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Keep the line clean.

Border Line Crazy!

A cooperative mowing game

2–6 players15–20 minAges 8+Co-op

There's a strip of forest cut along the US–Canada border called "the slash." Your crew clears it every year. The Skookum — big, hairy, and older than the border itself — undoes your work every chance he gets. Mow all ten sectors before he wears your team out.

Watch

See the Skookum in action

Prefer paper? The full rulebook fits on one matchbook-size fold-out — read it in about three minutes.
How it plays

Your turn, four beats

Play action cards

Play up to three: put Work points on a job, Move a worker down the line, or Swap two workers' positions.

Resolve & mow

Enough Work clears a Situation. Get a Mower onto a cleared sector to mow it — mowed sectors are safe from the Skookum forever.

Draw back up

Refill your hand to five Action Cards. Plan out loud — you're all on the same crew.

Roll the Chaos Die

The d12 sends the Skookum somewhere on the line. Whatever you had going there? He has opinions about it.

Photo: the crew mid-game — ideally arguing about the Chaos Die
Gameplay photo slot

In the box

  • Sector Cards (Overgrown / Mowed) 12
  • Situation Cards 24
  • Action Cards 48
  • Workers (2 Mowers, Logger, Spotter) 4
  • Skookum Standee 1
  • Chaos Die d12

How you win

Every sector you mow is one fewer place the Skookum can annoy you. Flip all ten Sector Cards to their Mowed side and everyone — except the Skookum — wins together.

Feeling brave?

The Skookum never sleeps

He found your coffee. Play with all twelve sectors.

Double trouble

Roll the Chaos Die twice each turn. We don't know what you did, but someone really made him mad.

Reckless mode

Both challenge rules at once. Good luck — you're going to need it.

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