In Simon's Cat: Dinner Date, the deck is composed of pictures with birds and special "Simon's Cat" cards. Players draw cards and lay them in a row. The first player to find the right bird and point to it gathers all the challenge cards and keeps them. Players guessing incorrectly return a card to the deck. When a special Simon's Cat card comes up, the first player to shout "Simon's Cat!" wins the card for extra points at the end of the game.

The game stops when all the cards in the deck have been used. The player with the most points wins.