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Captain Kidd

Pirates searching for gems

And yet once again pirates are searching for treasures, this time they are specializing on gems and those gems need to correspond to their varying color preferences.

The game features 30 treasure chest tiles; these tiles all show an identical chest holding gold pieces and one colored gem on top, this gem shows one of six different colors, it is either white, orange, red, purple, blue or green. All those tiles are spread out face-up on the table, or arranged in a grid. A game master or the oldest player who should know colors very well already, places one pirate each on one gem of each color in a way that the pirate completely hides the gem in the chest.

In your turn you roll the color die and must then find the pirate that is standing on the gem of the color you rolled. If you did pick up the correct pirate you get the treasure chest tile and put the pirate on another gem of the same color. If you made a mistake, you put the pirate back in place and the turn passes to the next player. If there is no gem of the same color left on the table the pirate is set aside on the corresponding color card. When only three pirates remain in the game you win with most tiles.

At first glance Captain Kidd seems to be a simple memo game like so many others, but if you take a closer look you find that the game offers a very different challenge: You are not asked to remember different images, but you must remember the changing positions and the always new combinations of color and pirate position. This provides intensive training for attention span and memory as well as for memorizing and recognizing of colors.

Players: 2-6

Age: 3+

Time: 10+

Designer: Angelika and Jürgen Lange

Art: Heike Georgie

Price: ca. 20 Euro

Publisher: Beleduc 2012

Web: wwww.beleduc.de

Genre: Memo game

Users: For children

Version: multi

Rules: cn de en es fr it nl

In-game text: no

Comments:

Basically standard memo mechanism

Nice variation due to memorizing colors and positions

Changing positions train concentration and attention span

Compares to:

Basically all memo games

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 2

Memory (orange): 3

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 1

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0