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2017 Ranked #15,047

Rattaneer

Players secretly choose action locations to hire pirates, loot boats, earn money, and turn plunder into victory points. Shared selection can deny desired actions, so reading rivals matters before committing.

Card Game Pirates Simultaneous Action Selection

Players

2-5

Play time

30-45 min

Age

10+

Complexity

2/5

Rating

6.60

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

At a glance

Is this game right for my group?

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 4.4/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

In Rattaneer, players want to become boss of the mouse pirates, but to do so they must earn money, hire pirates, loot boats, then convert that loot to victory points.

Core mechanisms

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In Rattaneer, players want to become boss of the mouse pirates, but to do so they must earn money, hire pirates, loot boats, then convert that loot to victory points. Each round, players secretly select where they want to take actions on the row of eleven tiles: the day laborer, the tavern, the docks, the water, and the looting ship. Whether you'll get to take all of those actions depends on what everyone else does, so choose wisely!

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Game and edition data

All specifications (5)

Play and group

Players
2–5
Best with
3–5
Play time
30–45 min
Age
10+
Complexity
2.0/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
Hisashi Hayashi

Artists

1
Ryo Nyamo

Publishers

1
OKAZU Brand

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