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Adrift in uncharted waters, six people share a tiny lifeboat. As the supplies run low, they discover that some barrels are filled with jewels and art treasures instead of water or hardtack. Greed mixes with love and hatred as the passengers take sides. Will you help row, and thus have a hand in guiding the boat's course? Try to shove your way into the quartermaster's seat? Start a fight to grab some loot? Or just bide your time until you can nudge your enemy overboard into shark-infested waters?
Lifeboat is a fast-paced card game of intrigue and survival. Players vie for the highest score when the boat reaches land — a seemingly simple matter of surviving with the most treasure. But each player has a secret love and a secret enemy among the passengers, and no one knows when landfall will occur.
Each round of the game represents one day at sea as you row, bully, or jockey for a favorable seat on the lifeboat and for a favorable share of the treasures that float by. Players try to control provisions, use bribes and weapons, and combat the weather in the ultimate game of survival.
You win by having the most points at the end of the game. You’ll score various amounts of points:
• If you are still alive
• If the player you secretly love is still alive
• If the player you secretly hate is dead
• If you have Treasure cards in your possession and your body is in the boat (dead or alive)
- A good game
- Clever mechanics
- Fun
- Cool theme
- Survival at sea
- A lifeboat
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Player Elimination — Players aim to get themselves killed if they are with the person they hate, while others try to keep them alive.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- This is just a really solid deck builder.
- It's one of those games that if you're going to bring something to a table that's got a lot of new players, I think it's a fantastic choice.
- It's probably going to take you about 15 minutes to set up.
- But it's a game that feels substantial and it feels like you've accomplished something.
References (from this video)
- The possibility of having both a loved one and a hated one as yourself exists.
- The game works even if everyone is a psychopath.
- The island setting was better than the lifeboat setting.
- Throwing people off a boat and feeding them to sharks
- Desert Island
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Character roles — Players get assigned a character they love and a character they hate at the start of the game.
- Scoring based on others' deaths — Players get points for everyone who dies except for themselves and their secret love.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- the one other game that took us by surprise was Crackle or Rackle, which is a drawing game where you draw a word.
- It's a Viking game without much Viking Vikinging.
- Endeavor Deep Sea, amazing if anybody's played that.
- It's one of those games where you think you can just do better every next no next game I'll do more you know better.
- It's a really good poker dice game that from Schmidt and it's No one ever talks about it and it's so good.
- The games were all the library. It's all for charity, by the way.
- We sold $11,500 worth of games in an hour.
- It's like, "Oh, you have Mestre Schmidt 57. Amazing."
- I just got talked into reviewing a a war game because I like the people. They're so nice. I was like, I don't like war games.
- It's like, "Wow, this is cool."
- I mean, they're like, "Take them, right?"
- It's a year-long internship. It's life-changing.
- I am on the verge of victory here.
- He can take any stealth card from the discard pile.
- It's really good. You see James Bond just losing his mind screaming at people.
- The Phoenician scheme. Asteroid City is not in the box set.
References (from this video)
- meanest game ever made
- weird social dynamics
- lifeboat
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- End game scoring — And then you score at the end of the game.
- Hidden Roles — You hate one character and you love one character. The character you hate or love could be yourself.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- The Morrigan Game Factory though, what a great escape room game. It might it's it's definitely in my top escape room games.
- Noobs in Space is one of my favorite little games that's so unique and interesting. You have a deck of cards, you deal them out to everybody. Everybody has cards in their hand, and then you just solve those cards by saying things out loud, working together to play cards, and hopefully you solve it. It communication is the key. You can say anything you want, uh but you just can't show cards. And it's hilarious and fun. Very, very enjoyable.
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