djeco card game piratatak - strategy game

The card game Piratatak from Djeco calls for adventurers with strategic insight! Whether bold or cautious, everyone follows their own strategy to build a boat. The first player to piece together the boat in their own color wins. Pick your strategy and race to complete your boat first.

Game setup:
Place the shuffled cards face down in the center of the table.

How to play:
Players take turns clockwise, drawing a card from the deck and showing it to the other players. Throughout the game, players must draw at least one card on their turn, after which they can decide to keep drawing or pass their turn.

There are 4 possibilities:
- The player draws a 'boat' card:
If the player has not started building a boat yet, they place this card in front of them and must build the boat in the color they just drew. (Except when another player is already building a boat in this color). In the following rounds, boat cards of this color allow them to build their boat; boat cards in other colors go to the right of the player. (They can set these aside or sell them later in the game). After drawing a boat card, the player can keep drawing cards.

- The player draws a cannon card:
The player places this to their right and can keep drawing cards.

- The player draws a gold coin card:
The player places this to their right and can keep drawing cards. Gold coin cards allow the player to buy a boat card from an opponent to finish their own boat. (3 gold coin cards in exchange for one boat card).

Please note:
- When a player wants to buy a boat card (one card per round), they do not draw a card.
- The opponent may not refuse the sale of a boat card.

- The player draws a pirate card:
Too bad! The player discards 3 cards from their hand + the pirate card into the discard pile, and their turn ends. (If they have fewer than 3 cards left, they give up all the cards they have left).
If the player owns a cannon card, they discard the pirate card + the cannon card instead. The player's turn then ends.

Drawing a card:
When no cards remain in the draw pile, one player takes all the discarded cards, shuffles them, and places them face down to form a new deck.

number of players: 2 - 4
age: 5 - 99
playing time: 15 min

The game includes 55 cards:

- 4x6 boat cards
- 20 gold coin cards
- 8 pirate cards
- 3 cannon cards.

This is item 9191502 in Het Mooiste Speelgoedboek 2026 from ilovespeelgoed.nl