Forbidden Island is a cooperative board game where players race to collect treasures and escape before the sinking island disappears beneath them.
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Published Forbidden Island co-op play using the official flood and treasure rules.
Forbidden Island is a cooperative survival puzzle. Your team is trying to collect four treasures and fly away together while the island tiles flood, sink, and disappear.
On your turn, take up to three actions: move, shore up a flooded tile, give a treasure card, or capture a treasure by discarding four matching cards at a matching tile. Then draw two treasure cards and resolve Waters Rise cards, followed by flood cards equal to the current water level. Flooded tiles can sink if flooded again. Win by collecting all four treasures and leaving Fools' Landing with a Helicopter Lift card; lose if a required treasure location, Fools' Landing, an trapped pawn, or the water meter defeats the team.
Forbidden Island is cooperative win/loss. The team wins only when all treasures are captured and everyone escapes. There are no victory points, but notes such as difficulty, water level, and treasures captured are useful for comparing attempts.
Record whether the team won or lost. Add starting difficulty, final water level, roles, treasures captured, and any special island layout in notes.