Die Logik-Piraten 2014

Die Logik-Piraten, as the title suggests, combines pirates and logic puzzles — more specifically, pattern puzzles in which players need to figure out the item missing in a sequence.

On a player's turn, he looks at one of the puzzle cards — brown for easier puzzles, blue for harder — and chooses one of the four sequences on the card. He says what object fits into the sequence, then uses the pirate ship on the edge of the box to shoot marbles into the trays on one edge of the playing area. If he lands a marble in the tray below the correct missing item, as verified by the answer on the back of the card, he gets to draw a treasure tile. He can then stop or continue to draw treasure tiles — but if he draws a treasure of the same color as one he already drew that turn, he must return all of them to the play area and gain nothing that turn.

Once all the treasure tiles have been claimed, players compare stacks of tiles to see who wins. Die Logik-Piraten includes two sea monster figures, and players can choose to add one or both to the playing area to make it more difficult for pirates to shoot their cannonballs.