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Click & Crack

Icebreaker penguins

Penguins choose their Penguin of the Year; two Penguins in a player’s team try to break up the big ice flow and collect most pieces. The floe tiles are spread out as indicated and each player in turn places first one and then in a second round a second penguin on a corner junction of the floe tiles.

When all penguins are placed, players secretly choose two actions with their tiles – the arrows on the tiles thereby need to be aligned to the border lines between tiles, horizontally or vertically – and then reveal them simultaneously. Possible actions are: One step in direction of the arrow on the tile, if a penguin sits at the target crossing it is pushed along. Or Break – you place a break chip on a border between flow tiles; when thereby part of a floe is separated you take the tiles of the smaller part for one point each. The penguin of the player who caused the break stays on the larger floe part. If you separate three or more floe tiles, you penguin floats out of play with the tiles, but you still score for them. Opposing penguins also go out of play, do not score and cost the active player one point each.

In turn each player first does one action, then again in turn the other one; you can do both actions with the same penguin or use a different penguin for each action.

You win with seven points or most points when there are only six floe tiles left or maximum two penguins.

A game with a completely abstract mechanisms and yet a cute thematic game with lots of cool flair, you seem to hear the ice crack. Nicely made, with simple rules and pretty components in a very small and handy box.

Players: 3-4

Age: 6+

Time: 20+

Designer: Jun’ichi Sato

Artist: Osamu Inoue

Price: ca. 14 Euro

Publisher: Junias / MinimalGames 2014

Web: http://junias.net

Genre: Placement

Users: For families

Version: multi

Rules: en jp + de

In-game text: no

Comments:

Miniature box

Pretty, simple components

Easy rules for an abstract, very nice game

Compares to:

Pingvinas

Other editions:

Junias (jp)

Chance (pink): 0

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 1

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0