Puzzle

Puzzles are at the heart of Puzzle Pirates. Multiplayer puzzles between two or more pirates allow wagers. Duty puzzles aboard a ship keep it running smoothly and affect the performance of the vessel and sea battle. Crafting puzzles at a shoppe help produce goods and allow pirates to earn PoE directly.

Multiplayer Puzzles

Interactive puzzles which pit one pirate against another, in direct competion!

• Swordfighting and Brawls (more than two fighters) use swords.
• Drinking can put you or your opponent under the table.
• Spades, a four player trump based card game with a partner.
• Hearts, a four player trick-avoiding card game without partners.
• Treasure drop: You score points by outwitting your opponent in Pirate-Plinko.

Duty Puzzles

The puzzles involved in sailing a ship are often referred to as Duty Puzzles.

• Sailing increases ship speed and generates movement tokens during sea battle.
• Bilge pumping keeps water out o' the ship, and sailing effective.
• Carpentry repairs normal wear and tear, as well as sea battle damage, and keeps bilge from rushing into the ship.
• Gunnery loads cannons for the commanding officer to fire during sea battle.
• Navigation increases the effectiveness of the sailors and allows memorization of league points.

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--Lucaspaes 15:17, 15 August 2005 (PDT)

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Sea Battle

Sea battle happens when ships engage each other on the open sea. Sea battle puzzles are not formally defined as a duty puzzle, but is related as it is only allowed on ships along with the duty puzzles affecting it. Sea battle occurs when a ship engages another ship during a pillage, and as an integral part of blockades.

During a sea battle, the commanding officer controls ship movement and the firing of guns to damage the enemy. This damage reduces the effectiveness of the enemy's sailors, by causing bilge to rush into the ship, slowing it down, resulting in fewer movement tokens. Gun damage also gives an advantage in the second half of engagement, a swordfighting brawl between the pirates of the opposing ships. Indestructible black blocks are found at the bottom of the swordfighting puzzle, relative to the amount of damage done to the ship each pirate was on. Up to half the puzzle screen may be filled with these blocks, reducing the space for a pirate to build combos and other attacks.

During a blockade, a variant of sea battle occurs with two safe zones on either side of the board, from which any number of ships may enter. All ships compete (generally in teams) for control of flags, ultimately to win control of an island.

Crafting Puzzles

Crafting Puzzles are used to provide labor to a shoppe or stall. Currently, there are only three crafting puzzles, although all shoppes will have one eventually. Until then, shoppes which have no crafting puzzle use a different mechanism for labor.

• Alchemistry makes dyes, paints and other concoctions for an apothecary.
• Construction (not yet implemented)
• Distilling makes rum and oils for a distillery.
• Furnishing (not yet implemented)
• Ironworking (not yet implemented)
• Shipwrightery constructs ships for a shipyard.
• Tailoring (not yet implemented)
• Weaving (not yet implemented)

You can perform these puzzles in shoppes to produce work for that shoppe or stall. How well you do in the puzzle determines the level of labor you provide and how much you get paid. If there are no orders outstanding or if the shoppe has used its available labor for that hour, then you are just practicing the puzzle for no pay.

You must be a subscriber to hold a job on a subscription ocean. On a doubloon ocean, you need a labor badge instead. Working on the fly, where the pirate does not hold a permanent job, can be achieved by any pirate on any ocean - they must puzzle to use each hour of unused labour.

If you hold a job in one of these types of shoppes/stalls, you will need to play your Crafting puzzle at least once every ten days to maintain your ability to perform that work while offline. Check your "Ye" tab and the "Info" button and the "Skills" sub-tab for what level or work you can perform and if it is active or dormant.

On a subscriber ocean, for each paid account (up to three alts) you can use twenty-four hours of labor per day. The hours are divided up evenly among however many alts you have. Thus if you have three, each will be allowed to use a maximum of eight hours labor per day. If you have only one, it may use all twenty-four. During foraging, a single alt can use up all 24 hours of labour, regardless of how many other alts you have.