way around the track by rolling a six-sided die. If they roll a number equal to or higher than the next number on the track, they can advance their rider.

Meanwhile, the sheep players are each rolling their 6-sided die. Their die has a sheep face on one side and a blank on the rest. When they roll a sheep, they must perform/say the action on their card, then the shared card, and then they get to place their die in the sheep pen on the board.

The trick is all this is happening in real time, and if the sheep players are able to place all 6 of their dice before the rider either finishes their track, or decides to stop, the rider is bucked off and scores no points. However, if the rider makes it to the end of the track, they earn 10 points, if they decide to call it quits ahead of time, they score points equal to the highest score value they passed.

Then, everyone passes their role clockwise and a new turn begins. After all players have had a chance to be the rider, new action cards are dealt out and a new round begins. After two rounds,