June 25th, 2005 |
After a day spent hanging out with Karla's dad and his girlfriend, and a late afternoon watching some extreme croquet and kielbasa-eating at Dan's old apartment, we came to our hot, muggy, inadequately A.C.-ed apartment and sweated through a game of Gulo Gulo.
Gulo Gulo |
Results | |||
Player | Score | Place | First Time? |
Mark | Saved the Gulo Cub | 1 | * |
Kaveh | 5 back | 2 (Tie) | |
Mike | 5 back | 2 (Tie) | |
Karla | 6 back | 4 (Tie) | |
Dan | 6 back | 4 (Tie) | |
Annie | 10 back | 6 |
Notes: Marka recognized this game as the one I played with Arman back at the Memorial Tree ceremony, and he quickly got into it. Dan started off by doing the finger-licking and blowing thing again until he stopped himself after a couple turns.
Karla had some incredibly poor luck, as it seemed that some rather innocuous eggs were spilling the egg alarm. In fact, the whole game was like that. One egg looked easy, it'd be plucked at, and the egg alarm would smack the table to the crazed shouts of "Ooohhh!"
Karla and Annie were the main culprits, which helped Mark catch up to the leaders by the end. I tried to manipulate the tiles so that I'd be the first on the last one, but it didn't work out that way. Mark had flipped over the 3rd one from the end (red) and made it. Then, Dan picked an egg and was a little behind us. He had knocked the egg alarm over the previous turn (which had really saved my ass), so he was too far behind to bother flipping another tile. I flipped the second to last egg (yellow) and made it. Then Kaveh flipped over the last tile and groaned as another red showed up, meaning that he'd have to stop two spots from the end. Karla and Annie were both way behind and made moves to catch up bit.
Mark was therefore the first to the final red. Dan joined me on the yellow. I managed to get a red, as did Kaveh. Karla was too far behind to go for a red so she grabbed a yellow. Annie was the crux of the game, as it turned out. There was a yellow that looked easy to grab, but as she pulled it out, there was just enough leverage taken out to knock the egg alarm to the ground. We all groaned in dismay as it looked like Mark would have a cakewalk - a full egg basket and he was on the last tile.
Well, it was a cakewalk, but Mark did have to go through all 5 of the hidden tiles. The eggs were all easy to grab, as he pretty much just had to grab one of each, and the purple egg was on the top, too.
We congratulated Mark and spent the next hour trying to stump Kaveh's spooky 20 questions game, which we only fooled with the words "butthole" and "testicle." To be fair, though, I thought we answered a few questions wrong, and the vocabulary of the computer guessed things that were pretty close (like "womb" for "butthole").