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Puerto Rico

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Card game based on the Puerto Rico board game, featuring 44 production and 68 city buildings with varying building costs and victory points; all cards have a triple function – building, commodity or money. You begin with four cards and one Indigoküperei as a production building in your display. Starting with the governor – not a role, but the name for the starting player function for checking on card limits etc. – players in turn select a role; the active player implements the role’s action with the role privilege, all other players without the privilege: Builder – all can build, the builder pays one card less; Councillor –selects a card from five cards drawn from the pile, the others from two cards; Producer – produces two commodities in an empty production building (one card from the pile goes face down onto the building), the others one commodity. Trader - sells two commodities, all other players one. Prospector – only he draws one card.

Buildings in your display influence your action options; you cannot, for instance, build two identical city buildings, as they change the rules massively for you when built; you can set cards aside for victory points with the Chapel or keep two cards instead of one with the Prefecture, and so on. Whoever is first to have 12 buildings in his display, ends the game and the winner is the player with most victory points.  

The game was a sensation when first published as San Juan, offering the bonus that is works exceedingly well for two players; it is still sensational under the name of Puerto Rico – one of the most ingenious alea games, and a game that should be part of every game collection.

Players: 2-4

Age: 10+

Time: 60+

Designer: Andreas Seyfarth

Artist: Harald Lieske, Mia Steingräber

Price: ca. 13 Euro

Publisher: alea / Ravensburger 2018

Web: www.ravensburger.de

Genre: Cards

Users: With friends

Special: 2 players

Version: de

Rules: de fr pl

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Comments:

New edition of San Juan

Includes “Die neuen Gebäude” expansion

Excellent 2-player game

Compares to:

Puerto Rico board game

Other editions:

As Puerto Rico 2018 at alea (fr), Lacerta (pl)

As San Juan at Broadway Toys (cn), Grow Jogos (pt), Giochi Uniti (it), alea / Rio Grande (en)

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 2

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0