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Skeleton Island

Dig up a treasure map

During a walk on the beach we find scraps of the treasure map and a gold coin and are now determined to find the treasure!

Sand cards show parts of a treasure map, halves and quarters in five colors, or pirate’s objects or gold coins. Those cards are shuffled, and then you turn over half of the stack and shuffle it into the other half so that the stack of cards shows half of the cards face-up and half of them face-down. Then you spread out the stack for a sandy beach or sand heap.

In your turn you decide on a pirate’s move or on a standard move. In a standard move you take one free, completely visible card from the beach and can keep it or put it back to the edge of the beach. If you do not keep it, you can choose a second free card, which you then must keep in any case. If you decide on a pirate’s move you can discard three cards previously collected in standard moves and then either steal a cad from another player or do two standard turns. Cards that you discard for this must be parts of treasure maps of different colors or pirate’s objects or a combination of both.

If you can assemble complete card of one color, regardless from how many parts, you take the island card of this color.

When all island cards are taken or when all cards have been taken from the beach you win with most points from island cards and gold coins.

This is a cute game for children or beginners; the treasure cards are easy to assemble, the choices of moves enable you to play quickly a bit of tactic can but need not happen using pirate’s moves - a nice game for in-between!

Players: 2-4

Age: 5+

Time: 20+

Designer: Florian Fay

Art: Olivier Fagnère

Price: ca. 13 Euro

Publisher: ilopeli 2012

Web: www.ilopeli.com

Genre: Card swapping and collecting game

Users: For children

Version: multi

Rules: de en fr it nl

In-game text: no

Comments:

Good topic for children

Sandy beach nicely simulated

Simple basic rules

Plays quickly

Compares to:

All set collecting games with swapping cards with a display

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 1

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0