Hey thrifters! Keep an eye peeled for KING OIL chunks

I have a KING OIL game board--perfect! But nothing else. Needs cards, derricks, &c. The whole list is:

21 Derricks, 6 Sheds, 32 Caps, 9 Pipelines in each color.
32 Wildcat Cards:
2-Fire Damage
5-$500 Oil Depletion, Drill 1 well, Property None
3-Royalty $500, Drill 1-2, Property None
1-Royalty $500, Drill 1-3, Property None
1-Royalty $500, Drill 1-4, Property None
1-Royalty $500, Drill 1-2, Property One
1-Royalty $500, Drill 1-3, Property One
1-Royalty $500, Drill 1-4, Property One
1-Royalty $1000, Drill 1, Property One
1-Royalty $1000, Drill 1-2, Property One
1-Royalty $1000, Drill 1-3, Property One
1-Royalty $2000, Drill 1-2, Property None
2-Royalty $2000, Drill 1-3, Property None
2-Royalty $2000, Drill 1-4, Property None
1-Royalty $2000, Drill 1, Property One
1-Royalty $3000, Drill 1, Property None
1-Royalty $3000, Drill 1-2, Property None
1-Royalty $3000, Drill 1-3, Property None
1-Royalty $3000, Drill 1-4, Property None
1-Royalty $4000, Drill 1, Property None
1-Royalty $4000, Drill 1-2, Property None
1-Royalty $4000, Drill 1-3, Property None
1-Royalty $4000, Drill 1-4, Property None

Keep an eye peeled out there! I will reimburse and then some!

I love this game

mikoyan wrote: I love this game

And I want to love it! Give your stuff to me.

This and Fireball Island are basically the last of my thrift store "holy grails"--never even got a sniff of either one.

There's a geeklist (several probably) floating around BGG on "common games that have similar or the same parts as impossibly rare birds" (e.g., the 1970 edition of Careers, a thrift staple, uses the *exact* same pawns, down to the mold lines, as Avalon Hill's Rail Baron) Check there--and throw up a request if need be--to see if those derricks show up anywhere else.

For the wildcat cards, I'd go immediately to Artscow and gin myself up a deck.

Dogmatix wrote: This and Fireball Island are basically the last of my thrift store "holy grails"--never even got a sniff of either one.

There's a geeklist (several probably) floating around BGG on "common games that have similar or the same parts as impossibly rare birds" (e.g., the 1970 edition of Careers, a thrift staple, uses the *exact* same pawns, down to the mold lines, as Avalon Hill's Rail Baron) Check there--and throw up a request if need be--to see if those derricks show up anywhere else.

For the wildcat cards, I'd go immediately to Artscow and gin myself up a deck.

Fuck me! I thought this thing would be floating around. If Dogmatix has never seen it, I don't stand a chance.

Uba: These [[jedi] tags don't work for shit. mikoyan hasn't sent me anything.

jeb wrote:

Dogmatix wrote: This and Fireball Island are basically the last of my thrift store "holy grails"--never even got a sniff of either one.

There's a geeklist (several probably) floating around BGG on "common games that have similar or the same parts as impossibly rare birds" (e.g., the 1970 edition of Careers, a thrift staple, uses the *exact* same pawns, down to the mold lines, as Avalon Hill's Rail Baron) Check there--and throw up a request if need be--to see if those derricks show up anywhere else.

For the wildcat cards, I'd go immediately to Artscow and gin myself up a deck.

Fuck me! I thought this thing would be floating around. If Dogmatix has never seen it, I don't stand a chance.

Uba: These [[jedi] tags don't work for shit. mikoyan hasn't sent me anything.

This sucker can sell for hundreds big money when complete, and you'll often see incomplete copies being parted out on ebay; it's just one of those games... Fireball Island is another just like that... Dark Tower, I understand, since it used extremely unique (and, in the case of the Tower itself, fragile) bits and the whole lawsuit thing both gave it notoriety and severely limited the numbers for a mass market release. These two, I don't quite understand because, though they're both really good games, they seemed like they were more readily available.

But, nope, not a sniff...

If you don't like King Oil, you are jaded *cough Barnes cough*

I still remember the copy of King Oil I passed up on (for $3!!!) a couple years ago before I knew it was a good game. I still see it when I close my eyes at night after a fruitless day of thrifting (which is almost every day around here...).

Anyway, I found a copy for $5 and I recently bought a deck of the Wildcat cards off eBay to complete my set. I'm only missing two cards so you can have the leftovers, if you're interested.

I finally picked up a used complete copy from ebay three or four years ago. I think I got it for around $35. It was one of those items from childhood that I'd played a variety of times but never actually owned.

tin0men wrote: I finally picked up a used complete copy from ebay three or four years ago. I think I got it for around $35. It was one of those items from childhood that I'd played a variety of times but never actually owned.

Whoops. I absolutely confused this one in my head with Crude [McMulti] when it came to absurd secondary market price (looking forward to Stronghold's reprint of this one, for sure). However, $50+ isn't uncommon, which is why thrifters love finding copies; it's still a high-margin seller. Still a pretty good deal nonetheless. (However Fireball Island is still a megamoney find )

Noob here looking for these Wildcat cards if anyone's got any spares:

1- Fire Damage
2- $500 Oil Depletion, Drill 1 well, Property None
1- Royalty $500, Drill 1-2, Property None
1- Royalty $500, Drill 1-4, Property None
1- Royalty $2000, Drill 1-3, Property None
1- Royalty $4000, Drill 1, Property None
1- Royalty $4000, Drill 1-2, Property None

Not to derail the thread but I played a game described as King Oil meets Code 777. It is called I9N. The object is to find the one oil well that goes the depeest. It was a fun game with interesting mechanics.

There used to be a web site that solely sold board game spare parts but I can't find it now to save my life. But if it's just cards you're missing buy a cheap box of opaque sleeves and roll your own.

S.