{"id":947,"date":"2018-08-27T02:23:24","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T02:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/?p=947"},"modified":"2018-08-27T02:24:30","modified_gmt":"2018-08-27T02:24:30","slug":"game-review-ship-of-treasures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/2018\/08\/27\/game-review-ship-of-treasures\/","title":{"rendered":"Ship of Treasures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, the Chicago Toy and Game Fair hosts a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chitag.com\/yic\">Young Inventor Challenge<\/a>. One of the 2016 award winners was recently published, and I wrote a review of it for Games for Educators. [I don&#8217;t publish that site anymore, but I still write for it]<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an excerpt of the review:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ship of Treasures is an incredibly well-produced game of piracy for kids ages 8 and up. In it, players take the role of pirates searching a pirate ship for treasure.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of using a traditional game board, Ship of Treasures includes a plastic grid of working plastic hatches, each with its own secret compartment. The box transforms into a pirate ship, and the treasures and cannonballs are hidden beneath the hatches.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Want to read more? Check out the full review at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/g4ed.com\/?p=2092\">Games for Educators!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-948 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Ship-of-Treasures-.jpg\" alt=\"Ship of Treasures\" width=\"225\" height=\"279\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking for a fun pirate game for 8-10 year-olds? This one might just fit the bill!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Ship-of-Treasures-.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6DpYi-fh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=947"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":951,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947\/revisions\/951"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}