Cat box is played with cards divided into quadrants each showing an empty box or one of five cats in a box players take turns playing these cards to a shared display overlapping previous cards by one or two quadrants each player is assigned a secret identity if you are a cat you want as many of your cats showing at the end of the game as possible and as large a group of them as possible but if you are the chihuahua you want empty boxes and groups of exactly three catsr r r r pla