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Puerto Rico (2002)

Average Rating: 8.26/10
Board Game Rank: 3
Strategy Game Rank: 4
Information
Designer
Artist
Publisher
Year Published
2002
# of Players
2 − 5
User Suggested # of Players
Best with 4 players
Recommended with 3, 4, 5 players
(840 voters) [poll]
Playing Time
90 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages
12 and up
User Suggested Ages
12 and up
(188 voters) [poll]
Language Dependence
Moderate in-game text - needs crib sheet or paste ups
(243 voters) [poll]
Honors
Subdomain
(293 voters) [vote]
Category
Mechanic
Expansion
Expands
Family
Primary Name
Puerto Rico
Alternate Names
Πουέρτο Ρίκο
波多黎各
푸에르토 리코
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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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This game is #7 in the Alea big box series.

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Contents:

  • 5 Individual Player Boards
  • 1 Governor Card
  • 8 Role Cards (Settler, Mayor, Builder, Craftsman, Trader, Captain, 2 Prospectors)
  • 1 Gameboard
  • 49 Building Tiles (5 Large Violet, 24 Small Violet, 20 Non-Violet Production)
  • 54 Doubloons (46 x "1", 8 x "5")
  • 58 Island Tiles (8 Quarry Tiles, 50 Plantation Tiles)
  • 1 Colonist Ship
  • 100 Colonists
  • 1 Trading House
  • 50 Goods (9 Coffee, 9 Tobacco, 10 Corn, 11 Sugar, 11 Indigo)
  • 5 Cargo Ships
  • 50 Victory Point Chips (32 x "1", 18 x "5")
  • Rule Booklet

Game balance fixes

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)

Two player variant

An official variant has been released by Alea (File), although other popular variants also exist (Overview of two player variants).

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Puerto Rico
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Spanish Second Edition
Publisher: Devir
Artist: 
Year: 2012
Size: Medium Rectangle (e.g. Agricola)
Spanish
Release Date:  Jun 2012
Unreleased
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Puerto Rico
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Finnish / Swedish second edition
Publisher: Lautapelit.fi
Artist: Franz Vohwinkel
Year: 2011
Size:  
Finnish, Swedish
Release Date:   
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Πουέρτο Ρίκο
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Greek edition
Publisher: Kaissa Chess & Games
Artist: 
Year: 2011
Product Code: KA111007
Size:  
Greek
Release Date:   
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波多黎各
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Chinese Edition
Publisher: Swan Panasia Co., Ltd.
Artist: Franz Vohwinkel
Year: 2010
Size: 12.40 x 10.70 x 2.20 inches
Chinese
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Puerto Rico
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Filosofia Edition
Publisher: Filosofia Édition
Artist: Franz Vohwinkel
Year: 2009
Size:  
French
Release Date:   
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8 Puerto Rico expansion~ The Shadow Games
PR Expansion: "The Shadow Games ~ Twilight Struggle ~" Balanced version 3.0 Based on: -MrZoz Pirate Card for Puerto Rico TM Gamma by Mr Zoz and -PR_Expansion_the_Thief.PDF by John Snell Puerto Rico : "The Game of Shadows" expansion add new add on and new challenges to experienced Puerto Rico players like the guardians, insurance rules, and two modification roles Have the Nice Game!
2012-04-14
0 Plateau de jeu pour 6 joueurs
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.
2011-11-25
0 Feuille de score pour PR
Feuille de score avec récapitulatif des grands bâtiments au format PDF.
2011-11-04
2 Puerto Rico Setup Aids
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
2011-10-31
0 Extension 6ieme joueur FR
Règles et tuiles à imprimer pour un 6ième joueur en français.
2011-09-15
7 Speed-optimised and improved Puerto Rico Evolver
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/
2011-06-17
16 Official Puerto Rico Expansions & Variants
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. [imageid=981318 inline][imageid=981317 inline] Ver. 1.0 (June, 2011)
2011-06-03
5 Combined Alea & Fernori 2P Puerto Rico Variant
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!
2011-05-07
4 Play-aid das construções em português
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
2011-05-04
4 Play-Aid - Papeis e Ações em Português
Play-aid in portuguese with all the roles and respective actions - Play-Aid em português com todos os papeis e as respectivas ações - Version 1.0
2011-05-04
Statistics
Board Game Rank: 3
Strategy Game Rank: 4
Num Ratings: 27298
Average Rating: 8.26
Standard Deviation: 1.40
Num Views: 1871761
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Avg. Game Weight: 3.3
Fans: 1685
Personal Comments: 7289
Users Owning: 28645
Users Wanting: 667
Users Trading: 498 [find trade matches]
Has Parts For Trade: 13
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Total Plays: 81589
Plays This Month: 736
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