The Puzzles

Arrr! Puzzling! The heart o' every pirate's life! We have three principle kinds of puzzles in Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates:

Skills o' Piracy

When upon the high seas, a pirate needs her wits and puzzlin' skills about her. The skills o' piracy are related to the various duty stations manned aboard ship, and they be:

• Bilge Pumping fer clearing the hull o' the bilge water that slows the vessel down
• Sailing, brings the vessel up to speed
• Rigging, an alternative method for bringing a ship up to speed
• Navigation, keeps her on course and helps acceleration
• Gunnery, for loading the cannons in battle
• Carpentry, for repairing damage from rocks, shots, and the cruel seas and
• Treasure Haul, for plundering booty from sunken vessels.

In addition, when a Sea Battle concludes with boarding, all the pirates aboard engage in Swordfighting or a Rumble!

Crafting Puzzles

As exciting as shipboard life be, let's not forget the noble labor that one can perform in a shop while ashore. Currently, the laborin' puzzles available to pirates be:

• Alchemistry, concocting potions, dyes and other useful mixtures
• Blacksmithing, the ancient art of working metal
• Distilling, brewing up fine rum
• Foraging, digging for fruit and treasure
• Shipwrightery, the fine fashioning of vessels

These puzzles can be played in their respective shops, often earning you a pretty penny for your labor!

Carousing

After a hard day's piracy or laboring, a pirate likes nothing better than to relax in the Inn and indulge in a little carousing. The following carousing games are there for all to play:

• Drinking, every pirate's favourite pastime
• Treasure Drop, a fun way to risk yer Pieces of Eight!
• Brawls, group Swordfighting and Rumble melees
• Hearts, the four-player card game of much hand-wringing and malice
• Spades, a partner card game with four players
• Poker, a group card game of wagering and skill

Puzzle Scoring

More information on puzzle standings, experience or how the puzzles are scored can be found here.

Tournaments

Of the above games, Swordfighting, Rumble, Drinking and Treasure Drop can be played in Tournaments.

Puzzle Competitions

If tournaments are not enough competition for ye, then there are also ocean-wide Puzzle Competitions in various sea-faring and crafting puzzles.