Overview
At a glance
Is this game right for my group?
ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.
Easier to teach
High replayability
Highly interactive
Scales well
Deep strategy
More strategic control
How it plays
How does it play?
Negotiate, vote, betray, and scramble between leaking boats as up to seven crews race toward safety with far too few secure seats.
Core mechanisms
Key systems that shape the decisions players make.
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Lifeboats: Plank of Carneades is a negotiation game about cooperation under pressure and the betrayal that follows. Players place sailors and officers among seven boats, then secretly vote on which boat springs a leak and which moves toward shore. Captains can overrule a vote—but only a few times—and every round ends with swimmers trying to find a better seat. This edition expands the classic design to seven players and accelerates the danger when boats fill or sink.
