All Hands!

All Hands! ... Nim variant for 2-4 players played with 16 pawns, game board and 'lifeboat'. Ducosim, the Dutch game association, publishes the game magazine Spel! with 'Spel! enkaarten' (game cards) i.e. games which fit on A5 cards. All Hands! is Card #0011 and was included with Spel! on 16th March 2013. The object is, not to be the last tar left on deck as, you will go down with the ship! Sixteen salty sailors (pawns) are lined up on deck (on the dots on the board) and, in turn, players remove adjacent pawns and place them safe at sea in the lifeboat. The player to remove the last pawn loses.