You are in a desert island were there's the hidden treasure you are looking for. Everyday each one of you can perform an action to try to get it.
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HOW CAN YOU GET THE TREASURE?
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To get the treasure you must collect the Four Elements' Totems (Water, Fire, Wind and Earth). They will give you the map that will lead you to the treasure. In order to get a Totem, you need to owe 4 cards of this same object and exchange them in a square with its symbol. Each one of you will receive two cards at the beginning and can get more by exploring the island. Each one of you can only have four cards, so you will have to discard the ones you want until there are only four.
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BUT, BE CAREFUL, THE ISLAND IS SINKING!
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Every day of the week an increasing number of island cards will start sinking, so that, they will be turned down. You can still use them, but be careful, because the next time, they are chosen, they will disappear permanently. The water in a square can be removed and the square turned again.
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Each week, the number of sinking squares will increase... So, be careful and fast!
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WHAT CAN PLAYERS DO?
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Every day, each player can perform one of the following actions:
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Move a square.
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Remove water from a square.
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Dig in a square.
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Give a card to a mate in the same square.
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Attack another team (only captain or gunner).
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Get a Totem.
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Place a trap.
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WHY SHOULD YOU DIG IN A SQUARE?
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In the Forbidden Island there's the main treasure that you want to find, but there might be some hidden objects wherever, so you can dig in a square in order to find one. Once you decide doing this, you can get an object, but also money, new element cards or... just check it!
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HOW CAN PLAYERS PLACE TRAPS AND GET FREE FROM THEM?
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The gunner of each team can place a trap in a square. The trap must be a tongue twister that must be found in the Internet or somewhere else. When a pirate from another team comes to this same square, he or she won't be able to do anything else until the tongue twister is pronounced properly.
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IS THERE ANY GOLDEN? HOW CAN BE USED?
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You can earn golden coins by doing classwork or digging. Classwork or homework marks are automatically converted into golden coins. The gold is earned individually and can be used to purchase objects that you can find in the Old McMillian Store in this website. These objects can make your characters more powerful.
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Combining all the crew members' earned gold coins, there's a leaderboard. Achieving the highest position there can be very useful at the end...
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WHAT ARE THE CHALLENGES?
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The challenges are some English tasks that can be done to earn rewards. They will appear here and it's sentinel's job to be aware of them.
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BE CAREFUL, THERE ARE OTHER PIRATE CREWS!
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The legend is widely known, so you can be sure that you are not the only ones who are looking for the treasure. If the captain or the explorer reach a square where there's a captain or a cox from another crew, they can decide to attack them.
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HOW DO PIRATES FIGHT BETWEEN THEM?
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Once one team decides to attack another one, both captains have to distribute their members to three different events:
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- SPELLING: Spell properly as much words as possible.
- GUESSING WORDS: Guess the correct word matching to its definition.
- VERBS: Say as much irregular or regular verbs past and participle forms.
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As it, there will be two pirates form each team in each event. They will have one minute for each crew to score as points as they can alternating their answers between the two characters. The achieved points will be increased by the power of the equiped objects. Before the fight starts, the gunners of each team can do a shot. This shot gives a -1 points punishment to the other team in the chosen event.
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The loser team will be forced to pay a number of coins from 1 to 20 (decided with dices) to the winner team.
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