Designer	Ronald Wettering
Artist	Matthias Catrein Wolfgang Steinmeyer
Publisher	Argentum Verlag Walter Müller's Spielewerkstatt Z-Man Games
Year Published	1993
# of Players	3 − 6
User Suggested # of Players	Best with 6 players Recommended with 5, 6 players (40 voters) [poll]
Playing Time	90 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages	12 and up
User Suggested Ages	12 and up (7 voters) [poll]
Language Dependence	No necessary in-game text (7 voters) [poll]
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Subdomain	Family Games Strategy Games (14 voters) [vote]
Category	Nautical Negotiation
Mechanic	Simultaneous Action Selection Voting
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Primary Name	Lifeboats
Alternate Names	Every Man for Himself Rette Sich Wer Kann Sauve qui peut Seenot im Rettungsboot 救生艇
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Also known as 'Rette Sich Wer Kann' ('Each Man for Himself') and often times referred to as 'The Lifeboat Game,' this pure negotiation game puts a different spin on the typical ocean catastrophe. There's been a boating accident, and a rag-tag group of six lifeboats is trying to make its way to one of several islands just over the horizon. However only one boat will make any forward progress in a given turn, so players try to convince everyone to vote for his particular favorite. To further complicate matters, the sailors can't seem to decide which boat they want to be in, so they're constantly jumping out of boats to swim to another one. As if all that wasn't enough, one of the boats springs a leak each turn. If the boat is at maximum occupancy when the leak occurs, then players vote to decide who to toss to the sharks!

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Z-Man English Edition

Publisher: Z-Man Games

Artist: Matthias Catrein

Year: 2006

Product Code: ZMG 7013

Size: 12.40 x 8.86 x 1.97 inches

2.39 pounds

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Argentum Verlag German Edition

Publisher: Argentum Verlag

Artist: Matthias Catrein

Year: 2006

Size: 12.40 x 8.86 x 1.97 inches

English, German

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First edition

Publisher: Walter Müller's Spielewerkstatt

Artist: Wolfgang Steinmeyer

Year: 1993

Size: 14.00 x 10.62 x 2.00 inches

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Lifeboats Greek Rules

Lifeboats Greek rules in .pdf format.

Exodiac

2011-05-01

Lifeboats - Rules (2 page summary)

Lifeboats rules in English, (Version 2.0) This document contains the complete rules for Lifeboats, including the "stick rule" that was present in the German version of the game. I printed these out back-to-back, laminated it, and keep it in my game as a quick reference. It is blue to keep with the nautical theme!

Benjamin Maggi

2010-10-08

Anchor Markers in Six Colours

It's true - it can be difficult to remember your colour. These markers, in six colours, have improved graphics.

da pyrate

2009-09-16

Teaching aid for Lifeboats- in Hebrew

המערך אינו הסבר ממצה של חוקי המשחק אלא אמצעי עזר לשחקן המסביר את חוקי המשחק לשחקנים חדשים

koby_shachar

2009-05-01

Teaching aid for Lifeboats- in Hebrew

המערך אינו הסבר ממצה של חוקי המשחק אלא אמצעי עזר לשחקן המסביר את חוקי המשחק לשחקנים חדשים

koby_shachar

2009-05-01

English Rules [incl German Rules Stick variant]

PDF file of existing english rules (from publisher site) edited to include the stick rules from the German Rules (added to last page of PDF in previously blank area). This should make this easier to find out the stick rules referred to in the forums

iandstanley

2009-02-28

Lifeboat Rules in Korean ver1.0

Translated in Korean

iamsyl

2009-02-16

Lifeboats Greek Translation

For Z-Man edition, based on a text of Shawn Low.

Emil 109

2009-02-15

Rette Sich Wer Kann - Portuguese Translation

Tradução para Português da primeira edição.

Zenao

2008-04-13

Flags to denote player colours before pawns drown.xls

A number of players have said they can't remember who is playing what colour, especially early in the game before pawns start to drown (it's a lovely game!) These markers should help. Print, fold, glue - or just print!

Jim Marshall

2007-09-01

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Dutch review on speldatabase.be (1993)	http://speldatabase.be/spelinfo.php?id=365&zoekcri...	2012-02-04
Dutch rules (1993)	http://spelarch.khbo.be/PDFspelregels/365.pdf	2012-02-04
German review - spieletest.at	http://www.spieletest.at/spiel.php?ID=2229	2011-04-21
German review - Spielphase	http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/keirat/tx...	2011-04-21
German review - Spiele-Akademie	http://www.spiele-akademie.de/seenot-im-rettungsbo...	2011-04-21
German review - Reich der Spiele	http://www.reich-der-spiele.com/kritiken/SeenotImR...	2011-04-21
German review - Ludoversum	http://www.ludoversum.de/cgi-bin/ludo.pl?action=sh...	2011-04-21
German review - games we play	http://gamesweplay.de/seenotimrettungsboot.html	2011-04-21
German review - Cliquenabend	http://www.cliquenabend.de/spiele/354000-Seenot-im...	2011-04-21
Polish review at GamesFanatic.pl	http://www.gamesfanatic.pl/2007/04/12/seenot-im-re...	2011-04-11