Ice Ring: A Printable Board Game
Roll dice to rotate the ring, then move penguins on and off ice floes to reach destinations or collect fish!
print this and you're good to go!
Kids love it!*
*I mean my kids. Mileage may vary.
Components
- Main Board: The outer game board with various terrain and locations.
- The Ring: The rotating inner ring with ice floes.
- Penguins: Player pieces (4 per player).
- 4 Icebergs: Starting locations and home bases.
- Ice Cave: Destination building.
- Fish Pile: Destination building.
- Snow Slide: Destination building.
- Fish: Collectible tokens for CTF mode.
- Player count: 2-4 players.
Assembly Instructions
- Cut out all the pieces from the printed sheets.
- Tape the main board pieces together, leaving the hole for the ring in the middle.
- Put the ring in the middle of the board.
- Optionally, put a pin or a tack or something in the middle to make it easy to spin the ring.
Game Mechanics
- A player rolls a dice and decides whether to rotate the ring clockwise or counterclockwise by the number of fields shown on the dice.
- After moving the ring, all players are free to move their penguins on or off the ice floes.
- When a penguin is next to an ice floe, it can embark onto it.
- When a penguin is on an ice floe and there's a building at the adjacent field, it can disembark there.
- Only one penguin can fit on each ice floe.
- Penguins can't stand on water (duh).
- Penguins can't jump from one ice floe to another - they can only embark or disembark.
- Once all players have moved their penguins, the next person rolls.
Game Modes
Two game modes are suggested, but you should feel encouraged to create your own!
Game Mode 1: Classic
Setup:
- Put as many icebergs as players around the ring - these are the starting points.
- Each iceberg occupies one field.
- Each player puts their 4 penguins on their iceberg.
- Put the ice cave, snow slide, and fish pile somewhere around the ring.
- Easier variant: Destinations occupy two fields each.
- Harder variant: Destinations occupy one field each.
Goal: The first player to put 1 penguin on each of the destinations (ice cave, snow slide, fish pile) wins.
Game Mode 2: CTF (Capture the Fish)
Setup:
- Put icebergs and penguins as in Classic mode.
- Put as many fish as you like around the ring.
Gameplay:
- Instead of reaching destinations, penguins collect fish.
- When a penguin is adjacent to a fish, it can take it.
- A penguin can hold one fish.
- When a penguin is next to its iceberg, it can offload the fish there.
Goal: The player with the most fish captured in their iceberg wins.
