Ahoy! Sharpen your wits, steady your nerves, and get ready to bluff, bid, and battle on the high seas, because Skull King, the swashbuckling trick-taking classic, has just arrived on Board Game Arena!
If you enjoy games like Oh Hell!, Wizard, Euchre, or Spades, you will feel right at home. But Skull King is not just another trick-taker, it is a tense, tactical duel of risk and timing where predicting your own success is just as important as outplaying your rivals.
Each round begins with players secretly and simultaneously declaring how many tricks they think they will win. Will you boldly promise victory, or cautiously aim for none at all?
Once bids are revealed, the real challenge begins: you must win exactly what you promised. Too many tricks? You are punished. Too few? Same fate. Suddenly, losing a trick can be just as thrilling as capturing one!
This simultaneous bidding keeps the table on edge (some rounds are overbid, others underbid, and every hand carries the promise of wild swings in fortune).
The game’s 66-card deck is far from ordinary:
- Four suits (1–13) for classic trick-taking play.
- Pirates, the Tigress, and the dreaded Skull King, each bringing special powers that can upend the strongest hand.
- Mermaids, who can tame the Skull King himself.
- Escape cards, letting you bow out of danger.
Black Jolly Roger cards trump all numbered suits, Pirates trump Mermaids, and the Skull King trumps everything (except when a clever Mermaid takes him down. Add in the versatile Tigress and the unpredictability of simultaneous bidding, and no two games ever feel the same).
Nail your bid and score 20 points per trick.
Miss it, and lose 10 points per trick you are off.
Bid zero successfully, and earn a jackpot of 10 × the round number points — but fail, and you will sink just as quickly.
Bonus points are awarded for daring feats like capturing Pirates with the Skull King, or the King with a Mermaid.
After ten rounds of rising tension and escalating stakes, the pirate with the most points claims ultimate glory.
Whether you are a trick-taking veteran or just dipping your toes into the genre, Skull King offers fast-paced, laugh-out-loud fun full of bold plays and crushing blunders.
Now available to play right here on Board Game Arena, challenge your friends, outwit your foes, and see if you have what it takes to command the Skull King’s crown:
https://boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?game=skullking
Let's thank the whole team behind this gem: Brent,Tauni & Jeff Beck, and the Grandpa Beck's Games company, and the combined efforts of tchobello & MathCT for making it available on Board Game Arena!
Annnnd it's the OFFICIAL END OF THE SUMMER OF GAMES EVENT!
Like every year for 6 years now, you are joining this fun event dedicated to discovering new games released daily on Board Game Arena.
Plenty of you joined the event this year!
A total of 111,148 members of Board Game Arena clicked at least ONCE on the calendar on the front page.
15,004 were able to complete a 10 days streak,
8,242 were able to click for 20 days in a row to get the related trophy,
and finally, 4,681 of you went were brave enough to come on the front page every day for 31 days to get all of the trophies from the event. It means now that they own a very unique piece of BGA History.
Find out more about the releases and linked games from this event on this forum post: https://boardgamearena.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=44060
We would like to thank all of you for your support, fun and remarks.
We are always improving the platform, one bit at a time, and we are happy to see you all taking part in our vision.
What will be next?
Depending on the demand, you can expect that the calendar will come back. But there will be more!
Stay tuned, and thanks for you support.
You rocked that boat, now it is time to get back to your daily habits! :)
As always, see you next time, take care, and...
PLAY FAIR!
KRALJ LOBANJ: Naše darilo ob koncu dogodka POLETJE IGER!
Jupi! Nabrusite pamet, umirite živce in se pripravite na blefiranje, licitiranje in boj na odprtem morju, saj je Skull King, klasična igra s triki in pustolovščinami, pravkar prispela na ** Board Game Arena **!
