Well, Pandasaurus has had a number of new summer releases, and two of them share names with classic games.   Daryl Andrews is back to his old tricks, and he has reworked both of these games into new versions.

Gulo Gulo

• Designers: Wolfgang Kramer, Hans Raggan, Daryl Andrews, Jurgen P. Grunau 
• Publisher: Pandasaurus
• Players: 2-6
• Age: 5+
• Time: 20-30 mins
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• Played with review copy provided by publisher

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.

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Golfie

• Designer: Jimmy Dorion 
• Publisher: Unigoat
• Players: 1-8
• Age: 8+
• Time: 25 minutes
• Played with review copy provided by publisher

Welcome to the course! In this golf-inspired board game, each player must take action on the 9 cards on his or her course in order to score as few points as possible. For a 9-hole, the game is played in 28 actions. Each action is determined by the 28 shuffled action cards.

May the best golfer win! 

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Mountain Goats: Legacy

• Designers: Alex Cutler, Michael Mihealsick, Stefan Risthaus  
• Publisher: Allplay
• Players: 2-5
• Age: 7+
• Time: 20-45 minutes
• Played with review copy provided by publisher

Each turn, roll and combine dice to race up the mountain. Get to the top to score, but don’t get knocked off! If you roll the goat symbol, activate new abilities — powers that rotate every mission. As your story progresses, you’ll unlock even more powerful abilities and face tougher challenges. The mountain itself might even transform beneath your feet.

Mountain Goats: Legacy combines dice rolling/combining and events into a longer version of Mountain Goats. But, after the first session, more and more hazards and gameplay tweaks show up. The dice now have a goat symbol — when rolled, you’ll get to use one of the unlocked player powers. These can change with every session! There’s also a new system called “Courage” that greatly affects your ability to mitigate luck and refine your dice rolls.

This game can be played as either a single session or a legacy game. As a legacy game, it is fully replayable and resettable. You will not be asked to destroy or modify components. The first session can also be combined with the original Mountain Goats game.

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3 Witches

• Designer: Corey Young 
• Publisher: Allplay
• Players: 3
• Age: 10+
• Time: 20 minutes
• Played with review copy provided by publisher

3 Witches is a must-follow, trick-taking game with no trump suit. At the start of each round, players bid on how many tricks they can win (out of five). The highest bidder becomes the Lead Witch, and their opponents play together on a team as Lesser Witches. The Lead Witch plays two cards (one face down), while the two Lesser Witches combine one card each. Two ingredients of the same rank or suit get added together, leading to tricky situations! If the Lead Witch wins exactly the number of tricks that they bid, they receive two fate tokens at the end of the round; if not, each Lesser Witch receives one fate token. The first player to collect five fate tokens wins.

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