In this solo playing-card game, you will build ships manned by one of three factions: pirates (spades), sailors (clubs), and ghosts (hearts.) Diamonds represent treasure. As each crew member is added to a ship the the ship can take one of three actions: collecting treasure, transferring crew members, or attacking another ship to win its treasure. Pirates defeat sailors, sailors defeat ghosts (by punching them, as Popeye was known to do,) and ghosts defeat pirates (pirates are superstitious.) Kings and Queens are royals who confer extra actions on a ship, or allow ships to change factions. Jokers are letters of marque. The goal of the game is for one ship to get all the treasure.

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