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Big Pirate

This hidden-movement chase game has sailors carry treasure to their ship or hide among coconut trees while a pirate hunts them. The sailors win by escaping with treasure, but the pirate wins by catching every sailor first.

Children's Children's Game Dice Hand Management Dice Rolling

Players

2-4

Play time

Not listed

Age

5+

Complexity

1.25/5

Rating

6.01

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.4/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 4.0/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.6/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.0/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

Goal of the game: The players who play with a sailor have to reach his ship with the treasure of the Big Pirate (they can also hide behind the coco trees); the player who plays the Big Pirate has to catch the sailors to win.

Core mechanisms

Key systems that shape the decisions players make.

Dice Rolling

Roll dice to introduce uncertainty into actions, production, movement, or resolution.
Hand Management

Time and sequence a limited hand of cards to preserve future options.
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Goal of the game: The players who play with a sailor have to reach his ship with the treasure of the Big Pirate (they can also hide behind the coco trees); the player who plays the Big Pirate has to catch the sailors to win. Components of the game: 1 Big Pirate painted plastic figurine 3 painted plastic sailor figurines 3 treasures 1 board (30x28cm) depicting an island 7 plastic coconut trees 2 dice 13 cards

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Type

1
Children's

Category

3
Children's Game Dice Pirates

Mechanism

2
Dice Rolling Hand Management

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Game and edition data

All specifications (5)

Play and group

Players
2–4
Best with
3–4
Play time
20 min
Age
5+
Complexity
1.3/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

2
Grégory Kirszbaum Alex Sanders

Artists

1
Alex Sanders

Publishers

1
Djeco

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