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Ice is melting

A sunny day in Antarctica. The little penguins are learning to swim and to catch fish. Ice floes break off and drift away with penguins. We are tasked to bring them back.

TO set up the game you shuffle the indicated number of floe tiles - they depict sun, fish, orca-fin, penguin or only water - face-down and lay them out on the board, ice floe side up. Then you take turns to place your penguin family of one color one by one, first the baby penguins, then the Mama - they all are placed on floes at the edge of the board, baby penguins are at the start not allowed on corner spots, contrary to mamas who are allowed there. Aim of the game is to get all babies to their mamas.

In your turn you taken empty floe off the board and implement its action: For a sun you remove another empty floe and implement its action immediately; Fish gives you energy and you have an additional movement. For an orca fin you relocate a penguin baby to another empty floe and for the Penguin you can swim one of your penguins across open water and may change direction once; at the start of the swim your penguin must sit on a tile next to water. Then you move penguins, either one step onto an adjacent empty floe tile or you switch mama and baby penguin or you relocate a tile with one of your penguins. If you are first to assemble your penguins or if you pick up the last empty floe, you trigger the end of the game and score one point for each baby with its mama and minus one point for each opposing baby with your mama; you win with most points.

Cute, sweet and simple, a nice family game with a familiar topic and nicely mixed standard mechanisms.

Players: 2-4

Age: 6+

Time: 45+

Designer: Jarno Siekkinen

Artist: Katri Vainiomäki

Price: ca. 40 Euro

Publisher: Roll D6 Games 2013

Web: www.rolld6.fi

Genre: Tile removal, group formation

Users: For families

Version: multi

Rules: en fi

In-game text: no

Comments:

Simple rules

Interesting as an example for Finnish games

Plain, components, elegant box

Compares to:

Other placement and relocation games with group formation

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 3

Tactic (turquoise): 1

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 1

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0