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Ice Lake box art
2002 Ranked #21,768

Ice Lake

A simultaneous-planning survival game has skaters move across thin ice while drawing cracks behind them. Fully surrounded areas collapse, eliminating trapped players, so the last skater still on the ice wins.

Abstract Abstract Strategy Children's Game Action Queue Enclosure

Players

2-4

Play time

Not listed

Age

9+

Complexity

1.36/5

Rating

5.51

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.4/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 3.9/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.7/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.0/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

Players are ice skaters on thin ice. As they skate they leave cracks behind them (which are drawn on the board with dry erase markers).

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Players are ice skaters on thin ice. As they skate they leave cracks behind them (which are drawn on the board with dry erase markers). Any area completely surrounded by cracks is unstable, so if you're surrounded by cracks you're out of the game. The goal is to be the last one still on the ice. Play is in two phases: first players write their "plans", and then they take turns moving their skaters each "step" of their plan.

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Play and group

Players
2–4
Best with
2
Play time
20 min
Age
9+
Complexity
1.4/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
Patrick Matthews

Publishers

1
Live Oak Games

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