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El Capitan

Captain is testing his crew

The old pirate captain is looking for a successor and tests his crew for quick reactions and good memory. A stack of Captain’s cards including three special cards is prepared. Each player shuffles his set of 12 Pirate cards and displays them openly in a 3x4 grid. All have one minute to memorize the grid, then the cards are turned over.

In your turn you reveal the top Captain’s card and all put their ship as fast as possible on the card in the grid that they think corresponds to the Captain’s card. When the ship is placed you put your hand on the stack of Captain’s cards. When all are done, the fastest one -  his hand is at the bottom of the stack – the rank card “First”, the next one the card “Second” and the slowest – his hand is on top – gets the rank card “Last”. All others do not receive a card. Then cards under ships are compared to the Captain’s card. All that did not manage a match must discard a gold coin. All others get gold coins in relation to their rank: three for „First“, two for „Second“, one if you did not get a card, and if you got „Last“ you get no coin. When the card “Storm” is revealed, all take up their grid, reshuffle it and lay it out again. After one minute the cards are turned over again. For the “”Spyglass” you may look at a card in your grid and for the “Pirate Flag” you may switch two cards in another player’s grid. When all Captain’s cards have been revealed, you win with most gold coins.

Nothing new, but a super mix of memo and quick reactions, spruced up by the special cards, and as usual in a game by Gigamic, you can enjoy the very pretty components.

Players: 2-6

Age: 6+

Time: 20+

Designer: Charlotte Fillonneau

Artist: Loic Billiau

Price: ca. 20 Euro

Publisher: Gigamic 2015 / Asmodee

Web: www.asmodee.de

Genre: Memo, reaction

Users: For families

Version: multi

Rules: de en fr + 15 languages

In-game text: no

Comments:

Variants listed

Nice components

Good mix of mechanisms

Very nice family game

Compares to:

Memo and reaction games

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 3

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0