Če uživate v igrah, kot so Oh Hell!, Wizard, Euchre ali Spades, se boste počutili kot doma. Toda Skull King ni le še en trik, temveč napet, taktičen dvoboj tveganja in časa, kjer je napovedovanje lastnega uspeha prav tako pomembno kot premagovanje tekmecev.
Vsak krog se začne z igralci, ki na skrivaj in hkrati razglasijo, koliko štihov mislijo, da bodo dobili. Boste drzno obljubili zmago ali previdno ciljali na nič? Ko so ponudbe razkrite, se začne pravi izziv: osvojiti moraš točno toliko, kot si obljubil. Preveč trikov? Kaznovan si. Premalo? Ista usoda. Nenadoma je lahko izguba trika prav tako razburljiva kot ujetje enega!
Zaradi sočasnega licitiranja je miza napeta (nekateri krogi so previsoki, drugi prenizki, vsaka roka pa prinaša obljubo divjih nihanj sreče).
66-kartni komplet igre še zdaleč ni običajen:
- Štiri barve (1–13) za klasično igro s triki.
- Pirati, Tigrica in strašni Kralj lobanj, vsak s posebnimi močmi, ki lahko obrnejo na glavo najmočnejšo roko.
- Morske deklice, ki lahko ukrotijo samega Kralja lobanj.
- Karte za pobeg, ki vam omogočajo, da se z uklonom izognete nevarnosti.
Črne karte Jolly Rogerja premagajo vse oštevilčene barve, Pirati premagajo Morske deklice, Kralj lobanj pa vse (razen ko ga premaga pametna Morska deklica. Dodajte še vsestransko Tigrico in nepredvidljivost hkratnega licitiranja in nobeni dve igri se ne bosta nikoli enako počutili).
Uresničite svojo ponudbo in osvojite 20 točk na trik.
Če zgrešiš, izgubiš 10 točk za vsak napačni trik.
Uspešno ponudbite nič in zaslužite glavni dobitek 10 × okroglo število točk – če pa ne uspete, boste prav tako hitro potonili.
Dodatne točke se podeljujejo za drzne podvige, kot je ujetje piratov s Kraljem lobanj ali kralja z Morsko deklico.
Po desetih rundah naraščajoče napetosti in stopnjujočih se vložkov si pirat z največ točkami prisluži končno slavo.
Ne glede na to, ali ste veteran v trikih ali se šele poglobljeno spoznavate v ta žanr, vam Skull King ponuja hitro in na glas smešno zabavo, polno drznih potez in odličnih napak.
Zdaj na voljo za igranje **tukaj na Board Game Arena **, izzivajte svoje prijatelje, prelisičite sovražnike in preverite, ali imate vse, kar je potrebno, da osvojite krono Kralja lobanj:
https://boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?game=skullking
Zahvalimo se celotni ekipi, ki stoji za tem biserom: Brentu, Tauniju in Jeffu Becku ter podjetju Grandpa Beck's Games, in skupnim prizadevanjem tchobella in MathCT, da so ga dali na voljo na Board Game Arena!
In pa je to URADNI KONEC DOGODKA POLETJA IGER!
Kot vsako leto že 6 let, se pridružujete temu zabavnemu dogodku, namenjenemu odkrivanju novih iger, ki dnevno izhajajo na Board Game Arena.
Letos se vas je dogodka udeležilo veliko!
Skupno 111.148 članov Board Game Arena je vsaj ENKRAT kliknilo na koledar na prvi strani.
15.004 je uspelo zaključiti 10-dnevni niz,
8.242 uporabnikov je lahko 20 dni zapored kliknilo, da bi prejeli pripadajočo trofejo,
in končno, 4.681 vas je bilo dovolj pogumnih, da ste se 31 dni vsak dan pojavljali na naslovnici in si zagotovili vse trofeje z dogodka. To pomeni, da so zdaj lastniki zelo edinstvenega dela zgodovine BGA.
Več o izdajah in povezanih igrah s tega dogodka izveste v tej objavi na forumu:https://boardgamearena.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=44060
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