Date: 15th March 2002
Game played: Rette Sich Wer Kann ( Walter Muller's Spielewerkstatt ) BGG Id: 249

First up this week was the leaky lifeboat game, which Nige had acquired on Ebay. This is a fun (so why Nige bought it I'll never know) negotiation game, where each player is trying to help their sailors survive long enough for them to reach shore in one of the aforementioned leaky vessels. On each turn, players vote for a boat to spring a leak, which in turn may lead to another vote on whom to toss overboard in order to keep the boat afloat. Then players vote for one of the boats to move towards the shore. Finally players in turn remove one of their sailors from one boat with a view to moving them to another boat (always providing there's space on the boat, of course. VPs are awarded for each Captain and crewman rescued at the end of the game, which occurs when all the boats have either reached the shore or gone down with all hands.

I shot off to an early lead managing to get two captains and one crewman to safety on the first two boats. This, however, meant that I became the prime target and the remainder of my men were, one by one, fed to the sharks. Ben wasn't too far behind, but he managed to keep hold of his remaining men and squeezed ahead of John and Mark for the win.

 
Player
Rating
Score
Position
Winner
Ben K
6
24
1
John
7
22
2
Mark K
6
22
2
Garry
6
20
4
Nige
7
19
5

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