Product Description

Choose a captain to guide your pirate ship through the high seas. Visit ports, fight off cannibals and collect loot while avoiding Davey Jones and his Kraken. Be the player with the most treasure at the end and you win! No batteries required. For 2 to 4 players.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2557 in Toys & Games
• Brand: Hasbro
• Model: 42941
• Dimensions: 15.80" h x 10.60" w x 2.60" l, 2.85 pounds

Features

• This version of the 40-year-old classic board game lets players plunder for treasure on the high seas!
• Steer your ship towards Islan Cruces, visit ports, raid ships, fight off cannibals and collect loot
• Don't fall prey to Davy Jones and the Kraken
• The player, or pirate, who plunders the most treasure wins
• For 2-6 players

Amazon.com
A variation on the original The Game of Life, this game is set offshore, far from the blissful suburbia of the 1960’s version. Based on the blockbuster movie Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, this updated The Game of Life requires players to navigate the high seas with wacky Captain Jack Sparrow. During this pirate adventure, players move their ship tokens around the board while collecting treasure, raiding ships, acquiring additional vessels, avoiding cannibals, and trying to steer clear of the mutinous Davy Jones and his pirate ship, the Kraken. Ultimately, players finish their sailing journey at Isla Cruces, where all must tally up their pirate booty to determine the winner. The game offers plenty of twists and turns and younger players will likely find it more exciting and engaging than the original. --Cristina Vaamonde

From the Manufacturer
Yo, ho, ho, a pirate's LIFE game for me! This version of the 40-year-old classic will shiver your timbers as you join Captain Jack Sparrow in a rolling adventure on the high seas! Steer your ship towards Islan Cruces, visit ports, raid ships, fight off cannibals (argh!) and collect loot. But don't fall prey to Davy Jones and the Kraken! The player ,or pirate, who plunders the most treasure wins.

Customer Reviews

easy game for up to 6 people
Just the facts:
-The game is almost completely chance based.
-Good for young players (7+ yrs old), helps to be able to read.
-Takes almost as long to play as monopoly when playing with 6 players.
-Gets old easily.
-Takes about 20 minutes to go over the directions and need to continuously reference them during your first game.
If you like monopoly then you will probably like this game.

My son likes the regular Life game much better
My 8-year-old son LOVES the regular Life game. He also loves Monopoly and Sorry. I recently bought the Pirates version of Life for our family, but after playing it, my son thinks this version is not as involving or fun as the original. He was disappointed with the Pirates version and now isn't enthusiastic about playing it. He's good at math for his age and likes the strategies required of the regular Life game better than this one.

As a parent, I was glad to hear him say, "In the other game, you get a job and a house and you compete to do things that really happen in life." In the Pirates version I suppose you learn how to be a better pirate. Hmmm. He said that he thinks there is more competition and strategy involved in the regular game, and I think those are the real reasons he likes the original better. A more minor point of his was that he also liked that the dollar amounts in the regular life game (couple of million dollars versus a couple of thousand dollars in the Pirates version). From what I've written, he sounds like a noncool kid who looks forward to working in a cubicle-ridden, Dilbert world, but that's not him. The Pirates version is simpler than regular Life, and he seemed bored by it.

Overall, he likes real competition in board games, and he felt there wasn't as much in this version. Like many kids, he loves acting like a pirate and loves action and sports. I thought he'd like this game more, so he surprised me with his response. We gave this version to a family who will enjoy it and we are buying the regular version for our home.

This game is fun for adults too!
If you are a fan of the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series, you will love this game!They have used the characters and themes from the movies in very clever ways.
I played LIFE as a child 40 years ago, and hadn't played since. My husband, son and daughter-in-law played one night and had a ball! My husband doesn't like board games, but enjoyed this one so much he wanted to play again, so this one is not just for kids!