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2017 Ranked #22,839

Potato Pirates

Players use programming concepts to attack rivals in a pirate-themed card game, working to save a trapped king and win. Functions, loops, and conditionals strengthen attacks, while looting and hijacking create disruptive shortcuts to victory.

Adventure Children's Game Action Queue Player Elimination

Players

3-6

Play time

20-45 min

Age

7+

Complexity

1.57/5

Rating

5.59

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.3/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 4.0/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.7/5

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?

Potato Pirates is a lethal combination of potatoes, programming, and piracy rolled into an epic card game.

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Potato Pirates is a lethal combination of potatoes, programming, and piracy rolled into an epic card game. Roast, mash, or fry your opponents and send them down to Davy Jones' locker — but before you can reign terror on the high seas, you have to first master the art of potato war. Use programming concepts such as functions, loops, and conditionals to fortify your attacks. If that's not enough, you could just loot and hijack your way to victory by saving Potato King from the deadlock of doom. When in need, summon the Kraken to your aid and deny everything...

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Play and group

Players
3–6
Best with
2
Play time
20–45 min
Age
7+
Complexity
1.6/5
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Credits

Designers

4
Aditya Batura Seah Tat Leong Fendy Lieanata Lim Jia Xuan

Artists

1
Tan Qing Feng Chester

Publishers

2
(Self-Published) ThinkFun

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