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Antartik

diving in the antarctic Ocean

Penguins in Antarctica hold a springboard diving competition and try to cram as many representations as possible before entering the water and, of course, to avoid a belly flopper. 55 cards are numbered from 1 to 10; cards numbered 8, 9 and 10 carry a bonus symbol. Each player receives a card with a number equal to the number of players.

In order to dive you draw a card from the stack and place it in the middle and pause briefly to allow other players to place a bid or signal their refraining from betting. This is repeated until you stop voluntarily and enter the water or turn up a card already visible and thus produce a belly flopper. If you end the dive deliberately you receive all cards, in case of a belly flopper only the last one drawn. The next player can continue the dive or start a new one. Before each new card the other players can bid on the result of the next card; they place a face-down card and lose their bet when the diver draws a new card successfully, the bid card goes to the diver. When the diver enters the water or belly flops, the better wins and places the face-down card with himself. If nobody bids you can discard a card with the necessary symbol and look at the next three cards; if you discard a parachute card you can annul a belly flopper. When the drawing pile is finished you score 1 point for open cards and 2 points for face-down cards in your display.

Can’t stop in a different way! Nice, quick, funny, prettily illustrated, and, as the number of a card is equal to its amount in the stack you can assess probabilities for pairs if you have a good card memory.

Players: 2-5

Age: 5+

Time: 15+

Designer: Bruno Cathala, Arnaud Urbon

Artist: David Boniffacy

Price: ca. 10 Euro

Publisher: ilopeli 2012

Web: www.ilopeli.com

Genre: Card game

Users: For families

Version: multi

Rules: de en fr it nl

In-game text: no

Comments:

Separate hologram of the cover graphics is included

Good family game

Elder children can assess probabilities

Compares to:

Can’t stop and other games with a voluntary stop mechanism

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 3

Tactic (turquoise): 1

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 2

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 0

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0