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Rescue Polar Bears

#205544BGG ↗

2016 · 1-4 players · 60min · weight 2.80 · 140 ratings

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ID
205544
Name
Rescue Polar Bears
Year
2016
Rank
11902
Min players
1
Max players
4
Playing time
60
Min playtime
30
Max playtime
60
Avg weight
2.8
Num weights
5
Bayes avg
5.56276
Average
6.70843
Users rated
140
Num owned
258
Wanting
28
Wishing
210
Num comments
38
Fetched at
Wed Apr 29 2026 05:34:57 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Mechanisms (7)
Action PointsCooperative GameDice RollingHand ManagementModular BoardPick-up and DeliverVariable Player Powers
Categories (5)
AnimalsEnvironmentalMiniaturesNauticalTransportation
Description (1661 chars)

Rescue Polar Bears happens in A.D 2045. With increasingly serious global warming, the last area of ice on land at the North Pole is melting and all the polar bears are homeless. Players in this game will be a team formed by all nations to save them. This is a co-operative game for 1-4 players. Players will co-operate with each other by choosing proper actions and card effects, so that they can save all of the homeless polar bears. Each player chooses a ship of a nation at the beginning of the game and he or she will be the captain of the ship. Different ships have different abilities, which can be improved during the game. Also, there are various cards of 4 main kinds in this game. Captains start with some of them and they can get or use them during the whole game. Rescue Polar Bears is played in turns. In one captain’s turn, he has several actions to choose, such as moving, delivering and using cards. A captain has 3 action points per turn, which can be used to choose the actions mentioned above. The homeless polar bears stand on ices, waiting the captain’s rescue. The ices they stand on is melting with time elapsing, accidentally or step by step. When an ice is melt, the polar bears on it may drop down into the water and face their unlucky fate. So it’s crucial for the captains to co-operate with each other by choosing proper actions and card effects before that tragedy. The game can be ended by 3 ways: Saving all polar bears, using up time or having a polar bear fall into the water. You group will get scores, based on your performance, in either ending. Then, share your scores with your friends and families!

LLM v2 (wide)

Not yet enriched at v2 (wide pass).

LLM v3 (deep)

Not yet enriched at v3 (deep pass).

LLM v4 wide (controlled-vocab primitives)

Not yet enriched at v4 (wide pass).

LLM v4 deep (archetype fit)

Not in the v4 deep-pass top-20% slice.