The little penguins are striving to stay atop a melting iceberg. Unfortunately the body heat of the penguins is melting the ice. Who can stay afloat the longest? Each player will take on the role of a penguin. On your turn, you will make a move, then remove (or melt) the spot that you left. If you can't make a legal move then you're out of the game. Last...
In Penguin Panic: The Great Icescape, the players control penguin placement in a prison yard. Using a Venn diagram the players place penguins into various places that will benefit themselves, filling up the area they have control of. Each player needs to help penguins escape from the prison. Careful placement allows the penguins to escape the region they...
It is a truth universally acknowledged that everybody loves seeing penguins sliding around on the ice. And soccer is the world's game, right? So take some cute families of penguins, give them an icy soccer field and a ball, and watch the slippery goodness that ensues. . . Penguin Soccer is a game in the tradition of Chess, Checkers and Go. There are no...
A card-laying game (like a tile-laying game, but with cards) in which players are throwing a party for penguins. Cards are either Penguin Guests or the Entertainers that perform for them. Each turn, a player must add one penguin to the party grid and may also claim any penguin as his own. As Entertainer Cards become sufficiently surrounded, the...
Penim is a variant of Nim, played with five kinds of pieces: 11 small circles, 9 short rounded rectangles, 7 small squares, 5 long rounded rectangles, and 3 large squares. The pieces are organized into heaps and the players take turns removing the pieces until none are left. The last player to remove a piece wins the game. The rules provide for varying...
Penki is a tactical, dynamic 5-in-a-row game. As with most 5-in-a-row games, each player strives to create a row of 5 pieces of her color. In Penki, however, there is a 3rd color which is wild, and all the pieces wait, hidden in a bag, to be drawn. Each Player owns 14 pairs of pieces, randomly drawn from the bag. On your turn, you either add a new board...
You are well-mannered nobles settling grievances in the time-honored tradition: Dueling catapults attached to old-timey bicycles, launching wealth at each other! Your goal is to hit and collect valuable items from the track. Unfortunately, your catapult is so rickety, it moves backwards the same distance that you launched! Try to stay out of range of your...
Penny Patterns is played with thirty-six pennies on a board made up of blue and red circles. On each turn the active player flips a penny and places it in a red (inner) circle if it comes up tails and a blue (outer) circle if it comes up heads. Placing in a blue circle entitles a player to go again. The object is to form symmetrical patterns of at least...
Pent-Up is the brother game of SEVEN, Counterplays and Stack-22 by the same designer. It uses the same rules but different pieces. Pent-Up uses 12 pentominoes per player (black and 'ice'). A pentomino is a piece composed of five congruent squares, connected along their edges. There are 12 different pentominoes. Pentominoes are well known in the board game...
ペンタキューブマッチ (Penta cube match) is a 2 player abstract game from Japan. Players are trying to fill a narrow space with pentacubes against the clock. A pentacube is made from five cubes joined in various different patterns. There are two sets of matching cubes, one set for each player. At the beginning of the game, all the pentacubes are mixed up in a bag...
The game is played by two players or two teams of two players and is a curious amalgam of Go and Monopoly. The object is to eliminate the opponent's stones. There is an outer circuit with roughly every other square being a "castle property", the others bearing various instructions (Monopoly-style). The inner board consists of 10x10 lines enclosing 81...