A GAME OF SKILL

OBJECT: To flick your puck as close to a baby penguin as possible without knocking anything over!

You sit the 3 daddy penguins on the triangular icebergs on the table: they delimit the playing area. You then place each of the 4 baby penguins on a puck in the middle of the playing area. You stack the counters into 5 piles, by colour, with the penguin side face up, next to the playing area. The players each take a puck. In turn, the players try to move their puck by flicking it towards the baby penguins. As soon as a player is close enough to a baby penguin for it to slide across onto her puck, she can take the top counter from the pile of the same colour as the baby she just moved, place it in front of her, and she thereby wins the points indicated on the back of the counter. As soon as the first pile of counters has been exhausted, the game stops and you count your points. Beware! If you knock over a penguin (a daddy or a baby) you have to take the top counter from the “cross daddy” pile, that can cost you points!

+++ A super slippery game of skill and strategy!

A PUZZLE GAME

OBJECT: To place as many pieces as possible on the board, so as to be left holding as few squares as possible at the end of the game.

Place all the pieces in the centre of the table. The pieces comprise 5 or 6 squares each. Firstly, the players choose their pieces one by one, in turn. Then they place them on the board, one by one, in turn, arranging them so as to leave their opponent(s) as few opportunities as possible for positioning their own pieces. When no-one can place another piece on the board, the game ends and players count the number of squares on the pieces have left. The winner is the player with the fewest squares left.

+++ A puzzle game for 2, 3 or 4 players.

A GAME OF TACTICS

OBJECT: To be the first to collect 7 coloured tokens in a given order.

Players each receive 7 coloured tokens which they line up in front of them: this sequence determines the order in which each player has to collect the coloured tokens on the board. In turn, players make “L-shaped” moves on the board. If, at the end of a move, you land on a token that corresponds to the next colour in your sequence: you pick it up. If you land on a special token you can use its “power” (extra move, protection, etc.). If you land on a square occupied by an opponent you can steal one of the tokens he has already collected. The first player to collect the 7 coloured tokens wins the game.

+++ Make the best use of the special squares on the board, which are arranged differently every time you play!