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Mount Pingo

Sunbathing Penguins

Penguins want to do some sunbathing on the coolest iceberg in the Antarctic, room on it is therefore much in demand and scarce. The Iceberg is set up and one big penguin is leaned against it, six seagulls and six fish pins are made ready. The remaining cards – big penguins, small penguins, walruses, seagulls, fish and clouds – are shuffled and dealt evenly to all players. Each players stacks his cards face-down. The active player reveals his top card: A penguin is placed, feet down, at on the floe; a big penguin leans against other penguins or the iceberg and must be placed somewhat staggered so that the others still get some sun; small penguins lean at big ones, never directly at the iceberg. The walrus wants to get some sun, too, but it is clumsy and pushes a big penguin off the floe – you need to snip off one big penguin, never a small one, and always only one card. Then you set walrus and penguin card aside. A cloud is placed on top, never completely covering another cloud already in place. Seagulls are attached to any card on the floe and the seagull card is discarded. Fishes are attached to a big penguin and the fish card is also discarded.

When cards tilt or fall off, you take them for penalty points. When a fish action goes wrong or a seagull falls off, you set the fish or seagull piece down into stock and take one of the discarded seagull or fish cards for a penalty point. When someone is out of cards, you win with fewest cards.

Those penguins are cute, as are seagulls and fish! The “build a house of cards” mechanism is a clever idea and another form of dexterity exercise.

Players: 1-5

Age: 5+

Time: 15+

Designer: Arno Steinwender, Christoph Puhl

Artist: Markus Binz

Price: ca. 16 Euro

Publisher: HUCH! & friends 2015

Web: www.hutter-trade.com

Genre: Dexterity, balance

Users: For children

Special: 1 player

Version: multi

Rules: de en fr nl se

In-game text: no

Comments:

Enchanting idea

Cute illustrations

Well-working dexterity variant

Compares to:

Balance and dexterity games

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 1

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): 2