Overview
At a glance
Is this game right for my group?
ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.
Easier to teach
High replayability
Highly interactive
Scales well
Light strategy
More strategic control
How it plays
How does it play?
Place double-sided landscape tiles, secretly grow your colored flock, fence a large pasture, and keep hungry wolves out of the woods.
Core mechanisms
Key systems that shape the decisions players make.
Tile Placement
Place tiles to build a shared or personal spatial arrangement.
Enclosure
Surround spaces or pieces to claim territory, capture, or score.
Hand Management
Time and sequence a limited hand of cards to preserve future options.
Player Elimination
Players can be removed from contention before the game ends.
Read the full game description
Wooly Wars, also published as Wooly Bully and La Guerre des Moutons, is a tile-laying family game of hidden colors and ambitious pastures. Each player secretly receives a flock color, then adds square tiles to a shared countryside while matching every touching edge. A tile may connect to several existing tiles, rewarding careful placement with extra draws and more options for later turns. Sheep score only inside a completed field, so expanding a large enclosure promises a strong result but gives opponents more time to interfere or leave it unfinished. Forests introduce wolves that threaten adjacent flocks, while hunters can neutralize them. Players may reveal their color early to gain a scoring bonus, or keep it secret longer to disguise which pasture matters most. The game ends when players stop placing tiles, and each shepherd scores the sheep in their largest safely enclosed field.
