SQUATTER 
 
The Fun, Sheep-Farming Business Game
 
Squatter is a fun and entertaining simulation game. Based on real life sheep farming. Every game brings new challenges. As in real life, chance plays a part because no one knows when the next drought or flood will strike. Prudent players employ good strategies and careful management to reduce risks and achieve optimum results.
 
You can enjoy playing Squatter with anywhere between 2 to 6 people. Many games (including card games) require a set number of players. Squatter can happily entertain 2 people or just as easily provide for 3, 4, 5 or 6 players.
Young & Old Enjoy Playing
 
A wide range of ages from 10 and upwards can play (younger children can enjoy Squatter but may need assistance). While Squatter is designed to entertain adults, never-the-less, children over a wide range of ages, also enjoy playing. Squatter enables several generations to play on an equal footing. Granddad can battle the elements and fluctuating market prices on his sheep station and granddaughter can manage repairs to the shearing sheds and treating foot rot on her own sheep station.
 
Spend Time Together
 
Squatter is suitable for family entertainment and promotes family values. Time spent around the table over a game of Squatter provides an ideal opportunity for conversations and discussions that might otherwise never happen. In the past, parlour games and card games were popular entertainment for all ages because they provided a wonderful setting for socialising. Squatter is a classic game that has been enjoyed in Australia and around the world for more than 45 years.
 
Squatter creates winners, not losers and one of the great things about Squatter is that everyone stays in the game until the end. This means the game is enjoyable for all the players, right up to the last throw of the dice. Squatter, together with Scrabble, Monopoly, Cluedo & Sorry belongs to the elite group of brand name board games that have stood the test of time. 
 
Squatter provides an informative and entertaining connection with an industry resplendent with social, historic and economic heritage.
 
 
The Game:
Each player selects one of the six sheep stations.
A sheep station is a large sheep grazing property. 
In the game Squatter, the six stations are Coorumbene, Wanbanalong, Emu Plains, Mt Mitchell, Warramboo, Coolibah Creek
 
Place a total of 15 sheep tokens on each station.
Each sheep token represents a pen of 200 sheep. 
At start of play each station is stocked with 15 sheep tokens which represents 3,000 (15 x 200) sheep.
 
Put 3 pens in each of the orange spaces. These spaces represent natural pasture. Each sheep station has five natural pastures.
Orange spaces represent natural, unimproved pasture. Natural pasture consists of native grasses and herbage.
 
Locate the Fire Fighting Equipment Tucker Bag card. 
Shuffle the rest of the Tucker Bag cards and place them face down in the centre section of the playing board. Make sure the Fire Fighting Equipment card is on the top of the stack.
 
Shuffle the Stock Sale cards and place them face down in the centre section of the playing board.
 
Each player starts with $2,000.
(For a much faster moving game you can choose to begin each player with $6,000).
 
Choose a playing token for each player and place it on the Wool Sale (starting) square
 
You are now ready to play the game and have some fun.
 
Remember if you want to improve your pasture you must do so just before you roll the dice.