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Pingo Splash

Penguin-PirateS Board the ship!

Ships and pirates are a never-ending, perpetually interesting topic, as are penguins and the ocean and both penguins and pirates find themselves on wobbling planks or floes. So what could be more enticing than to combine all this and to create penguin pirates who want to board a ship?

The ship is assembled and placed on the ocean wave base. Each player is given a different number of penguins - depending on the number of players, eight in case of two players, five for three players and four when four are playing. Those penguin pirates are not especially player-marked, but are all the same. In your turn you try to place on of your penguin pirates onto the ship - anywhere you like, in one of the crow's nests, on the yardarms or on the main ship's body itself, without causing the ship to capsize. The rules mention especially that the penguin pirates are wearing a special pirate head-dress which you can use to hang a penguin pirate onto the ship.

A penguin pirate toppling over on the ship is of no consequence while he is not causing the ship to capsize, he stays where he is. If your penguin pirate causes the ship to capsize so that one or more penguin pirates go overboard, the game ends and the winner is whoever managed to place a penguin pirate correctly before the capsize.

A game mechanism that cannot be faulted and is always of interest to children, albeit being not really new - design and components are very nice, the components practical and pretty, the penguin pirates enchanting and you really can hang them onto the ship by their head-scarf - all that is needed now is your understanding of balance!

Players: 2-4

Age: 5+

Time: 10+

Designer: not named

Artist: not named

Price: ca. 20 Euro

Publisher: University Games 2013

Web: www.universitygames.net

Genre: Dexterity, balance

Users: For children

Version: multi

Rules: de fr nl

In-game text: no

Comments:

Plastic components

Cute penguin pieces

Standard game mechanism

Minimalistic rules

Compares to:

Riff-Raff and other balance games

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 0

Tactic (turquoise): 0

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