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{{Short description|Board game}}
{{Infobox game
| name = 
| subject_name = Don't Break the Ice
| image_link = Don't Break the Ice (cropped).jpg
| image_caption = 
| publisher = [[Hasbro]]
| player 2 = 
| years = 1968-present
| setup_time = < 5 minutes
| playing_time = 3-8 minutes
| random_chance = None
| skills = [[Strategy game|Strategy]], [[dexterity|Manual dexterity]]
| footnotes = 
}}
'''''Don't Break the Ice''''' is a children's tabletop [[game]] for two to four players ages 3 and up. First marketed by [[Schaper Toys]] in 1968, the game was sold to [[Hasbro]] subsidiary [[Milton Bradley Company|Milton Bradley]] in 1986. It is still in production, and special editions were released in conjunction with the films ''[[Frozen (2013 film)|Frozen]]'' (2013) and ''[[Frozen II]]'' (2019).<ref name="Mansour2005">{{cite book |last1=Mansour |first1=David |title=From Abba to Zoom: A Pop Culture Encyclopedia of the Late 20th Century |date=2005 |publisher=[[Andrews McMeel Publishing]] |isbn=9780740751189 |page=128 |lccn=2004062782 |via=[[EBSCOhost]] Humanities Source}}</ref><ref name=Walsh>{{cite book | last=Walsh | first=Tim | title=Timeless Toys: Classic Toys and the Playmakers Who Created Them | publisher=Andrews McMeel Publishing | date=2005 | isbn=978-0-7407-5571-2 |oclc=859078778}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Don't Break the Ice Disney Frozen 2 Edition Game |publisher=Hasbro, Inc. |url=https://shop.hasbro.com/en-ca/product/don-t-break-the-ice-disney-frozen-2-edition-game:930F9583-6D40-1014-8BF0-9EFBF894F9D4 |accessdate=2022-01-17}}</ref>

==Game play==
The game is played with a set of plastic "ice blocks", a stand, and one miniature plastic hammer for each player. One ice block is larger than the rest, and has a plastic character standing on it - this varies from edition to edition, being either Phillip the Penguin, a man referred to as "Ice Man", or a polar bear.

To set up the game, the stand is turned upside down and the ice blocks placed into the frame, so that the shared uniform compression of the blocks pressed against each other will cause them to stay in place when the stand is turned upright. The players then take turns removing ice blocks by tapping with the hammers. The game ends when one player causes the block with the character figure to fall through. The player who took the turn before that one wins the game.

==References==
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== External links ==
* Hasbro's [https://www.hasbro.com/en-us/product/don-t-break-the-ice-game:7DF4542A-5056-9047-F5FA-87295ED41F5C Don't Break the Ice product page]
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[[Category:Board games introduced in 1968]]
[[Category:1960s toys]]
[[Category:1970s toys]]
[[Category:Board games of physical skill]]
[[Category:Children's board games]]
[[Category:Milton Bradley Company games]]
[[Category:Schaper Toys games]]
[[Category:Tabletop games]]