Piraten Kapern

What is Piraten Kapern

Piraten Kapern ("Pirate Capers") is the German version of the 2011 game Otsarot o Tsarot, published by Shafir Games in Hebrew and English. It's part of a line of combined dice-and-card games that publisher AMIGO Spiel introduced in 2012.

As you might expect with a game titled Piraten Kapern, players must set off in search of treasure, pushing themselves to find as much as possible without losing their heads.

At the start of a turn, the active player rolls the eight special dice. He must set aside any skulls rolled, and his turn ends immediately with no score if he rolls a third skull. The player is free to set aside any number of other dice, rerolling the rest. He may continue to do this until the skulls get him or he stops. He then scores for dice combinations, with a three-of-a-kind earning 100 points, a four-of-a-kind 200 points, and so on all the way up to an eight-of-a-kind earning 4,000 points. Each gold or diamond showing is worth 100 points on its own. A player earns a 500 point bonus if all eight dice score.

If a player is not able to set aside any valid dice, all points are lost.

Game details

Players

2–5

Age

+8

Duration

30 min

Difficulty

Light

Type

Board game

Year

2012

Mechanics

Dice Rolling · Push Your Luck · Re-rolling and Locking

Categories

Card Game · Dice · Pirates

Designer

Haim Shafir

Publisher

Mercurio · 999 Games · AMIGO · Gigamic