Dodo
Dodo Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Object of the Game and Course of Play
The egg must not fall down! Can you build all the bridges and the boat?
You win if you build the bridges in time so that the egg rolls safely into the boat. You start building "Bridge 1" at the top of the mountain. As soon as the first bridge is ready, you build the second, then the third, and so on, until you have built the sixth bridge and finally the boat.
Game Preparation
Contents: 1 Mountain (1 base plate, 3 mountain walls, 1 mountain peak with Dodo holder, 3 base plate holders, 14 composite rock outcrops), 1 dodo with nest, 1 wobbly egg, 1 rock edge, 6 bridges, 1 boat, 58 construction tiles (eight each: bamboo tubes, leaf, hammer, wooden plank, nails, rope; 10 Hagulaminapitopasi tribe jokers), 1 dice with stickers.
- A. Place the Mountain in the middle of the table.
- B. Place the six bridges with their brown backs facing up on a pile. Pay attention to the ascending sequence of numbers: Bridge 1 is at the top, bridge 6 at the bottom.
- C. Place the boat near its mooring.
- D. Shuffle the 58 tiles face down (with the back side up) and lay them out evenly around the Mountain.
- E. Lay the wobbly egg in the nest.
- F. Sit around the Mountain so that you can easily reach all mountain faces, bridges and construction tiles.
The youngest player receives the die. They carefully tip the dodo forward, so that the bird looks down the mountain and the egg can roll away. Hurry up, the egg is rolling! Quickly build the bridges...
Player Turn Quick Guide
On your turn:
- Roll the dice - turn up a single tile to try to match the dice result.
- If the tile matches the dice result, place the tile on the bridge spaces.
- Pass the dice to the next player.
- Next player rolls the dice - turns up a single tile to try to match the dice result.
- If you fail to match the dice result, pass the dice to the next player.
- Continue dice rolling and material matching until a bridge is complete with material spaces filled, then construct and place the bridge on the mountain or complete the boat harbour.
Rules in Detail
- Roll the dice once. Check revealed building material.
- Find building materials: select a tile on the table. If the revealed tile shows the same material as the dice, put the tile on a free space of the Bridge that is about to be built. If not, pass the dice to the next player.
- When all bridges have already been built, the boat berth is next. Roll the dice and if you reveal the matching dice material you place it on a free storage space near the boat's mooring.
- Did you uncover a member of the Hagulaminapitopasi tribe? Great, that's a joker, you can immediately place it on a free bridge storage space, matching the material you rolled.
- If the revealed tile shows another material other than shown on the dice, return the tile face down. Pass the dice to the next player. Should the egg ever stop rolling, nudge the egg once with your finger so that it continues to roll before you continue.
- Construction action: Are all storage fields on the bridge complete? Put the used tiles to construct the bridge to the side and flip the completed bridge over. Plug the bridge carefully onto the mountain, ensuring it fits into the bridge slots and rests on the mountain ledges. Throw the used tokens into the top mountain ravine. The tiles end up in the cave and are no longer needed in this game.
- Are all storage fields of the Berth occupied? Put the used tiles to the side and dock the boat immediately to the berth.
- Throw the used tokens into the top mountain ravine. The tiles end up in the cave and are no longer needed in this game.
- Quickly pass the dice to the next player clockwise. Now it is the next player's turn.
Tribe Wisdom: Help Each Other!
Players can give clues to correct tiles found on previous turns. While a player is building a bridge, players can insert the used tiles into the Mountain ravine. This saves valuable time.
End of Game
To win: Have you built all six bridges, with the boat on the berth so the egg now rolls from the sixth bridge into the boat? You made it! The wobbly egg is saved. With the boat you bring the egg and the Dodo to the safe neighboring island. The Tribe are proud of you and celebrate with a big Dodo party!
Lose? Oh no! The egg fell off the mountain? You don't all have bridges or Berth built in time for the boat, or the bridges collapsed from poor construction. Then unfortunately the game is lost! Try again.
Advanced Variant
Do you want to make the game more difficult? Remove some or all of the joker tiles from the game.
Professional Version
A bigger Dodo challenge? No problem! From now on you will also play with the Skull storage spaces. For each bridge (except the first) and for the boat you have to find more material to fill the extra skull locations using the dice results.
Mountain Problems: Fixes
If the egg "slips" out of the nest too quickly at the start of the game, check the following:
- Is the mountain and your table level?
- Slightly press down the mountain top corner opposite the nest opening.