Penguin (2007)

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Designer	Reiner Knizia
Artist	Markus Wagner
Publisher	Fantasy Flight Games Lautapelit.fi Nexus Silver Stars Publishing Ubik Show More »
Year Published	2007
# of Players	2 − 6
User Suggested # of Players	(Not best with any number) Recommended with 3 players (5 voters) [poll]
Playing Time	10 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages	5 and up
User Suggested Ages	5 to 8 (2 voters) [poll]
Language Dependence	No necessary in-game text (3 voters) [poll]
Honors	2008 Fairplay À la carte Winner 2008 Golden Geek Best Children's Board Game Nominee
Subdomain	Children's Games Family Games (5 voters) [vote]
Category	Animals Children's Game
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Family	Animals: Penguins Antarctic Theme Fantasy Flight Games Toys
Primary Name	Penguin
Alternate Names	Banquise Pinguini Pingvin פינגווין
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Once a card game it seems as though Fantasy Flight has nixed this idea completely for plastic penguins! Here's the games description from the game's page itself:

Can you find room for all your penguins on the iceberg?

Reiner Knizia's fast-paced and surprisingly devious new game is fun for the whole family! Stacking penguins in a pyramid may seem easy, but watch out! Penguins will only stand atop another penguin of their own color, and if you're not careful there will be nowhere left to stand!

For 2-6 players, ages 5 and up.

Similar to Pinguïn Party, which is played with cards.

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Year: 2009

Product Code: SSP033

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Publisher: Nexus

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Fantasy Flight edition 2007

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Year: 2007

Product Code: KN16

Size: 10.25 x 7.75 x 2.50 inches

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Year: 2007

Product Code: KN16

Size: 10.12 x 7.76 x 2.56 inches

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Publisher: Ubik

Artist: Markus Wagner

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Penguin Dice Tower: Chief reviews Penguin

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1	Variants Solo Variant	2009-11-22	CarlosLuna	1
10	Strategy Why Penguin is not Completely Brainless	2008-11-16	Gola	12
8	Reviews Ahhh!!, how can you NOT! like Penguin?	2008-11-10	Rindel	13
4	Sessions Penguins served up cold	2008-02-10	Randougall	2
2	Rules Serious mistake in the Scandinavian rules	2008-01-24	Remo	2
15	Reviews BookShelf Games Video Review	2007-12-22	Subhuman	2
38	Reviews [Review] Penguin	2007-11-08	TomVasel	13
11	Reviews Penguin	2007-09-13	Pigs...	4
5	General Penguin problems	2007-08-22	atholbrose	7
0	General Cards become plastic penguins	2007-03-03	Mr Penguin	3

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Penguin Rules - English

A PDF of the English rules for Penguin.

Critical Miss

2009-07-17

Board (for horizontal play)

Since we had some trouble stacking the penguins for this game, I made a board so we could play the game horizontally (as the card version is played). Place your plastic penguins in a square, starting with the row of 8 boxes, and then making your way to the "top" of the pyramid.

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Board Game Rank:	7892
Children's Games Rank:	398
Family Game Rank:	881
Num Ratings:	372
Average Rating:	4.72
Standard Deviation:	1.84
Num Views:	34740
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Avg. Game Weight:	1.0
Fans:	0

Personal Comments:	190
Users Owning:	469
Users Wanting:	5
Users Trading:	49 [find trade matches]
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Spanish Review of Penguin	http://blog.pseudolog.com/article/pinguin-party	2012-05-15
Review on www.GoodGameGuide.de (in German)	http://www.superfred.de/pinguparty.html	2009-01-12
German review on brettspiele-report.de	http://www.brettspiele-report.de/pingu-party/	2008-08-27
Review by BrettSpillGuiden.no - Indenpendent Scandinavian Boardgame site	http://brettspillguiden.no/kritikker/?gid=508	2008-03-14