Game: Walk the Plank

Thread: Re: Not taken any tricks - Miss a round or Walk the Plank?

SassyRonin — 2008-07-07T19:35:10+00:00

Sorry about the vagueness of "until next time." Players who fail to take a trick are out of the game.

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swuyau — 2008-05-26T10:04:07+00:00

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Thread: Re: Not taken any tricks - Miss a round or Walk the Plank?

Walsfeo — 2008-05-16T12:47:10+00:00

In one place the game rules say "until next time" which is pretty vague and I took it to mean skip one battle. But in the Rounds After the First Round section it is pretty clear that players who don't get any tricks on one battle of a round are out for the rest of that round and come back in to play only for the next whole round, and do not rejoin for future battles in the same round.

I like the skip a battle idea better than miss the rest of the round, but I need to play it again to find out which way actually plays better. In many cases, with our small group, it wouldn't have made any difference. However with a larger play group it would have.

Thread: Not taken any tricks - Miss a round or Walk the Plank?

Wyckyd — 2008-05-16T11:56:50+00:00

I just listened to the OnBoardGame episode Pirate #1, by Donald Dennis, in which he reviews this game. After this I read the rules, and now I'm confused

The review said that, if you don't take any tricks, you don't participate in the next round, so at most you skip every other round. But in the rules it says that "you're out of the game till next time". The rules also say "the captain shuffles the entire deck and deals cards to each player who won at least one battle in the previous round".

Does this last part mean to deal cards to each player who won a battle and is still in the game? Or does 'skipping a round' automatically mean you skip the rest of the rounds, because you can't win battles if you are not playing?

Is "till next time" skip one round, or till next game?

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SassyRonin — 2007-06-22T22:56:53+00:00

Some actual Walk the Plank cards.

Thread: Re: SEA MONSTER question

SassyRonin — 2007-06-21T10:02:56+00:00

kimbo wrote:
Last round of the game; two players left. Each player gets one card. One player plays SEA MONSTER. What happens? No one wins the trick so both players lose the game and there is no winner? Or is is the winner decided by the tie-breaker rules? Or is the winner the player who played the SEA MONSTER and "retains control"?

No one wins the game--the sea monster has eaten the ship and both remaining crewmembers.

If in the same situation both players happen to have Walk the Plank, then the first one played takes the trick. (The player who won the tie-breaking duel in the previous battle wins the game.)

-Evan Sass

Thread: SEA MONSTER question

kimbo — 2007-06-18T18:48:45+00:00

Last round of the game; two players left. Each player gets one card. One player plays SEA MONSTER. What happens? No one wins the trick so both players lose the game and there is no winner? Or is is the winner decided by the tie-breaker rules? Or is the winner the player who played the SEA MONSTER and "retains control"?

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BoardsAndBits — 2007-06-13T23:57:53+00:00

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BoardsAndBits — 2007-06-13T23:45:21+00:00

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