- BGG rating
- 7.2
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- 1 player
- 20 min
- 8+
- Complexity 2.0/5
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Ugly Gryphon Inn: The Little Beak Guesthouse is an expansion for Ugly Gryphon Inn released in 2021 for 1 player, 20 minutes per game, and ages 8 and up. It was designed by Scott Almes and its main mechanics are Solo / Solitaire Game.
About the game
It’s the busy season at the Ugly Gryphon Inn! The bar is crowded, the inn is rapidly filling up, and you are going to have to take drastic measures – but opening up the adjacent guesthouse. The Little Beak, the quaint little guesthouse next to the Inn, is technically liveable and has been free of pyro-rats for several days now. Might as well open it up and collect a few extra coins! When selecting a patron at the bar to go to to sleep, you may now add that patron to the Little Beak guesthouse instead of the inn. When a patron is added to the guesthouse, the guesthouse is checked for irks from the top down. The regular inn is not checked. To win, The Little Beak must have 3 patrons at the end of the game. However, there is a twist. The guesthouse can only have, at most, one of each quirk (noise, fight, smell) in the guesthouse.
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- Banana Games
- Button Shy
Questions and answers
Ugly Gryphon Inn: The Little Beak Guesthouse supports 1 player according to the catalogue. This is the publisher’s listed player count, so the game is designed for exactly that number of participants. Variants for other group sizes, if any, are described in the rulebook of your edition, so check it before setting up a different configuration.
The listed playing time for Ugly Gryphon Inn: The Little Beak Guesthouse is 20 minutes. This is the publisher’s estimate for a full game. The actual duration depends on the group, the player count and familiarity with the rules: first sessions usually run longer, while experienced groups often finish faster. Setup and teaching time are not included in this estimate.
The catalogue lists Ugly Gryphon Inn: The Little Beak Guesthouse for ages 8 and up. This is the publisher’s recommendation and reflects reading demands, rule complexity and small components rather than theme alone. Younger players can often join with help from an adult, so check the age guidance on your edition and consider your group’s experience with board games.
Ugly Gryphon Inn: The Little Beak Guesthouse has a complexity rating of 2.0 out of 5 from BoardGameGeek players, which makes it a medium-light game. The rating reflects how much rules knowledge, planning and decision-making a typical game demands. Expect a longer first teach for heavier games, and use a preparation guide before game night.
Ugly Gryphon Inn: The Little Beak Guesthouse belongs to these categories: Card Game and Expansion for Base-game. Its main mechanics are Solo / Solitaire Game. Categories describe the theme and setting of a game, while mechanics describe what players actually do on their turns. Each mechanic links to a catalogue hub with similar games, which helps when you want something comparable.
The credited designers of Ugly Gryphon Inn: The Little Beak Guesthouse are: Scott Almes. These credits come from the published game data and name the people responsible for the game’s design, not its illustrators or publishers. Designer pages on MeepleRules collect other titles by the same designers, which helps when you enjoy a game and want to find similar ones.
The catalogue lists Ugly Gryphon Inn: The Little Beak Guesthouse as an expansion for Ugly Gryphon Inn. Expansions add new content, rules or scenarios to the base game and usually cannot be played on their own, so you need Ugly Gryphon Inn to use it. Check that your edition of Ugly Gryphon Inn is compatible, as some expansions were revised between editions.