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Hand & hoard
Keep 7 cards in hand and a face-down hoard (starts at 4, can grow). Opponents attack that pile — a Trap ends their attack cold.
Luke’s original hand-drawn concept sheet (Scan 2) — Guardian Angel, Death, Tink’s Gaze, Swap, Pass the Trash & more
Finished Radar art — still rooted in Luke’s original drawings
Hand-drawn by our son, Lukas
Snatch the Cat! was created by Lukas (Luke) Grau — our son, now 13 years old. It started as a passion project when he got tired of playing the same card games over and over. He researched games like UNO, Pokémon, and War, then invented something of his own starring the family cats Radar and Tink.
Luke hand-drew the original concept art for every card type — Radars, Attacks, Traps, the Snatcher, Guardian Angel, Tink’s Gaze, and more — on paper first (see his scanned concept sheet at left). Those sketches weren’t just a starting doodle: they became the creative foundation for the polished cards you see today. The finished deck still follows Luke’s original ideas, characters, and humor.
He has been part of every step of the creation process: inventing the rules, playtesting and balancing, choosing art directions, naming cards, and deciding what stayed in the deck. This is his game — the family helped polish and prepare it for print, but Luke led the design.
Before this public rollout, Luke presented Snatch the Cat! to fellow students,
his school, and our family — years of real playtests, not a game that only
lived on a computer screen.
Today it’s a full 108-card deck with a custom card back and an accordion rules sheet — ready for game nights everywhere, still true to the kid who drew it at the kitchen table.
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Idea
Luke wants a faster, sneakier game of his own — starring Radar & Tink.
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Hand-drawn art
Original concept sheets in pencil and color — the DNA of today’s cards.
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Play & present
Classmates, school, and family playtest for years. Rules get sharper.
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Public deck
108 cards, polished art from his concepts, rules sheet, ready to share.