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Captain Jack's Gold

An exciting game with simple rules for wild pirates. For hours now, you've been listening to stories from old sea dogs about daring pirates and heavily laden merchant ships that were caught in stormy waters in the Caribbean. You perked up, though, when one sailor told you about C...

Players

2-4

Time

?-?

Age

8+

Weight

1.5

Rating

6.01

Should this hit the table?

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Moderate level of interaction with a mix of direct and strategic confrontation, frequent interaction, and limited emphasis on cooperation.

Teach 2.3

Teaching signal

Replay 3.9

High replayability

Interaction 3.7

Highly interactive

Scaling 3.5

Scales well

Strategy 4.5

Deep strategy

Control 3.0

Luck-sensitive

Table feel

Moderate level of interaction with a mix of direct and strategic confrontation, frequent interaction, and limited emphasis on cooperation.

Replay value

Captain Jack's Gold has a high replayability score due to its high variability gameboard, strategic depth, and scalability. The presence of expansions adds to its replay value. While the easiness to learn score is average, the overall replayability score is still strong.

Luck profile

Captain Jack's Gold has a moderate influence of luck. Random elements like dice rolls and card draws have a notable but not exclusive impact on the game outcome. Players have some ability to mitigate randomness through strategic decisions and planning. The game outcome is a balanced mix of luck and strategy, with neither element dominating. Overall, Captain Jack's Gold offers a fair balance between luck and player agency.

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An exciting game with simple rules for wild pirates. For hours now, you've been listening to stories from old sea dogs about daring pirates and heavily laden merchant ships that were caught in stormy waters in the Caribbean. You perked up, though, when one sailor told you about Captain Jack's legendary pirate treasure and presented you with a tempting offer: Whoever hands over the most gold coins to him will receive a map to Jack's treasure. Now it's time to board your ships, let loose the lines and set sail! You select one of three piles with cards and uncover the highest card. These card can do it would drive out, in order to collect sails and cannons for your ship. Because: If your ship has many sails, can you in your play course far sails and many new cards uncover. With many cannons you have better chances to capture stranger of ships. If you did not drive out card can or want, you uncover simply still one card. A goal is to be captured it raw materials or ships and exchanged these against gold coins.

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Designers

2
Christian Fiore Knut Happel

Artists

1
Christian Fiore

Publishers

1
Noris Spiele

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