Quick winning principles
- Move ghost ship to block opponents' best resource island.
- Rush Coco cards early—they compound ship movement advantage.
- Build hideouts on diverse islands, not clustered.
- Trade with the market only when it completes a hideout.
Ideal strategy
- 1
Ghost ship denial: place ship on the island opponents need for their next hideout—blocks resource collection for 1-2 turns.
- 2
Coco rush: prioritize Coco cards over hideouts in rounds 1-3; parrot abilities accelerate all future actions.
- 3
Island diversity: 3 hideouts on 3 islands beats 4 on 2—market trade flexibility and ghost ship resilience.
- 4
Market timing: trade only when 1 resource away from hideout; early trades gift opponents tempo.
- 5
Endgame ship control: with 4 hideouts, ghost ship on leader's sole resource island forces market trades at disadvantage.