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Eiskalt erwischt

Snip hard and tumble floes and fish!

Paul Penguin wants to show off is ability to stay on top in the Arctic Sea Rodeo and players want to assist him. From four levels of ice floes an iceberg is built up, following exact instructions from the rules. On the top floe of the iceberg you place Paul Penguin and then you distribute the fish in such a way that there is a fish on each floe. In your turn you place one of your three ice discs somewhere in the Arctic Ocean (that is, in the box bottom) and snip it towards the iceberg, using either your finger or the snip-stick. This can result in one of two possibilities: Paul Penguin managed to stay in the saddle, that is, on top of the iceberg or he has tumbled off. When Paul did stay on top, the active player can take all parts that he has freed - fish, ice floes and also ice discs - and the turn passes to the next player. When Paul did tumble off, or fell over, you must but him back in place and must distribute parts that you might have freed among the other players; you don’t get anything in this case. If you want to, you can relocate Paul at the start of your turn you can do so, but it costs you one of the floes that you have already collected, you put it back onto the iceberg. You can also use a floe instead of a disc for snipping; this will result in a stronger push.

When Paul sits on the last floe, you win if you managed to collect most parts.

Eiskalt erwischt! is a dexterity game in the best tradition of Haba - simple rules, enchanting components, a nice story and lots of fun to play, and with discarding a floe to relocate Paul you can even introduce some tactic into the game.

Players: 2-4

Age: 5-9

Time: 15+

Designer: Heinz Meister

Art: Stephan Pricken

Price: ca. 21 Euro

Publisher: Hana 2012

Web: www.haba.de

Genre: Snipping game

Users: For children

Version: multi

Rules: de en es fr it nl

In-game text: no

Comments:

Attractive wooden components

Simple basic rules

Some tactic from relocating Paul and choice of floe or disc to snip

Compares to:

All snipping dexterity games

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 0

Tactic (turquoise): 1

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 0

Dexterity (green): 3

Action (dark green): 3