Kelp: Shark vs Octopus

How it plays

1. 1The kelp forest is a ring of face-down blocks. Only the octopus player knows which block is the octopus, which are traps and which are food.
2. 2The octopus takes two actions a turn: play a card (paying by revealing blocks), draw back up to hand size, or discard a card and re-hide one revealed block. Cards let it move unseen and shuffle blocks around.
3. 3To eat, the octopus needs the matching Eat card in hand and the food right next to it. Eating reveals both the octopus and the food.
4. 4The shark draws 2 dice from its bag and rolls them: blue dice place currents, yellow dice search (reveal a block), red dice strike. Every die used to strike goes onto the hunger track.
5. 5If a strike uncovers the octopus there is a confrontation: each player secretly picks a colour card and both reveal. A match means the shark wins on the spot; otherwise the octopus escapes, and each escape makes the next one harder.

How you win

Three endings: the octopus eats its fourth food and wins; the shark places a seventh die on the hunger track and the octopus wins; or the shark wins a confrontation.