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2019 Ranked #22,916

Ulanga

Players sail steamboats and deliver goods along a constructed river in a card game, trying to finish with the most points. Restriction cards can disrupt movement, while being unable to act costs anchors and can end the game.

Nautical Point to Point Movement Hand Management Continents: Africa

Players

2-4

Play time

20-40 min

Age

8+

Complexity

1.4/5

Rating

5.08

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.7/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 4.0/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.7/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.0/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

Deliver the goods to the villages nearby the Ulanga River. Sail the steamboats that go down the river everyday avoiding the risks of the Eastern Africa.

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Deliver the goods to the villages nearby the Ulanga River. Sail the steamboats that go down the river everyday avoiding the risks of the Eastern Africa. Before starting, players must create a river with all river tiles. The game is played by turns. Each player must play a Movement (At the end of the movement, if any player has a Port card matching the port the boat just stop in, they may discard that card to draw a Scoring 2 points) or Restriction card in order to disturb another player's movement (If a player cannot play any card, they must flip one of their Anchor tokens over, losing 3 points). The game ends when a player loses their 3 anchors or the last Scoring token is drawn. The player with the most points is the winner. -description from publisher

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Play and group

Players
2–4
Best with
2–4
Play time
20–40 min
Age
8+
Complexity
1.4/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
Víktor Bautista i Roca

Artists

1
Amelia Sales

Publishers

1
GDM Games

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