{"id":6053,"date":"2025-12-19T12:00:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T12:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/?p=6053"},"modified":"2025-12-19T12:32:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T12:32:03","slug":"long-dog-and-other-elongated-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/2025\/12\/19\/long-dog-and-other-elongated-animals\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Dog (and other elongated animals)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Long Dog is an absolutely incredible (or at least kind of okay) card game I made for my nieces and nephews the other day, in which you all compete to make the longest dog (or other animal) you can.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/head001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/head001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"165\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6054\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/tail001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/tail001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"165\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-6055\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Rules Of Long Dog<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1.<\/strong> Everyone picks the head of their choice.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2.<\/strong> Shuffle all the tails and all the middles together.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3.<\/strong> Take it in turn to pick cards.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4.<\/strong> Once everyone&#8217;s turned up a tail card and finished their dog, whoever has the longest dog wins.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5.<\/strong> Return to 1.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/longdog001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/longdog001-700x373.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"373\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-6056\" srcset=\"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/longdog001-700x373.jpg 700w, https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/longdog001-300x160.jpg 300w, https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/longdog001-768x409.jpg 768w, https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/longdog001.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can even play it online if you want, by going <a href=\"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/twine\/longdog\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/dngdng.itch.io\/long-dog-and-other-elongated-animals\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> (contains a download version).<\/p>\n<p>__________<\/p>\n<p>Notes:<\/p>\n<p>1.<em> Made during December 2025<\/em><br \/>\n2. <em>Basically the same as the Tail End game I had when I was a kid, where you assembled Loch Ness monsters.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/s-l1600.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/s-l1600-700x458.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"458\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-6057\" srcset=\"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/s-l1600-700x458.png 700w, https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/s-l1600-300x196.png 300w, https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/s-l1600-768x502.png 768w, https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/s-l1600.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>3. <em>But not utterly terrifying in every possible way<\/em><\/p>\n__________<\/br><h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/davidguy\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Support An Accumulation Of Things<\/a><\/h3><i>If you like the things you've read here please consider subscribing to my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/davidguy\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">patreon<\/a> or my <a href=\"https:\/\/ko-fi.com\/davidnguy\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ko-fi<\/a>. <\/br><\/br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/davidguy\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Patreon subscribers<\/a> get not just early access to content and also the occasional gift, but also my eternal gratitude. Which I'm not sure is very useful, but is certainly very real.<\/br><\/br>(<a href=\"https:\/\/ko-fi.com\/davidnguy\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ko-fi contributors<\/a> probably only get the gratitude I'm afraid, but please get in touch if you want more). <\/br><\/br>Thank you!<\/i><\/br><\/br>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long Dog is an absolutely incredible (or at least kind of okay) card game I made for my nieces and nephews the other day, in which you all compete to make the longest dog (or other animal) you can. The Rules Of Long Dog 1. Everyone picks the head of their choice. 2. Shuffle all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1590],"tags":[1592,33,856,1634,1636,1632,1633,1635],"class_list":["post-6053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-games-and-or-card-games","tag-card-games","tag-cats","tag-dogs","tag-hamsters","tag-loch-ness-monster","tag-long-dog","tag-pigs","tag-tail-end"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6053"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6061,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6053\/revisions\/6061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}