Description
Design by Rob Couch
Illustrated by Artist Mary Bueno
Rulebook | Videos | Kickstarter
Each round, all players must play either a Treasure card or an Octopus card. The highest number Treasure card wins the round, but an Octopus beats all Treasure cards. Treasure cards have 1-3 stars on the bottom of each card. The player with the most stars at the end of the game is the winner!
Game Setup
To start, select your favorite Octopus and take all 3 matching cards. Place them face up on their “awake” side.
Shuffle the Treasure cards and deal them out based on the number of players:
2-4 Players: Each gets 8 Treasure cards.
5 Players: Each gets 7 Treasure cards.
6 Players: Each gets 5 Treasure cards.
The player with the longest arms goes first!
How to Play
The starting player will choose a card to put down, then play passes to the left. Each round the starting player rotates. High number treasure cards win the round, but an Octopus is higher than all treasure cards.
If two or more players use Octopus cards, a tentacle tangle takes place! During a tangle, each player involved puts down a low number card, then draws off the top of the deck.
If the card you draw is higher than your starting card, you’re still in. If the card drawn was lower, you’re out, and your treasures are up for grabs!
You can press your luck and try for multiple treasures during the tangle, but you might lose everything if you aren’t careful.
If you’re not feeling lucky, you can take the cards you’ve earned so far and leave the tangle, but the last player in gets all remaining treasure!
If all players who joined the tangle draw lower cards and go out, the player with the highest number who wasn’t in the tangle takes them all!
The player with the most stars at the end of the game is the winner!
