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John Silver

#21463BGG ↗

2006 · 2-4 players · 30min · weight 1.71 · 294 ratings

v2 v3 v4 wide v4 deep

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ID
21463
Name
John Silver
Year
2006
Rank
12074
Min players
2
Max players
4
Playing time
30
Min playtime
30
Max playtime
30
Avg weight
1.7059
Num weights
34
Bayes avg
5.5609
Average
6.04762
Users rated
294
Num owned
505
Wanting
5
Wishing
22
Num comments
102
Fetched at
Wed Apr 29 2026 05:34:56 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Mechanisms (1)
Trick-taking
Categories (3)
Card GameNovel-basedPirates
Description (721 chars)

Description of the game from Spielbox: John Silver', a card game by Martin Schlegel. John Silver is an "ah, I see" game - you play out a card and wonder who's going to take the trick. And when the trick is taken, it's usually accompanied by "ah, I see". When a row of 4 cards is complete the two tricks will be distributed amongst the winners: The highest card "grabs" the second-highest card, and the lowest card "grabs" the second-lowest card. The value of this tricks does not depend on their number but on the coins (good points) or broken treasure maps (negative points) printed onto the playing cards. Additionally there are apples on some cards that offer points to the player sitting to the left from you.

LLM v2 (wide)

Not yet enriched at v2 (wide pass).

LLM v3 (deep)

Not yet enriched at v3 (deep pass).

LLM v4 wide (controlled-vocab primitives)

Not yet enriched at v4 (wide pass).

LLM v4 deep (archetype fit)

Not in the v4 deep-pass top-20% slice.