Episode Details

Nice Games Jam: "Grog"

Episode 415 Published 7 months, 1 week ago

This week, Lydia provides all the fun facts about living on a boat while your nice hosts develop a card game based around scurvy management!

Prompt

Create a pirate themed game about food and scurvy management.

Game type

Card game

Player count

2-4

Materials

Event deck

Resource Deck

Setup

Shuffle the event deck and the resource deck separately. Deal 5 cards from the resource deck to each player.

Rules

Card game
- Set making
- Need to create as many sets as you can to create grog, while preventing vermin from being in your hand
- These resources will keep you going in phase 2 when pulling from port of call / event cards
- Whoever is able to travel farthest (successfully draw the most port of call / event cards) wins
Beneficial food
- Grog (face cards)
  - Rum - Jack
  - Sugar - Queen
  - Water - King
  - Limes - Ace
- Salt meat/fish
  - Pork or Cod (Hearts)
  - Salt (Diamonds)