Walk the Plank!

Secretly stack three actions, then watch them play out in order as pirates shove each other off the plank.

Designers: Jared Tinney, Shane Steely
Published by: Cosmodrome Games
Editions by: Mayday Games

In Walk the Plank! you are the worst pirate in a captain's crew: lazy, stupid and barely worth the rum. The captain will keep only two of you, so you fight it out by shoving the others' pirates off the end of the plank while keeping yours alive. Each round you secretly stack three of your ten action cards, then everybody reveals and plays them one at a time, whatever has gone wrong in the meantime. Plan a shove for move three and your target may by then be elsewhere, but the shove still happens. Skull cards are strong but stay on the table the round after. A 2013 card game for three to five, about twenty minutes.

Stack three secret action cards per roundActions play out in order, no matter whatSkull cards stay on the table for another round

Who it's for

You like programming games where plans fall apart and laughing at your own mistakes is half the fun. Fine for ages six and up.

Not for you if…

You want a calm, tidy planning game. Here the plan is wrong by round's end and that is the joke.

Vibe's take

Planning-then-chaos comedy. Everyone is sure of their plan until the first card flips, and then you watch your own shove hit thin air.