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In 1820, there were uprisings in Peru, so the Spanish government decided to move its treasure from Lima to Mexico for safekeeping. The crew of the ship transporting the loot turned pirate and hid the treasure on the Island of Cocos. Now YOU are trying to find it, but you'll need to share some information with your fellow pirates to make sure you find it before the Spanish catch you!
In the challenging deduction board game Loot of Lima, the Island of Cocos has 24 locations: 8 on the shore, 8 in the forest, and 8 in the mountains; the treasure is hidden in two of these locations. The game has a token for each of these locations, and at the start of the game, two tokens as placed back in the box (with these tokens indicating where the treasure is hidden). The rest of the tokens are then passed out evenly to the players; these represent places you have already searched and know where the treasure is not hidden.
Each turn, players roll three 12-sided dice to determine which questions they can ask their opponents. For example, how many locations have you searched between the southeast and the northwest? Or, how many locations in the forest have you searched between the west and the south? Players use the answers to these questions to build overlapping clues, figure out all the locations that have already been searched, and eventually discover which locations haven't been searched (and thus where the treasure is hidden).
—description from the designer
- treasure hunt through deduction
- pirate treasure hunt; deduction
- minimal components, deduction-driven
- Treasure Island
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Deduction — players deduce treasure locations via questions and terrain placement
- dice-based questioning — dice dictate types of questions to narrow down locations
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- Fantastic deduction experience.
- Highly recommended for deduction lovers.
- Unique gameplay compared to other deduction games.
- Fun to play cooperatively.
- Offers many scenarios for solo/two-player modes.
- The challenging nature makes it engaging.
- Very difficult, even for experienced players.
- Requires absolutely vital note-taking.
- Can be long due to the slow drip of information.
- Potential for tediousness in solo/two-player modes.
- The booklet for solo/two-player modes may contain incorrect information.
- The process of looking up answers can be multi-step and tedious.
- Locating buried treasure through deduction.
- An island with buried treasure.
- Clue
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Deduction — Players use dice rolls and verbal questions to deduce the locations of two missing treasure tokens.
- Dice Rolling — Dice rolls determine the type of terrain and direction for asking questions.
- Hidden Information — Some information is private (tokens held), while other information is public (answers to questions).
- Set Collection — Players start with some tokens that are not the treasure locations, helping to narrow down possibilities.
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- if our videos seem to be uh very close together within the next couple of weeks just know that we had one of our hard drives fail in the past week and some of the videos that we wanted to release weren't able to be released
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- it's now private it is now a private video we don't do unboxings
- we're just basically showing you uh images of what the first setup looks like so it doesn't really spoil anything
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- A cool deduction game.
- Pure deduction, not social deduction.
- The system is very cool.
- The original printing of the first edition may have flaws; using the app or a later edition is recommended.
- Finding buried treasure
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Book/App Integration — A large book (or optional app) is used to check guesses and provide feedback.
- Deduction — Players use logic to deduce the location of buried treasure based on clues and elimination.
- Logic puzzles — The game involves solving logic puzzles to determine coordinates.
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