Nice Games Jam: "Grog"

Nice Games Jam: "Grog"

Update: 2025-11-13
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This week, Lydia provides all the fun facts about living on a boat while your nice hosts develop a card game based around scurvy management!

Prompt
Create a pirate themed game about food and scurvy management.
Game type
Card game
Player count
2-4
Materials

Event deck

Resource Deck

Setup

Shuffle the event deck and the resource deck separately. Deal 5 cards from the resource deck to each player.

Rules
  • Card game
    • Set making
    • Need to create as many sets as you can to create grog, while preventing vermin from being in your hand
    • These resources will keep you going in phase 2 when pulling from port of call / event cards
    • Whoever is able to travel farthest (successfully draw the most port of call / event cards) wins
  • Beneficial food
    • Grog (face cards)
      • Rum - Jack
      • Sugar - Queen
      • Water - King
      • Limes - Ace
    • Salt meat/fish 
      • Pork or Cod (Hearts)
      • Salt (Diamonds)
    • Hard tack (Clubs)
    • Suet (Spades) (added to meat or hard tack to enhance it)
  • Vermin (clogs your hand and could cause problems in events)
    • Weevil 
    • Maggots
    • Rats
  • Rules
    • Each turn you have one action. You can either:
      • Draw a card
      • Play a complete set
    • After a certain number of cards (10 as default), you all go to sail and have ports of call events
      • Draw an event card each turn
  • Ports of call / Events? - you get a point for every port you successfully make it to. Certain cards when “won” enter your stack and give you extra points or mechanical advantage 
    • Windfall of resources 
      • Everyone draws 5 cards and makes stacks
    • Ship cat
      • The cat joins the most rat-infested ship (removes all rats from hand)
      • OR spend the most salt meat to attract it to your ship
    • Trade with each other
      • Draw 3 cards and give 1 card from hand to the player on your left. Make stacks
    • Injured shipmate
      • Spend water and salt from your hand
      • Spend maggots from your hand
    • Threat of scurvy
      • Spend grog
    • Weevil infestation! 
      • Lose a hard tack for every weevil in your hand. Discard those cards from your hand and stacks(?)
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Nice Games Jam: "Grog"

Nice Games Jam: "Grog"

Lydia, Stephen, and Mark