Thin Ice (1992)

About this game

This game has a lower tray that with supports suspending an upper ring in which a thin white tissue (the ice) is stretched. Players take the large Eskimo tweezers, and one at a time use them to place a marble on the "ice". Eventually the weight of the marbles breaks the "ice" and dumps them all down into the lower tray. The player who hasn't broken through the "ice" three times wins.

Does it fit your group?

• Group size. Works with 2 to 4.
• Rules load. At 1.0/5 this is a light game — explain it in a few minutes, good for a table that has not played much.
• Age. The publisher suggests 5 and up. That rates the rules rather than the artwork, so judge the box yourself for younger players.