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Buccaneer
English edition box cover
Box front with new name "The Pirates"
Four types of booty. The quantity of each type is shown on the tile
Buccaneer
Arrghhh, There Be Pirates Here!
Player pirate pieces. These come in 5 colours (not shown - black and yellow)
Pretty nice cardboard coins in 3 denominations
A selection of the ships

Buccaneer (2006)

Players
3–5
Best: 4, 5
Playing time
30–30 min
Age
8+
6.26
Average rating
1,847
Ratings
1.58/5
Weight
#4555
BGG rank
Top 5,000
Alternate names:Kalóztámadás +3 more
Designer:Stefan Dorra
Artist:Jo Hartwig
Publisher:Queen Games +1 more
Average rating, ratings count, weight and rank are sourced from BoardGameGeek (BGG).
Game DNA
  • This game: Strategy 5, Luck 5, Interaction 7, Complexity 3.2, Theme 5
Strategy5.0
Luck5.0
Interaction7.0
Complexity3.2
Theme5.0

This game's strategy, luck, interaction, complexity and theme.

PiratesAuction / BiddingMemory

Overview

Each player starts with five chips. To take one of the ship cards, you have to have a stack of chips, the minimum number of chips for each ship being shown on the card. Making the stacks higher is the game's signature gimmick (originating in Die Safeknacker): On your turn, you can take one of your chips, or one of your stacks, and put it on top of one chip or stack of another player, and are then the proud owner of the entire stack. Trouble is, you can't SPEND the stack on a ship until your next turn, by which time somebody else may have taken it away from you by the same process.

Scoring in Die Safeknacker was very streamlined and elegant: You scored the value of the card when you took it and paid off the other players the values of their chips in your stack. In this new version there are complications (tokens to collect, a consolation prize for the player next to the top in the stack) which give you a little more to think about.

Re-implements:

Die Safeknacker

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