Dodo Review

Can you save the wibbly wobbly egg? Find out when you play the cooperative board game Dodo. Once you get the game board set up, which includes a 3-D mountain with cliff edges and outcrops, take turns rolling the die, finding building materials, and building. You’re trying to build bridges so that the Dodo bird’s egg can safely roll down the mountain. 

Once you roll the die, you turn over a tile. Does the tile match the building material on the die? If yes, place the tile on an empty storage space on the bridge that is currently being built. If the tile shows a different building material, you turn it over and end your turn. If the tile reveals a member of the Hagulaminapitopasi tribe, it becomes a wild card that you can immediately place on the next free storage space. 

If you filled all the storage spaces on a bridge, put its tiles aside, flip over the bridge, and carefully place it on the mountain. And if you filled all the storage spaces at the dock, put its tiles aside and place the boat on the dock to catch the egg. Used tiles can be thrown into the crevice slot on the mountain top, where they’ll land in the cave, which is pretty cool. 

If you’ve built six bridges, moored the boat on the dock, and gotten the egg rolled into the boat, everybody wins. But if the egg falls off the mountain, everybody loses, and you’ve got to try again. 

Advanced and Expert variants give players different challenges once they’ve mastered the base game.

You can play Dodo with two to four players ages 6 and up. The game comes with a mountain, a dodo, an egg, six bridges, one cliff edge, a boat, 58 building material tiles, a die, a rulebook, and a construction leaflet.