SKALLYWAGGS

Mix-n-Match Pyrate Card Game

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You've found the Home of Skallywaggs the mix-n-match pirate card game.

So what exactly is Skallywaggs?
It's a stand-alone card game for 2 to 4 players. Be the first to set sail by building a crew of rascally rogues before your opponents can complete their own collection of misfits. You'll need both luck and skill. But beware! This is Skallywaggs, and every pirate worth his parrot knows the tide is quick to turn. There's Scurvy, Hurricanes, and Cursed Sailors aboard, and if you can't batten the hatches your skallywaggs may be hauled off in irons or sent to Parley with Davy Jones.

The game comes complete in one box, with all 120 cards, and instructions for two to four players. The deck consists of 90 unique, wonderfully illustrated body parts (30 heads, 30 chests, 30 legs) that fit together to build thousands of different characters, and 30 event cards that add peril to every turn. Skallywaggs is a sure hit for hours of cutthroat fun.

Here's a few remarks from those that have played before ye:

by Capt. Bilgemunky

What, no ships? No pillaging? And you never even leave port until the very end? Bloody 'eck, what kind of pirate game is this? Short answer: A drop-dead-in-your-linens-and-flog-a-seagull-for-grins fantastic one.

Skallywaggs is a top-notch mix-n-match card game where you struggle to build a crew so you can set sail while doing your devil-best to keep your opponents from doing the same. Crew members are assembled from a multitude of three-card combinations (head, torso, legs) to make a near endless variety of cut-throats. But mind you, not all pirates are created equal, and some combinations can create characters that will win you a distinct advantage, while still others might bring your crew to a screaching halt.

Aside from character cards, the deck is also full of event cards. These are used to play on yourself or on others, depending on the nature of the card and your personal inclination. And this is when the fun starts as you utilize event cards to build up your own crew while decimating your opponents'. Since the crew-members are so unique it's easy to develop some attachment to them during the game, which made it all the more satisfying when I used a series of Man Overboard and Press Gang cards to rip my son's crew in half (he responded in kind, though, by inflicting me with a severe case of Scurvy&Pox.)

Skallywaggs is unique in the world of pirate-themed table-top games. The concept is highly original, gameplay is challenging and well-paced, and the whole thing is brimming with personality. Gathering up crewmembers you can actually identify by name lends itself well to an emotional investment - in most games your opponent might steal a few doubloons, but only in Skallywaggs can they make off with your buxom waitress, Sweet Cider Tripp, or abscond with your mighty Cap'n Wargun - these are losses that cut to the quick, enflame passions, and make for a lively evening of table-top skullduggery.

and a few more in parts:

"Gathering your Pi-ra-te crew" by Charles A. Smith (Greybear)
"Have you ever flipped through a picture book that allows you to change body parts so you can, for example, combine an iguana head with a snake body and an alligator tail?... Now we have the same fundamental mechanic reincarnated for childlike grownups in the card game Skallywaggs ..." 


"Few card games I know have such a fun ending." by Matthew Webster (bigcheese)
"...In both the 2- and 3-player games I have played there has always been a frantic finale with different players each trying to set sail while thwarting their opponents. Skallywaggs always goes out with a fight..." 



Mark your almanac and check your tide tables!
With the stormy seas of winter upon us we've been brushing up on 'er game'n  skills, hows about YOU?

SKALLYWAGGS - $18.00