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Trade Winds box art
1960 Ranked #17,088

Trade Winds

A pirate treasure-collection game where players seek enough points to win while sailing against rival ships. Attacking and robbing opponents turns every haul into a target and makes direct confrontation central to progress.

Pirates

Players

2-6

Play time

Not listed

Age

8+

Complexity

1.6/5

Rating

6.91

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 3.8/5

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?

In Trade Winds, players collect treasure to accumulate enough points to win. Players can attack and rob other players ships. This appears to be a derivation of Waddingtons's Buccaneer game.

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Category

1
Pirates

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Game and edition data

All specifications (5)

Play and group

Players
2–6
Best with
3–6
Play time
90 min
Age
8+
Complexity
1.6/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
(Uncredited)

Publishers

1
Parker Brothers

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