The Shipwreck Arcana
A silent shipwreck deduction game where you must figure out your own fate purely by watching how others act.
Who it's for
Hanabi and The Crew fans who love silent cooperative deduction and want another quick, thoughtful puzzle to master.
Not for you if…
You need to talk through your reasoning out loud, because the entire challenge here is figuring things out without words.
Vibe's take
quiet, cerebral, cooperative, tense, elegant
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About this game
The Shipwreck Arcana strands you and your allies in a drowned world where everyone's fate is quite literally hidden from themselves. You draw numbered fate tiles from a bag and play them onto shared cards, but the active player can't say a single word while doing it, so every choice of which fate to reveal and which card to play it on becomes your only language. Cards themselves decay as doom builds, turning from strict rules into precious one-time powers you'll wish you'd saved. It's a tight, cerebral deduction puzzle dressed as a shipwreck myth, the kind of quiet co-op where a single well-placed tile can save, or doom, the whole table.
Get it
from $28
By the numbers
Players
Duration
10–30 min
Ages 12+
Complexity
2.2 / 5 — LightBGG Rating
6.7/10
Rank #843
4.7k ratings
Published
2017
Language
Moderate text
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