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Game Entry

Lifeboats

(1993)
User Rating: 6.8 / 10 (903 Ratings)
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Designed By: Ronald Wettering
Published By: Kosmos (Franckh-Kosmos)
Walter Müller's Spielewerkstatt
Z-Man Games
Argentum Verlag
# of Players: 3 - 6
Playing Time: 90 Minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages: 12 and up
Category: Negotiation
Mechanics: Voting
Other Names:
Every Man for Himself
Seenot im Rettungsboot
Rette Sich Wer Kann
救生艇

Description

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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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User Rank: 393
Num Ratings: 903
Average Rating: 6.83
Standard Deviation: 1.38
Num Views: 38559
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Avg. Game Weight: 1.85 moreinfo
Personal Comments: 430
Users Owning: 900
Users Wanting: 156
Users Trading: 21
Has Parts For Trade: 0
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Price History: View
Total Plays: 1082
Plays This Month: 9
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0 Rette Sich Wer Kann - Portuguese Translation
Rette sich Wer Kann_PT.pdf
Tradução para Português da primeira edição.
1 Flags to denote player colours before pawns drown.xls
Flags to denote player colours before pa...
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!
0 Lifeboats - Sommario.pdf
Lifeboats - Sommario.pdf
Lifeboats sommario in italiano - Game Summary in italian
2 Lifeboats Player Aid V1.doc
Lifeboats Player Aid V1.doc
Lifeboats Player Aid, English, Z-Man edition, Sterling Babcock, Version 1.0
0 lifeboats_fr.pdf
lifeboats_fr.pdf
French rules by La Fievre du Jeu
3 Rette Sich Wer Kann Updated Rules.pdf
Rette Sich Wer Kann Updated Rules.pdf
Updated Game Cabinet Rules (including errata and revisions).
0 Rette parts.doc
Rette parts.doc
Parts list for Rette Sich Werr Kann
0 rette_rg.pdf
rette_rg.pdf
Traduction fraçaise par François Haffner

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