John Silver

In this tactical card placement game there are sets with treasure chests, seamen and ships with one neutral symbol card each, 5 jokers, 2x4 cards with characters. The symbol cards begin a row, the character cards a column for placement. Each player has 6 cards, one of them must be an apple card at the beginning. In his turn a player places a card in any column, per column only one card of a kind with the exception of jokers. A player placing apples may draw a card or pick one from the display, but without apples. Four cards in a row are scored, the second lowest card goes to the lowest, the second highest card to the highest, those two players take the cards. The game ends when no score is possible, taken cards are sorted, apple cards go to the left neighbour, the player with the highest score from apples and gold coins minus Black Spot scores wins the game.

Card game * 2-4 players from age 10 * Designer: Martin Schlegel * Illustration/Layout: Malte Olbertz, Birgit Stolte * 35005 4, Eggert, Germany, 2006 *** Eggert Spiele * www.eggertspiele.de