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• Nov. 22, 2005 - Gulo Gulo Game Review - A family favorite
For
your perusal I will be presenting games that my family enjoys
playing. A game for the younger crowd, a more theme oriented boardgame,
and an abstact that anyone of any age can play. Today we will start
with the kids game.
Gulo Gulo
Weird name for a game I know. Each player is a Gulo, or wolverine,
trying to rescue a baby Gulo who got caught by the swamp vulture while
trying to steal vulture eggs.. 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. The components are quality wooden bits. The vulture eggs
are wooden eggs of various sizes and colors, the 'alarm' is a wooden
dowel that is weighted to fall over, and the next is a fairly heavy
wooden bowl. The playing board is an everchanging set of tiles that
determine the choice of egg that the Gulo must try to remove to rescue
the junior gulo. If you set of the alarm you must go back a ways and
try again next time. This is one of the few games that parents can try
as hard as they want to win, but the kids will probably beat you.
Though the game looks like only a dexterity game it does have some
strategy involved, and parents you will need the strategy to beat small
nimble fingers. My 3 year old plays this very well, but we do need to
sometimes remind her of some of the rules. Even my 11 year old will
play this anytime we suggest it.
Stay
tuned for a review of Torres, a unique castle building game. And Blokus
a colorful abstract that may remind you of tetris, but alot more fun.
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