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Mar 10, 2025·How to play·07:00·81·Watch on YouTube

Penguin Party: Nothing says party like a pyramid of penguins!

Ruel Gaviola

Ruel Gaviola

Watch “Penguin Party: Nothing says party like a pyramid of penguins!,” a how-to-play guide for Penguin Party from Ruel Gaviola on BoardGameVideo.

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Penguin Party

Penguin Party

2008·Reiner Knizia

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13
Creators
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Mostly reviews and playthroughs. Penguin Party is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 5 reviews, 2 how-to-play guides, 5 recorded sessions, and 1 unboxings.

2 - 6 players
15 min
Light weight: Learn it in minutes

About Penguin Party, from BoardGameGeek:

After a long dark winter, the sun is shining and it's party time for the penguins, who celebrate by fishing. To look over the waters more easily, the penguins build high pyramids. The more penguins you can fit in the pyramid, the better - but it's not that easy. In Penguin Party, players collectively build a pyramid of penguins, trying to empty their hands of cards along the way. The deck consists of 36 penguin cards: 8 green and 7 each of red, blue, yellow, and purple. Deal the deck out as evenly as possible, with the final card in a five-player game starting as the first card in the base of the pyramid. On a turn, you either play a card to the left or right of the base of the pyramid, which can be at most eight cards wide, or play a card on a higher level of the pyramid so long as it's supported by two penguins, at least one of which is the same color as the card being played. If you cannot play a card, discard your hand face down and take as many penalty markers as the number of cards you didn't play. If you empty your hand, you can return two penalty markers previously collected to the supply. Play as many rounds as the number of players, with each player starting one of the rounds. Whoever has the fewest penalty markers at the end of the game wins. (With two players, deal each player 14 cards, remove the other cards from play without looking at them, and build a pyramid with a base only seven cards wide.) Admin note: This game looks very similar to Penguin, but differs not only in components (being a card game while Penguin has 3D penguin tokens), but also in the number of colors and distribution. Penguin has four colors with nine pieces each, while this game has five colors with a distribution of 4x7 + 1x8.

Designer

Reiner Knizia

Artists

Wanjin Gill, Okamoto Kanako, Ana Marco, Ewa Podleś, TANSAN Inc., Markus Wagner, Kaori "Goo" Yamaguchi

Publisher

AMIGO

Categories

AnimalsCard Game

Mechanics

Hand Management
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