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LastDodo number
170571
Area
Board games
Title
Koop- en Kaapvaartspel
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Kind of game
Collection / set
Number in collection
Year
1982
Number of players
2-4
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The players try to earn as many ducats as possible by buying or hijacking coffee, tea, tobacco or other goods and selling them with a lot of profit. The player who has the most ducats after the last load has been sold is the winner. At the start of the game, each player receives a ship, manned with a captain and crew and loaded with trade goods. Whenever it is a player's turn, he may move his ship at a certain speed. He is trying to reach ports to buy or sell goods. He tries to reach other ships to hijack goods. In the meantime, he must try to avoid storms and dangers. Each time a player takes a turn, a chance card is turned, which may result in favorable winds helping him or being hit by storm, mutiny or scurvy. Content: - game board - 6 dice - 16 sails - 8 feet for the sails - 1 storm token - 1 scurvy token - 23 disaster maps - 8 "Before the Wind" cards - 1 price card - 1 Cape card - money notes in various denominations - 9 loads of tea - 9 loads of coffee - 9 loads of tobacco - 32 loads of trade goods - game rules Also published under the name 'Batavia'. Published on the occasion of Van Nelle 200 years 1782-1992

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