Game Info
Year
2023
Players
1-4
Age
10+
Playtime
45 min
Complexity
1.8/5
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Description
Pirate tea party game where pirates compete to serve their Captain the best afternoon tea with rule-breaking actions
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Review at 0:17 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Beautifully illustrated and visually appealing artwork.
- Simple and quick gameplay suitable for a wide audience.
- Handy and useful tokens (monkey, parrot, cannon) that add to the game.
- Satisfying mechanic of combining dishes to meet requirements.
- Engaging decision-making regarding action spot selection.
- Good production quality.
Cons
- Theme is weak and not very 'piratey'.
- Can be too simple for dedicated gamers.
- Smashing dishes together uses more cards to score points.
Thematic elements
- food and serving afternoon tea to pirate captains
Comparison games
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- action selection — Players choose from available action spots each round.
- End game scoring — The player with the most points (coins) at the end wins.
- hand management — Players decide which cards to keep and which to discard or use for their parrot value.
- Resource management — Players manage collected food cards and tokens to serve teas.
- set collection — Players collect different foods (dishes) to serve to captains.
- worker placement — Players place workers on spots to take actions like drawing cards or tokens, or serving tea.
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Quotes (from this video)
- The artwork, especially I think, is very well done.
- It's a basic game. Basic isn't bad here.
- This is the kind of game that's gorgeous looking, easy to grab some cards, turn them in, play it, have a fun pirate type theme and move on.
- It's a seven out of 10 for me.
- Pirates of the High Seas, it's a great little production.
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Unknown Channel Rules Teach at 0:15 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- The tea-and-dish economy offers strong thematic flavor and decision depth.
- The setup is clear and walkthroughs cover two-player and solo play.
- Various tokens and decks create meaningful choices without excessive downtime.
- Visuals and theme support quick engagement and strategic planning.
Cons
- Rules can be dense; players may need reference sheets to avoid confusion.
- Iconography and specialized terms may require a learning curve for newcomers.
Thematic elements
- Commerce and serving aboard a pirate vessel, balancing tea and dishes to maximize bounty.
- A pirate-themed tea-and-dish economy set aboard a ship, across nine rounds of play.
- Instructional tutorial with on-table examples and rule-by-rule guidance
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Action selection and execution — Meeple placement on the ship's action spaces (Smuggler's Hold, Galley, Captain's Quarters) determines available actions; multiple actions can be taken depending on meeple position.
- Deck management and draws — Draw or acquire cards from Tea (T) decks, Pantry, and Dish decks; some actions allow you to draw from top of the deck.
- Gear tokens economy — Collect and spend Gear tokens (Monkey, Parrot, Canon) to gain draws, discard cards for Parrot balloons, and refresh decks.
- Round bonuses and tracking — Each round has a bonus tile tracked on the round track; bonuses provide extra gear, cards, or action opportunities.
- Serving and scoring to Captain — Deliver meals and tea to the Captain to earn Bounty (D-Bloons); matching combinations maximize Bounty and unlock bonuses.
- set collection — Tea cards and their icons provide objectives that guide which dishes to complete for Bounty bonuses.
- set collection and objectives — Tea cards and their icons provide objectives that guide which dishes to complete for Bounty bonuses.
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Quotes (from this video)
- Pirates of the high teas is designed by Emily Vincent
- this game is coming to crowdfunding so you can learn much much more about it in that link in the description
- If you were a pirate what would your pirate's name be
- Pirates of the high te's did you know this is the first game from Pink HW games I did
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