I had been looking for a party game for some time that could transfer to the table an experience similar to the one we have enjoyed at home for years with Keep Talking and Nobody Explodesthe fun video game in which you defuse a bomb following the instructions of your companions.
I also wanted it to be something that could be enjoyed with both friends and children so that the instructions were not too complex. Something very visual that would be more comfortable for them than more or less similar ideas, such as Secret Code. It has been fortunate that the solution has fallen into my hands as if by magic from the hand of Penguin Airlines.
A game as simple and fun as it sounds
From 2 to 8 players and with very fast rounds that will finish the game in less than half an hour (sometimes even less, it all depends on how good the teams are) what it offers us Penguin Airlines It is to put ourselves at the controls of an emergency landing while our partner is giving us instructions.
Press the red button that has a red bulb on it. Lower the big red lever to Off. On the blue key panel, tap the second of the third row… While you are listening to instructions you have to look at the collection of panels in front of you, a group of three by three double-sided tiles that you will randomly place so that they change each time. game, and choose the correct one.
If you press the correct one, your partner moves on to the next instruction while you accumulate points. If you get the control console wrong Penguin Airlines it will leave your finger stuck on that error making it difficult to see the entire panel and leaving you with one last chance to fail.
The grace of all this is that both will have to be fast enough to complete the largest number of instructions possible in just 30 seconds or, if we have been lucky and have managed to complete several letters, increase the number of turns of the clock of sand up to a maximum of two and a half minutes per turn.
Between anger and stress
With illustrations that are pretty enough to be striking, especially considering that we are dealing with a control panel full of buttons and displays, what the children have found most amusing is that there are several buttons and levers that are placed on the panels and you can move at will to place them in one position or another.
With a fantastic quality of materials to avoid scares or bends, the games we have made so far in Penguin Airlines They have proven to be up to (and test) children under even the age of 9 that it marks on the box.
The stress generated by both getting the instructions right and being fast enough to find which buttons are being talked about generates a hilarious itch both between rival teams and among members of the same, which always gives for a good handful of laughs and reproaches about how well one or the other has done.
Along with letters asking for additional sequences and the possibility of expanding the control panel to make it more difficult to find the necessary controls of the plane, Penguin Airlines It is one of those games that can come in handy to keep entertained at the table while you prepare some more brainy game or as one of those fleeting pastimes that end up lasting all afternoon even though you thought it would not last more than half an hour.
