History VideoGame / PuzzlePirates

* FanNickname: Skeletons are nicknamed Skellies.

* ThemeNaming: Pirate ships are generally named by the format "[Adjective] [Fish Species]" (e.g. the ''Pious Sunfish'', the ''Cunning Barracuda'', and so forth), with the exception of the NPC ship ''El Pollo Diablo'' ("The Devil Chicken").

* AntiFrustrationFeature: In the carpentry puzzle, you are allowed to adjust a piece if you had misplaced it slightly.

** If you attempt to send a 'tell' to yourself, you will be informed that "talking to oneself is a sign of impeding insanity.
** If you involve any wager in a puzzle challenge with a teacher during a challenge mission, they will refuse for a good reason.

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* WalkThePlank: Ship captains are able to hand out this punishment to crew members who are being particularly unpleasant. (In line with the game's no-death policy, they'll immediately wash ashore on the nearest island, but it means you don't have to put up with them for the rest of the trip and they miss out on collecting a share of the booty at the end of it.) A captain can even [[PressXToDie inflict this on himself]]. [[WhatAnIdiot Somehow.]]

** However, as noted below in the BribingYourWayToVictory entry, Doubloon oceans allow premium currency to be purchased for regular game currency, enabling effective free play for some extra effort.

* BreakableWeapons: Clothing and weapons last for a set amount of days, ranging from a month to several. This can be avoided by putting the item into a wardrobe or rack when it is not in use.
* TheComputerIsACheatingBastard: Or "Cheating Savior" in this case. The Black Ship flat out cheats, moving through blocking terrain and doing several other things players can't do.
* DemBones: [[FanNickname Skellies]]

* FarSideIsland: In the early years, each new character began by being rescued off one of these, and receiving a JustifiedTutorial on the way to the nearest port.
* FogFeet: Ghosts

* HookHand

* LordBritishPostulate: El Pollo Diablo, the Black Ship which appears to punish players for attacking ships significantly weaker than themselves, is meant to be undefeatable. It has been defeated several times, and each time the developers have given it a major upgrade.

* AmusingInjuries: When a ship sinks, everyone on it has a chance of getting either a peg-leg, an eyepatch, a HookHand, or a starfish stuck to their face. These can be removed using special potions, but they're frequently seen as badges of honor among the playerbase.

* CommonplaceRare: Black cloth, arguably.

* HatOfAuthority: Certain hats are restricted to officers and up, and only royalty can wear crowns.

* TalkLikeAPirate: Natch. [=NPCs=] always do, and there's even an option to filter swear words and replace them with piratey swears.

** However, as noted below in the BribingYourWayToVictory entry, Doubloon oceans allow premium currency to be purchased for regular game currency, enabling effective free play for extra effort.

* VendorTrash: Fruit.

* VideoGameCrueltyPunishment: The whole reason El Pollo Diablo exists is to ward off potential [[{{Griefer}} griefers]] from ganking weak player ships.
** For those of you who want to know, El Pollo Diablo is an NPC ship that appears when you attack a significantly weaker ship and will fight in place of the attacked ship. [[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard It cannot be damaged or grappled, goes through obstacles, gets 4 moves each turn (unlike other ships the same size), and knows your every move.]] After inflicting full damage on your ship, it will grapple you and you will fight 159 skellies. If it wins, it takes everything except 5 of the lowest quality rum you have.

* ShoutOut: Very many, including to all the obvious candidates like ''MonkeyIsland'' and ''{{Pirates of the Caribbean}}''.

* AntiPoopSocking: In the form of entertaining little messages that pop up after a while of playing.
* BribingYourWayToVictory: Doubloon Oceans use said Doubloons as a form of microcurrency, which is purchased with real money and needed to buy most high-end goods. Players can exchange regular currency for Doubloons, but that leads to players with money to burn buying lots of doubloons and making a killing off of selling them to others.

''Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates'' is a fun little MMO created by Three Rings, Inc. In it, players take the role of (what else?) {{Pirate}}s and interact with each other in a rather cartoonish world. The game is divided into a number of servers, called Oceans; each Ocean consists of a number of islands separated into archipelagos; within this framework, players can do virtually anything, from sailing the high seas with fellow pirates in search of treasure, to owning and operating one's own shop, to playing classic games like Hearts and Poker.

What makes this game unique among MMO's is that all of its major tasks, from sailing a ship to distilling rum, are staged in the form of {{Puzzle Game}}s. These include things like {{Match Three Game}}s (for tasks like pumping the bilge water out of a ship, digging for treasure, or hauling it from a shipwreck), FallingBlocks (operating a ship's sails, as well as Swordfighting, in the vein of Super Puzzle Fighter), pattern-matching games (shipbuilding, for instance), and other, more exotic fare.

** During the game's beta, there was a notorious incident where the word lists in the swear word filter got reversed, which caused the piratey terms to be [[http://forums.puzzlepirates.com/community/mvnforum/viewthread?thread=2777&offset=0 replaced with their corresponding swear words]] in game. [[HilarityEnsues Hilarity Ensued]].

Another hallmark of the game is that [[PlayerGeneratedEconomy its economy is almost entirely player-driven]]: players buy or forage commodities from islands, sail them back to their shops, and use them to manufacture goods using player-provided labor. This results in the game economy being remarkably similar to that of the real world, [[YourMileageMayVary for better or worse.]]