Overview
At a glance
Is this game right for my group?
ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.
Harder to teach
High replayability
Highly interactive
Scales well
Deep strategy
How it plays
How does it play?
Seeking wealth and treasures, pirates are capable of doing everything. In Piratas!
Core mechanisms
Key systems that shape the decisions players make.
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Seeking wealth and treasures, pirates are capable of doing everything. In Piratas! you're a captain of a pirate ship and must gather enough treasure before your opponents, even if that requires robbing, pillaging and fighting! The first to collect 5 treasures and succeed in not being robbed will be acknowledged as the great legend of the 7 seas. During the turn, the player can take 2 actions, which are: playing a card and using its ability, buying a card from the deck or declaring a duel with another player. If a player chooses to duel with another one, they need to choose the amount of cannons they will use and the corresponding fired cannonballs, with the winner killing all the opponent's pirates and getting to see and pick one card from the loser's hand. Other card actions include stealing treasures, having a parrot to copy the action of another player, pillaging, fleeing from combat or even drowning another player's pirate!