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Designed By	Jeff Siadek
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Published By	Fat Messiah Games Gorilla Games
Year Published	2002
# of Players:	4 − 6
User Suggested # of Players	Best with 6 players Recommended with 5, 6 players (10 voters) [poll]
Playing Time	45 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages	0 and up
User Suggested Ages	12 and up (3 voters) [poll]
Language Dependence	Some necessary text - easily memorized or small crib sheet (7 voters) [poll]
Category	Bluffing Card Game Humor Nautical Negotiation Travel Show More »
Mechanic	Co-operative Play Hand Management Partnerships Secret Unit Deployment Set Collection Trading Variable Player Powers Show More »
Primary Name	Lifeboat
Alternate Names
Expanded By	Lifeboat Expansion #1: Cannibalism
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Your only hope for survival is to climb aboard a Lifeboat and head out into uncharted waters. But as supplies run low and hidden treasure is discovered, the passengers start to take sides. Protect your secret love, watch out for your secret enemy, and grab as much loot as you can!

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Lifeboat Expansion #1: Cannibalism

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Like New	£15.00	22-Jun-2009
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New	€17.99	18-Oct-2008

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12	Reviews Bring on the grudges!	2009-08-21	fliptrackr	1
1	General First play leaves me with a bundle of questions...	2009-08-12	Blott	2
3	Reviews Man overboard – let’s throw in the chum	2009-07-24	madax66	1
0	Rules Limiting Table Talk	2009-06-03	Darkehorse	3
2	Rules Row deck: separate or back into the Navigation deck each turn?	2009-03-19	LordBobbio	1
1	Rules Multiple weapons and psychopaths	2009-02-15	shelflife...	2
1	Rules Outright murder	2009-02-12	BruceGee	8
1	Rules Playing cards on characters	2008-10-27	Monkatron	1
4	General Should I buy this game?	2008-09-11	rantinron...	4
1	Rules Overboard Question	2008-08-31	Sharga	2

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Modular Lifeboat

I loved fenolin's lifeboat board, but wanted to always keep that cramped-spaces feeling, so I made a modular board with three center sections that can be added to increase the size of the lifeboat from 4 up to 7 players.

cdippel71

2009-10-19

Russian translation of the rules

Unofficial russian translation of the 2007 edition rules.

romanko

2009-08-12

Lifeboat simplified Chinese

Rules translation in simplified Chinese by darffe 20081201

darffe

2008-12-01

Box with player mat for homemade version

Box with player mat for homemade version (see images section)

fenolin

2008-01-19

Regals en español

Reglas en español. Revisadas con las ultimas variaciones y FAQs. Algunos gráficos adptados a mi versión casera.

fenolin

2008-01-02

Lifeboat rules.pdf

2007 Edition Lifeboat Rules

ourhero

2007-09-18

LifeboatFAQ.pdf

Official Lifeboat FAQ

ourhero

2007-08-28

LIFEBOATcardmanifest.doc

Lifeboat card manifest

monkeyrobot

2006-10-18

LifeboatRules.doc

Rules (for those who dislike rules on tiny cards)

bengkohn

2002-09-20

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49	One Degree of Separation II: A Song Name Game for 6 GeekGold!! (Congrats Mike Rensik and Eric Paradas)	2007-04-23
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	Statistics

Board Game Rank:	1449
Num Ratings:	295
Average Rating:	6.35
Standard Deviation:	1.48
Num Views:	22878
GeekBuddy Analysis:	Analyze
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Avg. Game Weight:	1.5
Fans:	6

Personal Comments:	140
Users Owning:	419
Users Wanting:	51
Users Trading:	16
Has Parts For Trade:	0
Want Parts In Trade:	0
Price History:	View
Total Plays:	447
Plays This Month:	3

Linked Items Relationship: Expansions for this Game	[Submit Corrections »]
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Lifeboat Expansion #1: Cannibalism

Rank	0
Num Ratings	43
Average Rating	6.73
Average Weight	1.25

Owned	145
Prev. Owned	3
For Trade	3
Wanted in Trade	6

Wishlist	10
Comments	15
Year Pub.	2008

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Home made version (versión casera)	http://webs.ono.com/fenolin/lifeboat.html	2008-02-08
Bruno Faidutti's ideal game library	http://www.faidutti.com/index.php?Module=ludothequ...	2007-10-04
Game review a La Tana dei Gobin	http://nuke.goblins.net/modules.php?name=Reviews&r...	2004-04-03
Lifeboat product page on FMG site	http://www.fatmessiahgames.com/fmg/lifeboat/lifebo...	2003-12-14
Fat Messiah Games	http://www.fatmessiahgames.com/smg/lifeboat.html	2002-12-14

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