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Antarctica

Robben und Pinguine begleiten

Players try to bring up two baby seals and two baby penguins safely and try to protect them in this cooperative game. In each round part of the floe melts, the animals need to find food and must be protected from animals and hunters.

All players have tasks to complete in the game, in the basis game they are completed in turn in each round, in the advanced game the tasks are re-allocated in each round. Those rounds comprise five such tasks: The starting player moves fishermen and hunters, in necessary one must use helicopters or patrol boats to protect an animal. Then the penguins are moved, the feed and grow if the were able to feed. When a penguin has been fed three times it is grown up and only moves one step. This sequence of moving, feeding and growth is then repeated for the seals. The fourth task is to move the patrol boats which guard the hunters: two boats together can take one hunter into custody. For the fifth task one part of the floe must melt, first those with cracks, then those without cracks, so one must take good care where to place an animal! Hunters can be relocated, too! When a part of the floe melts that has one of the animals on it, all players have lost the game instantly. When all four animals stay alive until they have grown up, you win together. This mechanism can be played in different levels of difficulty.

An important and interesting topic is here implemented with a nearly compulsory cooperative mechanism, painstakingly and very concrete; for instance Krill for feeding is only available near the boats! The game trains planning and cooperation, survival for the animals is the reward!

Players: 2-5

Age: 10+

Time: 30+

Designer: Jouke Korf

Artist: Tamara Havik, Ronald Baker

Price: ca. 19 Euro

Publisher: Sunny Games 2011

Web: www.sunnygames.eu

Genre: Cooperative family game

Users: For families

Version: multi

Rules: de en fr nl

In-game text: no

Comments:

Topic and cooperative mechanism go very well together

Topic has been implemented in an informative way

Trains planning and cooperation

Compares to:

Basically all cooperative game, first game with this topic and combination of mechanisms

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 1

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0