In Cat in the Box: Deluxe Edition you'll hypothesize how many tricks you will win, and record your bid. Place tokens on the community research board as you play your hand, and connect large groups of tokens to score even more points. Plan your tricks carefully as you cannot claim the color of a card with the same number that has already been declared. Doing so would be "paw"sitively "cat"astrophic as you'd have created a paradox (note, this could have been written, "pair-o'-dogs")!