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Island Trader box art
2008 Ranked #15,802

Island Trader

A logistics puzzle game has traders sail between randomly arranged islands, delivering wanted supplies to gain support and resources. Each delivery helps enable later routes, while the changing map creates a fresh planning challenge every game.

Card Game Nautical Modular Board Hand Management

Players

1-2

Play time

Not listed

Age

?+

Complexity

1.73/5

Rating

6.27

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 4.1/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.7/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.4/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.7/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

The ocean is full of little islands that need supply. Use your ship in order to bring them the supply they want, this will gain you the island support and more resources that will help you help the other islands.

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The ocean is full of little islands that need supply. Use your ship in order to bring them the supply they want, this will gain you the island support and more resources that will help you help the other islands. The game map is randomly generated every game so new challenge awaits you every time. The layout of the map can also set the difficulty of the game. The game can be played with a single player. When played like this it is a puzzle, where the player tries to reach all the islands. This is a free Print and Play game.

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Play and group

Players
1–2
Best with
1–2
Play time
30 min
Complexity
1.7/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
Gilad Yarnitzky

Artists

1
Gilad Yarnitzky

Publishers

1
(Web published)

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