🎯 The goal

Collect every ingredient on yer recipe map, then sail home and dock at the Isle of Tortuga. That fires up yer ovens — and the bake-off begins!

⚓ Setting sail

Each captain gets a recipe map (5 ingredients), a ship docked at the Isle of Tortuga, and a purse o' gold: the captain who goes first gets 2🌕, the next 3🌕, and so on down the line, so the later ye sail, the fuller yer purse. Each island holds only a few crates — and the fewer that are left, the dearer they get.

Yer turn: sail → act

🌬️ Wind. Each day the wind picks a direction and holds it for the whole table. Look at the compass: the big needle is this day's wind, and the ghost needle behind it is next day's. That forecast is never wrong, so ye can plan around it — save for a storm, which the compass warns ye of a day ahead but won't say which way it'll blow.

⛵ Sail. Sailing is free. The wind always blows 4 squares, and ye may sail that far in any mix of directions. The moment yer route bites into the wind, the whole move is 2. A hold of 5 ingredients or more is heavy: 1 square shorter still — the squares it costs ye show silver. Sail past other ships, but don't end on one.

⚓ Act — choose one:

Dock — tie up at an island's dock (one ship at a time!) and flip for yer fortune: heads ye strike buried treasure and take 5🌕; tails ye spend the turn scrubbin' the docks for 2🌕. Either way ye may then buy an ingredient, with the coin ye just earned. Stay as long as ye like and keep flipping.

💰 Ingredient prices rise. The first ingredient off a full island is 3🌕, the next 4🌕, and the last one 5🌕. Get there first, or pay for dawdling. Ye may buy ingredients that aren't on yer recipe — they make excellent bribe money.

🏴 Sold out is sold out. When an island's last ingredient is gone, the only ones left are in other captains' holds — take 'em in battle.

Battle — fight an adjacent ship! Pay 2🌕 for powder, then one broadside each: heads, yer shot lands. The ship with the wind behind it flips two coins and lands if either is heads. Both shots land? The captain with the lighter hold wins — equal holds, no winner. Both miss and the defender may slip away, free, or stay put; either way nobody wins, and there's no firing again. The winner takes one ingredient of their choosing, and nobody changes squares. Once a captain's ovens are lit they're beyond yer reach — rob 'em on the way home, or not at all. Ye can't battle a ship with an empty hold.

💰 Bribe. When a captain loads the cannons at ye — powder paid — ye may fight, or bribe 'em off: one ingredient from yer hold, or coins. They say yes or no, no haggling. Yes, and it's theirs — no battle. No, and the battle runs as ever. Nobody's safe for long: they may come back for more next turn. Ingredients ye don't need make fine bribe money.

End turn — nothing to do? End the turn. Ye'll spot a sea creature over the rail on the way — tap it to take its photograph, and every photograph scores at the end of the voyage.

The trade winds

The sea around the rim of the world flows in a mighty clockwise current, in arcs of varying length each game. Sail (or get blown) into it and yer instantly swept to the far corner of that stretch — a daring shortcut for captains in a hurry!

⛈️ Storms

The compass warns ye a full day ahead, so a storm is never a surprise. At the top of the day it blows every ship at once, 3 squares, all the same direction, before anyone acts. Land and other ships stop ye short — that's the whole of it. Nobody loses a turn, and a dock is just water the storm can push ye onto or off. Mind the rim, though: blown into the trade winds and yer swept clean across the sea.

The bake-off

Dock at Tortuga holdin' yer whole recipe and yer ovens light that very turn. Yer recipe's revealed, yer ingredient crates get shuffled before yer eyes — and ye must name them back in the recipe's own order, from memory. Pay 1🌕 to watch the shuffle again, as often as yer purse allows.

Crates ye place right lock in; the rest get shuffled again tomorrow, and ye bake again — yer attempt IS yer turn. The whole table watches every bake, so make it a show. Get every crate in its place and ye've baked it!

Winning

First captain to bake their full recipe wins the voyage. Two captains bakin' it on the same day? No contest — they bake together. Best Baker goes to whoever brought the most to the bench: most ingredients in the hold, then most coin, then whoever got home first.

May yer flips be heads and yer rivals be broke.

These rules live at playpastrypirates.com/rules.html — a page ye can send to a shipmate.