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Potato Pirates: Battlechips
An advanced coding card game
"The beauty of it is that they came away having a good game, having a good time. The fact that they picked up these core ideas was kind of a happy side effect."
An entire computer science curriculum, disguised as a card game. No computer needed — master loops, conditionals, error handling & recursion by playing.
- ✓ Goes well beyond the basics — a full CS curriculum covering loops, conditionals, error handling and recursion, the concepts students actually study.
- ✓ Highly strategic, deeply replayable — a serious tabletop game in its own right, not just a teaching tool.
- ✓ Includes a 200-page single-player adventure comic across 7 chapters — play solo through a story of coding challenges.
This game got me instantly. I really love computer science, and I really liked the idea of using cards with programming statements and concepts I already use almost every day.
What's In The Box
Standard:
- 60 Power Cards
- 21 Spudnet Cards
- 105 Battlechips Cards
- A sackful of Potato Tokens
- A pack of Energy Tokens
- 20 Upgrade Tokens
- 1 Starting Player Token
- 12 Captain Cards
- 12 Resource Cards
- 18 Ship Cards
Deluxe:
- 6 Player Boards (Replaces Resource Cards)
- 18 Ship Tokens (Replaces Ship Cards)