Pawikan Patrol

Pawikan Patrol is an action-selection, light deduction strategy game set in a coastal community where players send Characters to the Beach to find the location of Pawikan (sea turtles) and their nests, while keeping the Poacher away from them. Along the way, players must also clean up Trash and make sure that the natural Predator of the sea turtles is kept safe from harm. During a player's turn, they will choose a Character card from their hand and move it to one of the five face-down Beach cards on the Beach; in response, the Poacher card will also move to a new Beach card based on the number of arrows indicated on the Character. After moving, Beach cards in the same column as your Character and the Poacher are turned face-up at the same time: if they have the matching icon on the Beach card, they are collected; cards collected by Characters are put into their player's collection area; meanwhile, cards collected by the Poacher are discarded. If they do not have the matching icon, the cards are returned face-down. Characters have special abilities that allow the player to gather information from the Beach or the Beach Deck, manipulate the position of cards in different zones, or negate the Poacher's ability to collect cards before you do. Players must be careful with their choice of Character to send on any particular turn, because once they move to the Beach, they have to wait they only have one Character in hand to regain the use of all their other Characters; timing their movement can be very important. The player with the most number of points at the end of the game wins and is declared the Pawikan Patrol Leader; however, if they are they are careless enough to allow the Poacher to take away a certain number of turtles or eggs, ALL players can lose the game! —description from the publisher

Players: 1–4 best 3
Playing time: 15–20 min
Age: 9+
Complexity: 2 / 5