When I first discovered this last year, I thought it might go down quite well with the younger students. How wrong I was — the game was a revolution! I now have Year 7s and Year 12s alike demanding to play The Pirate Game. I think it is the combination of strategy, luck, mystery games and the option to steal everything from your opponent that has made a firm favourite amongst the staff and students of my school.To access the resource and join in the discussion, or to view all the other ROTW in this series, just search for “TES Maths Blog” on the internet.