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Game Entry

Gulo Gulo

(2003)
User Rating: 7.0 / 10 (1087 Ratings)
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GameID: 6351
Rank: 277
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Information

Designed By: Hans Raggan
Jürgen P. Grunau
Wolfgang Kramer
Published By: Rio Grande Games
Zoch Verlag
Mfg suggested # of Players: 2 - 6 players
User suggested # of Players:
Best with 3, 4 players
Recommended with 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 players
(9 voters) [poll]
Playing Time: 20 Minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages: 5 and up
User Suggested Ages: 3 and up
(8 voters) [poll]
Language Dependence: No necessary in-game text
(5 voters) [poll]
Category: Action/Dexterity
Children's Game
Humor
Mechanics: Tile Placement
Modular Board
Other Names: N/A

Description

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Each player is a Gulo, or wolverine, trying to rescue a baby Gulo who got caught by the swamp vulture whose eggs it was trying to steal. Unfortunately for the baby Gulo, all the adult Gulos are distracted by all the delicious swamp vulture eggs, and it has to wait very, very patiently as the adults constantly trip the very, very sensitive "egg alarm" rigged by the vulture to scare off the pesky Gulos.

There is a nice wooden bowl filled with multicolored swamp vulture eggs of various sizes, into which a long thin dowel with another egg at one end is inserted, like a flagpole. As you can imagine, lots of M&M Peanut-shaped wooden bits banging around together in a polished wooden bowl makes it rather difficult to keep a thin dowel with weight at the top balanced...

The essential mechanic of the game is to try to pull an egg of a particular color and move to a tile of that color on the linear path toward the bowl, and the little stack of tiles hiding the baby Gulo tile. If you set off the alarm, or knock any eggs out of the bowl, your Gulo is sent back to the previous tile of the attempted color. If there's no such tile, then back to the start he goes!

From a purely objective standpoint, this is among Wolfgang Kramer's finest efforts, and this summarist highly advises playing it while intoxicated. (Please drink responsibly.)*

(*) Note that when overeager gamers have accidentaly broken the egg alarm shaft, a common disposable wooden/bamboo kitchen skewer may be used to replace it.

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Statistics

User Rank: 277
Num Ratings: 1087
Average Rating: 7.03
Standard Deviation: 1.13
Num Views: 48823
GeekBuddy Analysis: Analyze
Similarly Rated: View
Avg. Game Weight: 1.08 moreinfo
Personal Comments: 674
Users Owning: 1188
Users Wanting: 153
Users Trading: 11
Has Parts For Trade: 0
Want Parts In Trade: 2
Price History: View
Total Plays: 5069
Plays This Month: 19

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