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Annotated Games: Version 1.0, 3 playersThis game was played during the game testing of Find the Treasure - The Card Game! Player 1 went for an early placement of the pirate flag to be able to set up a path, player 2 tried to take advantage of the other players' placements and player 3 decided late where to place the pirate flag to be able to start the treasure phase first. The cards are represented by colors (blue=swamp, brown=fortress, gray=mountain, green=jungle, red=totem, yellow=desert) and numbers (1=topas, 2=ruby, 3=diamond). Cards played as clue cards are marked with a border. Starting hands
Map phase1st placement
Player 1 places her pirate marker immediately, planning to place a yellow card as a map card 3 cards away and keep the yellow 3-card. Player 2 places a gray card in the opposite corner, hoping to pick it up with her other gray card following Player 1's move. Player 3 awaits what the map will end up like and play a low value card (a brown 1-card). 2nd placement
Player 1 proceeds with her plan and places a yellow 1-card 3 spaces away from the pirate marker. Player 2 places a blue 1-card 2 spaces away from the recently placed white 2-card and intends to lay her remaining white and blue cards next. Player 3 keeps playing cautiously and place another 1-card. 3rd placement
Player 1 places her 1st clue card: the yellow 3-card. Player 2 places her pirate marker where it will enable her to reach the brown 1-card with the white 2-card (which she hopes to pick up early in the treasure phase). Player 3 takes the opportunity to place her pirate marker, knowing that she'll go first, in a position where she can use her blue 3-card. 4th placement
Player 1 places a green 2-card as her 2nd clue card, hoping to find a suitable place for the matching green 1-card later. Player 2 and player 3 place their brown 2-card and 3-card respectively as clue cards. 5th placement
Player 1 places her green 2-card as planned. Player 2 places her gray 3-card as her 2nd clue. Player 3 places waits with her 2nd clue card and places what she expects is a useless card to the other players: a red 2-card in the corner. 6th placement
Player 1 and 2 are happy with their placements and just place their remaining cards (red 1 and blue 2) where they don't expect them to be of any use for the other players. Player 3 finds no good use for her remaining cards and decide to place the more flexible yellow 2-card as a clue. 7th placement
In the last placement rounds, all the players place their last cards to the map and prepare for the treasure phase. Treasure Phase1st movement
Player 3 starts the treasure phase and plays her blue 3-card to pick up a diamond. Player 2 plays her brown 2-card to pick up a ruby, hoping to pick up a diamond after player 1's expected move. Player 1 plays her yellow 3-card to pick up a diamond. 2nd movement
Player 3 finds herself unable to pick up a treasure so she moves to the red 1-card to be able to pick up a diamond with her blue 1-card next. Player plays her white 3-card to pick up a diamond as planned. Player 1 sneaks in and interrupts player 3's plan by playing a green 2-card and pick up a ruby. 3rd movement
Player 3 finds another way to pick up a diamond by playing a red 1-card. This gives player 2 an opportunity to pick up a topas by playing a brown 1-card. Player 1 would like to play her green 2-card to pick up a diamond but since there are none left, she plays a yellow 1-card and picks up a topas instead. 4th movement
Again, player 3 finds herself without moves and moves to the red 2-card to be able to pick up a topas with her blue 1-card next movement. However, this paves the way for player 2, who picks up a ruby by playing a brown 2-card. This leaves player 1 completely blocked without even an option to get rid of her soon useless 2-card and hence she passes. 5th movement
Player 3 manages to pick up a topas as planned by playing her blue 1-card. It's now player 2's turn to be out of options but by playing a white 2-card, she's able to pick up a brown 1-card that may give her a topas next movement. Player 1 is also out of options and decides to play her green 3-card to pick up a blue 1-card, which gives her a 1-card and a 2-card to choose between next movement. 6th movement
Player 3 plays her red 2-card to pick up the last ruby. This also denies player 2 the ability to play her brown 1-card and pick up a topas. She plays it anyway to pick up a yellow 1-card but will she have time to play it? Player 1 is out of contest but tries to improve her score by playing a blue 1-card to pick up a white 1-card. Unfortunately it's too late, since player is unable to pick up a treasure next movement and with 3 consecutive actions without finding treasures, the last treasure is discarded and the game ends. Player 2 and 3 both found 4 treasures each but player 3's tie-breaking score is 9 against player 2's score of 8. |
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