Family                 

Alter                    8

Spezial                

Captain Jack’s Gold

LETTER OF MARQUE, gold and treasure maps

Buccaneers, pirates and gold coins – who would not want to go hunting for booty? The cards are stacked separately for Coast, Ship Passage, High Seas and Letter of Marque , the ships sit next to the pirate’s island. Each ship is equipped with 2 sails and 1 cannon to start with, the number of sails determines the number of cards you can turn up, the number of cannons determines the number of dice rolls to capture a ship.

In your turn you choose a stack, turn up the top card and decide if you want to take the card. If not, you go on turning up cards until you reached your maximum or turn up a Calm card. Cards you take you can place next to your ship board up to a maximum of 7 cards. Ship cards must be captured. To do so you must roll the cannon value of the ship with a dice roll or top the cannon value. If you cannot manage this you lose a card chosen by your left neighbor. In the harbour you can hand in previously collected flags and goods to meet one of the letters of merque on display or get pirate coins. Three treasure cards get you pirate coins, too.

With the corresponding card you can capture a ship of another player in the same region. If you manage the higher total with the number of rolls allowed by the number of cannons on your ship you win the battle. If you have collected the biggest booty at the end of the game you win and receive Captain Jack’s Treasure Map.

A game with fantastic components and simple rules; it can be turned into a challenging tactic game with the additional rules. These bring changes in battles and introduce storms, sea monsters, seamen and rum.

Spieler         : 2-4

Alter            : ages 8 and up

Dauer           : ca. 30 min

Autor           : Christian Fiore, Knut Happel

Grafik          : Christian Fiore, Das Format

Titel englisch          : -

Preis            : ca. 25,00 Euro

Verlag          : Noris Spiele 2010

                     www.noris-spiele.de

Genre                    : Aquisition game with a pirate topic

Zielgruppe             : For families

Mechanismen         : Collect flags, wares and gold

Kommentar:

Fantastic components

Treasure chest for a game box

Beautiful family game

Expansion rules for a more challenging game

Vergleichbar:

All games with a pirate topic, e.g. Freibeuter der Karibik or Cartagena Die Goldinsel

Zufall                            2

Taktik                  1

Strategie__                 

Kreativität          

Wissen_

Gedächtnis         

Kommunikation  

Interaktion                   3

Geschicklichkeit 

Action                  2