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Capitán Flint

The parrot can lose you booty

Capitán Flint’s treasure has been found and you must calculate accurately how big a share you claim for yourself and you must be done before the parrot of Capitán Flint appears or maybe even his ghost. 85 loot cards showing jewels, pirates and Capitán Flint’s Ghost are prepared and placed face-down into the treasure chest. 24 sack cards showing jewels and colors are shuffled and each player receives four cards; you keep reshuffling and dealing until each player has at least three different kinds of sack cards.

As active player you draw a card from the treasure chest. For a chest symbol you draw another card, and maybe another on, etc.; the pirate hook has no effect. When a hat appears and there are then three hats on display you take all cards from the middle if you are first to put your hand on Parrot Parche. If a pirate appears, all cards showing his jewel are removed from the middle. After implementing the card you can use a sack card or draw a second card and deal with its effects. If, at that point a pirate’s hook is drawn, the turn ends. Otherwise, you can use a sack card after dealing with the second card’s effects. If you use a sack card you show it to all players and take all cards from the middle corresponding to the sack card, which is discarded. When Capitán Flint’s ghost appears or all are out of sack cards, you win with most points on your loot cards.

Yet another pirate’s treasure to loot, in a very nice version of the topic, offering a good mixture of reaction speed and risk – do I add another loot card and risk pirate or hat, or do I take my pearl sack card and grab the three pearls currently on offer?

Players: 2-6

Age: 8+

Time: 40+

Designer: Josep M. Allué

Artist: Natàlia Romero

Price: ca. 17 Euro

Publisher: Viravi Edicions 2015

Web: www.viravi.es

Genre: Pirates, treasure, reaction

Users: For families

Version: multi

Rules: ca de en es fr it

In-game text: no

Comments:

Standard topic, nicely implemented

Nice family game

Simple rules

Good mix of mechanisms

Compares to:

All pirate treasure games and games with reactions to card symbols

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): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 1