The players are plantation owners in Puerto Rico in the days when ships had sails. Growing up to five different kind of crops—corn, indigo, sugar, tobacco, and coffee—they must try to run their business more efficiently than their close competitors: growing crops and storing them efficiently, developing San Juan with useful buildings, deploying their colonists to best effect, selling crops at the right time, and, most importantly, shipping their goods back to Europe for maximum benefit.
The game system lets players choose the order of the phases in each turn by allowing each player to choose a role from those remaining when it is their turn. No role can be selected twice in the same round. The player who selects the best roles to advance their position during the game will win.
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The following changes should be made to the official rules in order to create a more balanced game and one which gives each player an (almost) equal chance of winning:
The prices of the Factory and University buildings should be swapped so that the Factory costs 8 doubloons and the University costs 7 doubloons. (Source: Interview with Andreas Seyfarth)
Any players that start with a corn plantation should start with 1 doubloon less than the players that start with an indigo plantation. (Proof/discussion)
Plateau de jeu en français pour 6 joueurs au format A3. Permet de jouer avec 6 petits bâtiments roses par catégorie et avec un grand bâtiment supplémentaire.
Storage inserts and reference cards to speed up your setup. Divides the variable components of game setup based on player number. Playing 2 player game? Use the 2+ player bags. 3 player? The 2+ and 3+ bags and so on. Also includes cards summarizing setup. Themed to fit in with existing game materials (to the best of my limited abilities :)) Note: references to 2 player game are for the Kungfro variant.
Version 1.3 (Oct 2011)
Version 1.4 (Jan 2012) - Changed setup card for 5 player game to show correct number of prospector role cards
A brand new 2 player version of the much-improved Puerto Rico Evolver spreadsheet. The 3-5 player version was originally by Tony Mitton, and main areas of improvement include:
1) Massive speed improvement (around 25-30 times faster!)
2) New evolutionary options, including ability to block a boat with a monopolised good
3) Bug fixes
This AI has been converted line-to-line in to Java and is included as the CPU Hard player in Tropic Euro ( www.tropiceuro.com)
Please see the dedicated page on the Tropic Euro website for the latest version and also for spreadsheets which contain the best players generated so far, including the ones currently active in Tropic Euro: http://www.tropiceuro.com/puerto-rico-evolver/
Detailed overview of all the cards for the "New Buildings" expansion and "Nobles" expansion, as well as an overview of the University-Factory Price Swap variant, and the Official 2 Player variant along with some popular alternatives to it.
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Ver. 1.0 (June, 2011)
Disclaimer - I wanted to try playing Puerto Rico with my hubby instead of waiting for 3 or more players so I decided to combine the official Alea 2P variant with recommendations from the Fernori 2P variant from BGG. Play and winning is as per the original (not official variant) game rules for multi-players. Kindly geek-mail your feedback or amendments (if any) as I’m relatively new to PR game so your expert advice would be much appreciated. No ill-intention. Just trying to be helpful by combining both variants & sharing with everyone here. Happy Gaming!
Play-aid with every construction in portuguese (based on the german tiles) - Play-aid com todas as construções em português (baseado nas peças em alemão) - Version 1.0
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