Mayday! Mayday! - Brossura

Siggins, Lorna

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0717135292 ISBN 13: 9780717135295

Casa editrice: Gill & Macmillan Ltd, 2004

Riassunto

A pitch black night in a winter Atlantic storm. A stricken trawler, her cold and frightened crew struggling to keep her afloat a little longer, knowing that before long she will go down. For these men, it is certain death: a death that has been the lot of generations of fishermen before them. Then out of the night comes the drone of helicopter blades and the searching eye of the spotlight. On board, the helicopter crew prepares to rescue the beleaguered fishermen. This requires immense skill and vast reservoirs of raw, physical courage. It means being lowered on a winch from the safety of the helicopter into the teeth of a Force 11 gale and sheets of blinding rain in order to manoeuvre towards the deck of the sinking boat. And it has to be done as many times as there are men to save. The people who do this work are not cut from an average cloth. This book recalls and celebrates twelve cases where their courage, resourcefulness and persistence saved human lives that would otherwise have certainly been lost. The helicopter crews are not daredevils, indifferent to danger. On the contrary, they are consummate professionals, calculating the odds, facing the dangers and calmly getting the job done. These are tales of life and death and of the brave men and women who are ready on a daily basis to put their lives on the line for their fellow citizens.

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In Mayday!Mayday! all players are flight crewmembers aboard flight LK-886, on which the pilot has suddenly died. A heart attack? Poison? Murder? The copilot must now take the lead, but other crewmembers distrust him. The crew believes there are infiltrators amongst them. But who? A skirmish occurs. Will all infiltrators get exposed?Each crewmember either belongs to the honest crew, or is among the few infiltrators who know one another. At the start you receive 3 identity cards, 2 or 1 honest and 1 or 2 infiltrator. The card you have double, determines your identity. You place these secret cards, mixed, face down in front of you. Then each player looks at 1 card per neighbor. By placing a knowledge tile at a card, you show (or perhaps lie about) what you see. You'll never see more than 1 of another player's 3 cards. So you must combine your own knowledge with the claims of others! But who can you trust?? In order to keep from being unmasked, the infiltrators will naturally act as if they're trying to deduce who might betray the crew.During skirmishes, some crewmembers will receive first the "Benefit of the Doubt", then they can graduate to a status of "Reliable", and then one of these two reliable crewmembers will become the new Captain. This Captain must start to form a final crew that excludes the infiltrators from access to the cockpit.With each skirmish, a player sees one identity card held by another player and shares this knowledge (but eventually lies). So each player knows cards self and must value the claims of others. With all players knowing different things, the deductive logic gets deeper and deeper as you theorize about who is who, while also holding possible lies in mind! Will you make it back to the ground safely?

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• Editore: Gill & Macmillan Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0717135292
• ISBN 13: 9780717135295
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 224