Penguins & Polarbears is card-driven bluffing and memory game for 2-4 players. Over the course of the round, players try to accumulate the most penguins in order to win the game.

At the start of each round, players are dealt 8 cards. Each card has either a polar bear on it, or 1-3 penguins. Each player places their highest value penguin card face up to create a pile then play begins with the first player. Players take turns to play one of their cards either face up or face down on any pile, or they can start a new pile. If a player suspects that a player may have played a polar bear card, they can move their player pawn down the peek track in order to peek at the top card of any pile.

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When you peek at a card, another player pins it down by placing their finger on one of the igloo icons on the back of the card. Then you may lift the card and look at whatever you can see.

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Play continues until all players have played all their cards and the players take turns selecting piles and adding them to their score zone. Players try to avoid piles with an odd number of polarbears in them, because they will scare off all the penguins and mean that pile scores 0! If you get lucky, you might have 2 polarbears in the same pile, which would cancel each other out, and leave you free to keep any penguins.​

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