General FAQCulica - General Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Are there always enough pegs to cover the cube?
Culica comes with 28 red, 28 yellow, 14 green and 14 blue pegs. Total pegs: 84. Slots in the Culica: 54
The only time you cannot completely cover a cube is for games where each player has their own colour *and* a 3 player game is played. In that case, one of the players (who plays with green or blue pegs) may be 4 pegs short. That's pretty unlikely to happen in real games, but not impossible!
The solution is simple, if the third player has green pegs, he can then use blue pegs to finish the game. So in effect the third player has green *and* blue pegs (28 pegs in total) which matches the 28 pegs for red and 28 pegs for yellow.
Two player and four player games can cover the cube with a peg each to spare.
How many pegs of each colour come with Culica?
The Culica comes with 84 pegs in total. There are 28 red pegs, 28 yellow pegs, 14 green and 14 blue pegs.
The reason there are more red and yellow pegs is that if there are two players you can cover the whole Culica (which has 54 slots) with red and yellow pegs in a 2 player game.
With four players you can cover the Culica with equal numbers of the available red, yellow, green and blue pegs.
Why aren't the pegs stored in the cube?
The reason is that all 84 pegs that come with the Culica don't fit in, and also the cube has to be robust, having a lid would risk weakening it.
Is there any assembly before playing?
There is no assembly required at all, the Cube and pegs are ready for play, you will be playing in seconds after opening the box for the first time!
Culica is fully formed right out of the box!
The cube is fully formed, no construction required. The pegs loose and fully formed in a cotton bag in the box, there's no twisting them off a plastic frame, or anyting like that.
There are no batteries either - as the Culica does not run on batteries, it does not need any power.
Why are there four colours of pegs?
Why are there four colours of pegs?
This is because having four colours offers the most creative ways of playing games. Fewer pegs colours mean that games are less rich. But more pegs colours can make some games rules fiddly and make games too complicated. Four colours is the sweet spot between richness of play and simplicity of the rules. Colours of pegs in Culica is in some ways similar to suits in playing cards. A pack of playing cards has four suits: hearts, spades, diamonds and clubs. Having four suits leads to the riches playing cards games, which is why playing cards with fewer than four, or more than four suits are rare.
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