Alone, or co-operating with other crew members, you must show
presence of mind and do the right thing to save as many passengers as
possible. Time is short...
The card game SOS Titanic uses a mechanism similar to Patience,
with the cards representing passengers who must be arranged on the
decks, then placed in the lifeboats in a particular order. As one of the
crew members, you and your teammates need to move and arrange these
passengers as quickly as you can. Each section of the Titanic holds a
pile of cards of which only the first is available.
On his turn, a player draws a few cards from the main deck and tries
to move passengers out of the sinking ship onto the lifeboats. Failing
to move at least one passenger or needing to reshuffle the main deck
might cause one section of the ship to sink, thus reducing the number of
piles available as well as the hopes of those still on board. Players
can also use action cards to step in at fateful times when things
otherwise seem lost. The game ends when the ship has sunk completely or
when all remaining passengers have been saved.
