Designer Ronald Hoekstra Thomas Jansen Patrick Zuidhof Publisher PLAYTHISONE Players 2-4 Playtime 30 mins Suggested Age 10 and up Honors 2014 Fairplay À la carte Winner 2014 Nederlandse Spellenprijs Best Family Game Nominee 2015 Spiel des Jahres Recommended 2015 Spiel der Spiele Hit mit Freunden Recommended Additional Info 139326/ugo http://boardgamegeek.com/forum/1380411/ugo/reviews | In UGO!, players try to found a mighty kingdom. Eagerly they expand their empire with more and more countries – but only the areas that are well maintained by farmers shall ensure that a truly flourishing kingdom will be founded. UGO! puts a unique twist on a trick-taking game. The starting player plays a card from hand, then in clockwise order the other players play a card of the same color, if possible, while playing a different color otherwise. The one who plays the highest card takes all the others. In a tie, the player who follows suit wins. If none of the players followed suit, than the first one wins. The winner places the cards on his kingdom cards, starting from left to right and sorted by color. If you have nothing on your kingdom cards yet, you can sort the cards from left to right in any order. However, if you do have cards already on your kingdom, you must place them on top of the other matching colors (countries). As soon as you have placed the cards and started a new game round, you may not change them anymore. The winner of the game round is also the starting player of the next one.
