Cartagena (or Les évadés de Cartagena) is a board game that represents the famous 1672 pirate-led jailbreak from the fortress of Cartagena, supposedly becoming popular in the coves of the Caribbean.
With its very simple concept, this game of strategy gives each player a group of six pirates and the objective is to have all six escape through the tortuous underground passage that connects the fortress to the port, where a sloop is waiting for them...
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Cartagena (or Les évadés de Cartagena) is a board game that represents the famous 1672 pirate-led jailbreak from the fortress of Cartagena, supposedly becoming popular in the coves of the Caribbean.
With its very simple concept, this game of strategy gives each player a group of six pirates and the objective is to have all six escape through the tortuous underground passage that connects the fortress to the port, where a sloop is waiting for them.
Each player starts with six pirates in the Cartagena prison, and the first player to move all six pirates to the sloop is the winner.
The game board is made up of six (double-sided) sections, each of which has a different permutation of the same six pictures: daggers, pirate hats, pistols, bottles of rum, skulls, and skeleton keys. These six sections can be combined in any order, to make thousands of different games (although nowhere near as many as the 720 combinations theoretically possible).
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