Overview

Devil Bunny Needs a Ham is a light strategy and dice-rolling game for 2-6 players by Cheapass Games. Players control sous-chefs trying to climb up the side of a tall building while Devil Bunny tries to knock them off. The game blends simple roll-and-move mechanics with a humorous push-your-luck element as players race to the top while avoiding the threat of falling.

Components

• 1 building board with a grid of climbing spaces and a “death line” marked partway up
• 1 Devil Bunny token
• Player sous-chef pawns (2 per player)
• 2 six-sided dice

Setup

1. Place the building board in the center of the table.
2. Each player places their two sous-chef pawns at the bottom of the building.
3. Place the Devil Bunny token off the board.
4. Determine a starting player.

Turn Structure

On your turn:

1. Roll two six-sided dice.
2. Use each die result to move your sous-chefs (one die per chef, or both dice for one chef).
3. If either die shows a 6, Devil Bunny activates.

Actions

Moving Sous-Chefs

• Any die result other than a 6 can be used to move one sous-chef up the building. Movement can be horizontal or diagonal upward – you cannot voluntarily move downward.
• You may split the dice between your two sous-chefs or apply both to one.

Devil Bunny Attack

• When a 6 is rolled, the Devil Bunny token moves to the highest sous-chef on the entire board and knocks that chef off.
• If there is another sous-chef directly below the falling chef, that chef’s owner catches the falling chef and places the token in the space immediately below the catcher.
• If no one can catch the falling chef, the chef crashes to the ground.

Falling Consequences

• If the fallen chef was below the marked death line on the board, the chef is safe but must restart the climb from the bottom.
• If the fallen chef was above the death line, the chef is dead and removed from the game permanently.

Scoring / Victory Conditions

Players earn points based on the finishing order of their sous-chefs reaching the top of the building. The scoring is weighted so that having second and third-place chefs can beat having a first-place chef but a dead (non-scoring) second chef. The player with the highest total score across both their chefs wins.

Special Rules & Edge Cases

• A player who loses both chefs (both dead) is eliminated from the game.
• When multiple chefs occupy the same height, the active player may choose which is considered “highest” for Devil Bunny targeting.
• Chefs that are caught after being knocked off do not lose their position – they land just below the catching chef.
• The death line creates a strategic tension: climbing higher is riskier because a fall from above the line is fatal.

Player Reference

Turn: Roll 2d6 → Move chefs upward (horizontal or diagonal) → Resolve any 6s (Devil Bunny attacks)

Devil Bunny: On a 6, knocks the highest chef off the building

Falling: Below death line = restart from bottom; Above death line = chef is dead

Catching: A chef directly below catches the falling chef

Win: Highest total score from finishing positions of both chefs