Don't say anything about Pulok
“ Say nothing about Pulok ” is a placement game for 2 to 5 players in which it is important to use letter cards to create the sentence “Say nothing about Pulok” or parts of it as “valuable pieces”. The game was first published in 1928 and experienced an unusually rapid distribution for the time. In 1954 it was reissued by Otto Maier Verlag Ravensburg . Another new edition with a different design and slightly different equipment (up to 4 players) appeared in 1978.
Surname
The title of the game is a nonsense sentence , it was about building a sentence from 15 different letters.
Course of the game
At the beginning of the game, the 180 letter cards in six colors (each letter is available twice) with the 10 "Pulok" cards - instead of a letter, a face - that can be used as jokers, are laid out face down in the middle of the table. A card is placed face up on a game plate. Each player receives a game board with a screen on which the sentence “Don't say anything about Pulok” is written six times. In addition, each player receives a certain number of cards from the middle. The number depends on the game variant. These cards are laid out on the game board.
An attempt is made to get missing cards by exchanging them. Exchange process: If the card exposed on the game plate fits, it is taken and a separate card is laid out face up. If it doesn't match, the face-up card on the game plate is turned over and placed face down on it. A face-down card can be taken from the middle for this. It is handled in exactly the same way: either exchanged for your own card or laid out openly on the game plate. Then it is the next player's turn.
Game objective
There are different variants with different degrees of difficulty and time expenditure:
- to form the sentence "Say nothing about Pulok" one to three times, with any color, word for word or sentence by the same colors,
- To form valuables, these consist of at least three letters adjacent to one another, vertically or horizontally. Points are awarded for valuables, depending on the level of difficulty. One letter can be counted for several pieces of value (star shape).
The game is over when a player has reached the goal or all letters are used up.
Game requirements
It is important to cleverly add your own letters. The other players have to be considered - it does not make sense to collect the same color as you or to lay out the cards that you may need. The letters on the play plate must also be observed so that one does not wait for a letter that has already been placed there.
variants
There was also a “Children's Pulok” and a “ Crossword Pulok”.
swell
- ↑ BoardGameGeek: Don't say anything about Pulok . Retrieved May 5, 2010
- ↑ Erwin Glonnegger : The games book . Drei Magier Verlag, Uehlfeld 2000. ISBN 3980679209 (pp. 94-95).