Unboxing Oar Else! — Oar Else! the card game
Stranded in shark infested waters, race to shore or find the items necessary for an immediate rescue. Play as a "team" or jump overboard and go it alone, overcoming torrential storms, blabbering parrots, pirate attacks, and simply losing your mind. Horde food for an end game bonus. Oar Else! is a "cooperative" card game for 3-5 players.

Example game cards — Game details

Typical game length is 30 - 45 min. However, there are a couple cards that can "reset" the game.

Suggested game price: $20.00
Suggested expansion pack price: $3.00
**Rules PDF:**
**Combined Set-up card**
(addition 2.10.14; 4.65 MB)
**game rules** (revised 2.19.14)
**game rules**: original

Notes about the game

With any game there are always variations of game play that pop-up as game players have different interpretations of rules and cards. Here is a list of notes from gamers and the developers:

Saving trees - The instructions were printed out of order. To save trees, the pages were cut apart instead of being reprinted. The first page has the picture of the box art. The last page is the URL.
Game play was inspired by Mille Bourne.
A player's "hand" are the cards in hand and any face down cards bungeed to you.
"Discard a paddle card" means to move your paddle marker back one space on your paddling card.
Cards that are played face up in front of a player are at risk of being discarded when attack cards are played. For example, the "pirate attack" card could be used to force a player to discard a "bungee" item card.
Guidelines for bidding? What's your comfort level? Everyone with cards must bid; one up, five down.. it's all up to you.
When Immediate Rescue cards are played, they are considered out of play and are no longer at risk of being discarded by attack cards. Deciding when to reveal your scenario can be tricky; revealing will put those cards out of play so no risk of loosing them, but everyone now knows what rescue scenario cards you are trying to collect.
Players may only play Immediate Rescue cards towards their individual or the boat's Immediate Rescue Scenario. If the Immediate Rescue doesn't match your objective, then it probably matches someone elses scenario. Discard or use them to bid for Food cards, a way to discover what other players are searching for.
The Pack Rat Ability Card allows you to retrieve the cards that are discarded when a "thrown overboard" card is played.
The Thief Ability Card enables the user take a card from another person's hand; this doesn't include items that are face-up on the table.
The hair glue card should have a "discard" on it~ infinite extra turns.. ah, no.
Interpreting cards ~ Oar Else! provides avenues to create your own house rules about how cards can be played. If uncertain, decide as a group to set up a house rule and be consistent.
Some day set-up cards will have a different backing than the rest of the cards. Sorry, not with this first run of 1,000 though.
There is a copy error in the first twenty-five decks on the "Fairytale Ending Immediate Scenario" set up card. It reads "Any Means Immediate Scenario".
I can't count so the contents list card count is off.