The intruiging game of vanishing ships

Publisher's Description:

Bermuda Triangle, the legendary area in the Atlantic Ocean where dozens of ships and planes have disappeared without explanation, is the setting of this exciting game of suspense. The sinister mystery cloud hovers, weaves and sweeps, swallowing some ships as it passes. Can you make it home with your cargo, or will your fleet become just one more victim in the Bermuda Triangle?

Box info:

Designer : ??

Published : 1976

Publisher : MB Games

Players : 2 to 4

Trev says:

This game was so popular it even spawned a song of the same name by Barry Manilow. Luckily the game can be played considerably more often than the song… Basically, you move your fleet of ships around the board carrying a cargo from one port to the next and trying to block ports to prevent your opponents getting in. The thing is that the amount of cash to be earned at each port changes for each visit and is known to all players, so there tends to be a rush to be the first to get to a port offering £100,000, whilst ignoring one offering £20,000. In that rush, you can land on other players’ ships and send them back to the last port while you wait for the opportune time to move your blocking ship out of the way to open the port up. The extra hazard, while all this is going on is the ‘mysterious cloud’, which moves about the board and twists around above the ships. There are magnets on the underside of the cloud and on top of the ships, so there is always a chance of a ship getting picked up and moved or destroyed when the cloud passes over. Generally a fun game.

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