Ridley's Games GME060 Drunken Pirates, Drinking Game A6, Multicoloured

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Includes eye patch in gameplay to make the game arrrghuably more fun, plus 54 cards and instructions (English language not guaranteed). The suspicious behavior of Walter Kennedy's crew when they reached Ireland and put themselves under the influence has already be noted, but since Johnson mentions it a second time.

Gather your motley crew and a flagon of rum to play this hilarious Drunken Pirate Drinking Game from Ridley's Games ! Because the Ranger's crew were newer, they weren't able to drink punch like the men on Robert's ship Royal Fortune, apparently due to limited supply of sugar. The tamest punishment that alcohols visits upon the drinker is confusion, sometimes leading to curious outcomes.Strong alcohols such as rum and brandy were often used on long voyages to disinfect stagnant water, and to sweeten the flavour. Edward Barlow reported that while the East Indiaman Septer was in port at Goa, India in 1697, "we had the misfortune to have one of our seamen drowned, being in drink, for [ar]rack being cheap everyone gets a little. Most of the crew went ashore to steal provisions and rape and pillage in the village, leaving only two pirates aboard their ship Josiah Ketch. But while I imagined it being an acceptable and even exciting bar drink, the ladies took a completely different view.

Four different examples of pressed men taking the ship while the pirates were intoxicated can be found in the golden age of piracy literature. Mackra [sic] did what he could to soften this Beast, and ply'd him with warm Punch, notwithstanding which they were in a Tumult whether they should make an end of him, or no.headed the Lascars [forced Indian sailors] in a successful attempt to overpower the two men and leave the Pirates.

The sailors were apparently afraid of being punished because Hamilton said the Muslim residents "are forbidden strictly the Drinking of Wine or distilled Liquors, both by their ecclesiastick and civil Laws" 10. They were very cautious of speaking until drunk when they bragged and told of their loose way of living like so many bravoes [villains].

It has already been shown how drunkenness and its after-affect led to the downfall of Bartholomew Roberts. After escaping a fleet of five vessels, captain John (Richard) Taylor and his crew "caroused, and kept their Christmas in a most riotous manner, destroying most of the fresh provisions they had aboard, of which quite two-thirds was wasted" during three days of intoxicated celebration. The surgeons were subsequently made prisoners by the Chileans and surgeon's mate Lionel Wafer was promoted to chief surgeon of the buccaneers' fleet. This was much better than drinking causing an actual shipwreck; but let's put a pin in that thought. The pirates captured Miller and his crew, took possession of the Neptune along with another ship that had been selling them liquor, the Greyhound.