Puerto Rico*
Puerto Rico is a strategy game where players become colonial governors in Puerto Rico, aiming to earn victory points through trade and construction.
Gameplay
- Each player has their own board for buildings, plantations, and resources.
- Shared resources include ships, a trading house, and doubloons.
- Grow crops, exchange them for points or doubloons, and use doubloons to build and expand.
- Role cards determine actions each round, with the privilege going to the player who chose the role.
- The "governor" token rotates clockwise, and each governor starts the round by choosing a role.
Scoring
- Victory points are earned from buildings, shipping goods, and large buildings.
- Shipping tokens hide exact scores, adding strategic depth.
- Expansion sets add new buildings and nobles, enhancing gameplay.
Puerto Rico offers deep strategy in a colonial setting, with hidden scoring adding to the excitement.
Nominated for 12 awards and won 8.
⭐️ Nominated for Spiel des Jahres 2002
- 3 - 5 Players
- 90 - 150 Minutes
- 12+ years old
- Medium difficulty
We like Puerto Rico so much that we recommend it in the following board game recommendation lists 2024
- Position 4 in All "As d'Or - Jeu de l'Année"🇫🇷 2006 winners & nominees compared.
- Position 3 in All "Deutscher Spielepreis🇩🇪 2002" game award winners & nominees in comparison
- Position 4 in All "Spiel des Jahres🇩🇪 2002" game award winners & nominees in comparison
- Position 9 in The best action drafting board, card & dice games
- Position 19 in The best "Deutscher Spielepreis"🇩🇪 award winners and nominees
- Position 15 in The best farming board, card & dice games 🐄🚜
- Position 2 in The best games from Andreas Seyfarth 🇩🇪👨
- Position 12 in The Best Games from Alea 🇩🇪🏢
- Position 45 in The best games presented at the Spiel.digital 2020 fair
- Position 3 in The best games released in 2002📆
- Position 16 in The best games where unchosen resources increase in value 📈
- Position 7 in The best games where you can follow your own action to that of another player
- Position 28 in The best games with alternating starting player each round
- Position 14 in The best games with Variable Phase Order
- Position 63 in The Top ${items.length} games🥇 on Boardgamegeek (BGG)
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