Pirate Puzzle, Board, and Card Game Gift Ideas
Present Suggestions for Boys and Girls Who Love Pirate Toys
Dec 8, 2008
The whole family can have fun and play together with pirate theme floor puzzles, jigsaw puzzles, board games, and card games about finding treasure and building crews.
Thanks to the popularity of Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean movie franchise, many kids are interested in playing with pirate toys. Set sail for hours of entertaining puzzle and problem solving and fun family interactions with the following suggestions for puzzles and games for boys and girls who like pirates.
Suggestions for Pirate Theme Puzzles
- floor puzzles by brands such as Melissa & Doug, Galison/Mudpuppy, and Djeco
- boxed jigsaw puzzles by brands such as Djeco, Vilac, and Ravensburger
- Manhattan Toy's plastic Puzzibits 3D Puzzle Art toy, the Captain's Crew pirate pattern set
- Channel Craft's jigsaw puzzle in a glass bottle that depicts a sunken treasure map when assembled.
- Pirate's Life jigsaw puzzles of famous pirates like BlackBeard, Captain Kidd, and Redbeard
- wooden stacking toy like the Haba Seadog Puzzle
Suggestions for Pirate Theme Board Games
- Pirate's Blast by Haba (ages 3 and up) hones fine-motor skills as players must roll a die and squeeze small rubber bulbs to create wind to blow their ship around (or cannonballs at the opposing player's ship) in the course of collecting treasure chests.
- In The Black Pirate Game by Haba (ages 5 and up) players squeeze rubber bulbs to create wind to move the ship pieces across the game board and around three-dimensional islands while trying to avoid the black pirate ship and collect gold coins.
- Pirate-opoly by Late for the Sky (ages 5–8) is an age-appropriate adaptation of the classic Monopoly game in which players move around the board collecting pirates instead of properties and being paid in loot when other players land on their pirates.
- Tesoro by Djeco (ages 6 and up) is a fast-paced strategy game in which pirate players must loot ships to collect gold coins.
- Piratissimo by Rio Grande Games (ages 6 and up) is a fun family board game in which players move their ships around the board, collecting treasure (sometimes stealing it from each other) and trying to return it to harbor.
- In the educational Dicecapades! Word Pirates! Game by Haywire (ages 6 and up) players must use letter dice and pieces of land and wall to spell words and build their way toward a treasure.
- To play Front Porch Old Dread Pirate Game by Sababa (ages 8 and up) players pretend to be pirates and travel around the world seeking adventure by rolling dice to move around the board to collect gems from different islands and to compete in roll-offs with other players to take their gems, too. Comes also in a simple Buccaneer's Revenge version and a fancy collectible Old Century Edition.
- In Pirate's Cove by Days of Wonder (ages 10 and up), players attempt to become the most famous pirate through action like staking claims to different islands, gathering treasure, and battling other players/pirates.
Suggestions for Pirate Theme Card Games
- In Skallywaggs by Bent Castle Workshops (ages 6 and up), players must combine cards to "build" crew members and amass a crew of rogues while other players try to stop them by playing various event cards.
- Loot by Gamewright (ages 10 and up) is a fast-paced family card game in which players must use strategy and math skills to capture other players' merchant ship cards and collect gold pieces.
Suggestions for Other Pirate Theme Games
- The Pin the Parrot on the Pirate Party by eeBoo (ages 2 and up) is a fun, safe variation of pin the tail on the donkey that includes stickers and a cloth blindfold.
- Players of the Pop Up Pirate Game by Tomy (ages 4 and up) take turns sticking plastic swords into a barrel until a sword enters the slot that makes the pirate inside the barrel pop up.
- Wild Planet A Pirate's Life Treasure Hunter (ages 4 and up) is an electronic toy game in which one player hides the treasure and another follows light and sound clues on the map to find it.
- In Blackbeard's Last Stand by Channel Craft (ages 6 and up) players must quickly stack wooden tiles in a certain way to win.
- Pirates Undercover by Educational Insights (ages 7 and up) requires players to cover and uncover different items and arrange pieces in certain combinations to solve puzzle challenges.
- Pirate's Gold by ThinkFun (ages 8 and up) requires a single player to use logic and problem-solving skills to move the pirate past various obstacles to reach the treasure. Includes increasingly difficult challenges to solve.
- To play League of Pirates by Sababa/Front Porch (ages 8 and up), players roll dice to put together pirate crews for their ships.
- Morgan's Revenge Pirate Game by Channel Craft (ages 8 and up) is a replica of a classic pirate's game in which players place various wagers and spin a top to win doubloons and pieces of eight. Players are free to make up their own rules.
A gift of a pirate theme puzzle, card game, or board game can delight both adults and children who love buccaneers and high seas adventures and bring all the members of a family together to share fun, memory-making time together.
Check out also Pirate Playset, Figure, and Doll Gift Ideas, Pirate Costume Gift Ideas for Boys and Girls, and Pirate Art, Model, and Craft Kit Gift Ideas.
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