Ice Team (2019)

About this game

Ice Team is a two-player racing game in which you have to bring your polar bears as quickly as possible to the finish line, having collected as many fish as possible from the igloos. Each turn, a player moves one of their four bears in any directions over round ice tiles with either an ice floe, an igloo (hiding some fish), or a malus (like seal, withdrawing some fish). After an ice floe is visited, the tile is removed from the table, thereby creating a gap that bears can't use on future turns. The player who manages to reach the finish line with the most fish wins.

Does it fit your group?

• Group size. Strictly 2 players — no more, no fewer.
• Rules load. At 1.5/5 this is a light game — explain it in a few minutes, good for a table that has not played much.
• Age. The publisher suggests 8 and up. That rates the rules rather than the artwork, so judge the box yourself for younger players.