Geeklists for Puerto Rico

GeekList: GCL Mafia Madness Round 1B

Board Game: Puerto Rico [Average Rating:8.26 Overall Rank:3]

Philip Newman

(mith)

United States
Richardson
Texas

MATCH 16
Puerto Rico vs. Brass

Finally, a huge first round matchup; not just top 100 games, top 10! Puerto Rico barely snuck in, though it nearly got a second nomination from my list. Robin nominated Puerto Rico, with a placement value of 4.93.

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Posted Fri Apr 6, 2012 4:51 am

Grace S

(ecargo)

United States
Missoula
Montana

Again, not really a Martin Wallace fan and though I don't hate Brass, PR is way more fun. Way, way, way more.

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James Keith

(touchstonethefool)

United States
San Leandro
California

"Watch, but do not govern; stop war, but do not wage it; protect, but do not control; and first, survive!" - Cordwainer Smith

...watch how I soar!

ecargo wrote:

My only thoughts on Wallace games afterward are usually "I was confused the whole time, but it was interesting." I never use the word "fun" to describe the experience.

I am not sure PR deserves to be #2, 3, or whatever BGG ranking it is but it is a good game.

Oh yes, you and I will get along just fine

Posted Sat Apr 7, 2012 6:45 am
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Neil Wilson

(petroleumjelly)

United States
Tacoma
Washington

Although I adore both games here, I am going with Puerto Rico because it plays well with anybody. Brass is only really good with experienced players who know what they are doing, in part because there are so many nit-picky rules that newer players forget while they are playing (such as: how to get coal, how to get iron, how to manage your loans, when canals are necessary, where you can build canals, why you can't build a Level 1 tile during the rail phase, why you can't just build rails anywhere...). Puerto Rico is simply far more accessible, and just as deep.

Posted Sat Apr 7, 2012 11:11 pm
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Jimmy Okolica

(Butterfly0038)

United States
Washington Township
Ohio

petroleumjelly wrote:

Although I adore both games here, I am going with Puerto Rico because it plays well with anybody. Brass is only really good with experienced players who know what they are doing, in part because there are so many nit-picky rules that newer players forget while they are playing (such as: how to get coal, how to get iron, how to manage your loans, when canals are necessary, where you can build canals, why you can't build a Level 1 tile during the rail phase, why you can't just build rails anywhere...). Puerto Rico is simply far more accessible, and just as deep.

I don't think it's quite as deep, but I do agree it's much more accessible. I think that's why I can't decide between them. They are both fun to play with Brass getting the edge in brain-burning and PR getting the edge in 2-player and accessibility.

Posted Sun Apr 8, 2012 5:31 am
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Aditya J

(Phoebus)

United States
Tallahassee
Florida

Voting Puerto Rico for a sense of nostalgia. I'm not sure it's a better game than Brass though...
Neil makes a good point about how it's more accessible.

My thin skin is also making me vote for PR due to the consistent stompings I suffer at Brass

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GeekList: Official 2012 Geek Madness Tournament: CHAMPIONSHIP

Board Game: Puerto Rico [Average Rating:8.26 Overall Rank:3]

Agricola - 2012 Aldie Award Winner

(Geek Madness)

United States

Indiana

For 3rd Place

01 Twilight Struggle vs. 03 Puerto Rico (& Limited Anniversary Edition)

Fifth Round: lost to Agricola 593-545
Fourth Round: d. 7 Wonders 814-583
Third Round: d. War of the Ring (& Collector's Edition) 828-557
Second Round: d. Crokinole 833-378
First Round: d. Carcassonne * 819-617

Comment: PR seemed to have good momentum in its anniversary year. But Agricola once again closes the door to the championship bout.

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Edited Fri Apr 6, 2012 12:33 pm
Posted Fri Apr 6, 2012 3:24 am

Andrés F. Pabón L.

(bacusgod)

Colombia
Bogotá
DC

I would love voting for TS. It's a great game. But in the end, it's a 3-4 hour long 2 player game, so I guess I have to vote for the more versatile one, which also happens to be a great game.

Posted Fri Apr 6, 2012 4:39 pm
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Andi Lee

(funnytortoise)

Indonesia
Jakarta
DKI Jakarta

Puerto Rico is the game that got me into serious boardgaming, and dearest to many people here on the geek.
As good as Twilight Struggle is, it is quite lengthy, very heavy and absolutely is not for everybody.
I have to vote for Puerto Rico here.

Posted Fri Apr 6, 2012 5:56 pm
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Ryan Frazier

(rylfrazier)

United States
West Sacramento
California

I really love this game. There's a reason it's a classic.

Posted Fri Apr 6, 2012 5:58 pm
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Efrain Rivera Junior

(ultraj1004)

United States

Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico should've won first place.

Posted Sun Apr 8, 2012 6:11 am
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GeekList: The Unnamable: Out of the Attic

Board Game: Puerto Rico [Average Rating:8.26 Overall Rank:3]

Amos Dillman

(amodman)

United States
Charleston
Illinois

Has anyone here not played Puerto Rico? Like it or not, it's a Euro/board game classic. I think that's pretty certain considering its longetivity at the top/near top of the BGG ranks.

But I didn't even know about BGG when I first played Puerto Rico. It's a role selection game wherein everyone is adding plantations to their player board to produce resources, building buildings to process and complete resource production and/or enhance their personal abilities, and getting worker to place and make those plantations/buildings actually work.

The ultimately goal is shipping off produced resources for VP, although the buildings you invest in with money are also worth VP themsleves (especially the end game 'prestige' type VP producing buildings). You can also sell resources in the market for money, though this can be sometimes difficult to do.

So the game is Euro Economic Engine building. You've got to get money and resources producing efficiently and fast to get them shipped for VP! The first time I played this game, I was blown away with how elegantly assembled the mechanics were. There is no 'luck' outside of whatever choices the other players make. And, at least IMO, all the roles one can select from each turn are all very useful and well designed. The whole thing just meshes nicely as though role selection and economic enging building were built for a game just like this.

There is no player interaction other than role selection, fitting goods in the marketplace, selecting from limited stocks of plantations/buildings available, and competing over space on the ships to send cargo back to Spain for VP.

I'm certainly in no rush to play PR myself as there are more games to try! But I like it. It's my personal favorite economic Euro that I've played. I'm usually up for a game when people are interested.

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Posted Fri Apr 6, 2012 7:37 pm

Jonathan Harrison

(HuginnGreiling)

United States
Fisher
Illinois

South Quarter Independent Games

Firp! ding! blast!

I will play this any time. Unlike probably everyone else here, I only started playing this a month or so ago. Went kind of backward, you might say. But I like it—a lot.

Posted Fri Apr 6, 2012 7:46 pm
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Josh E.

(arglez)

United States
Champaign
Illinois

I played once online which isn't very fair since I didn't have a teacher, but still... maybe a d10-2

depending on my mood, but I'm very uninterested in actually trying this game out. There's too many other Euros out there that I'm more interested in, and I'm not really much of a zero-conflict guy anyway.

Posted Fri Apr 6, 2012 8:10 pm
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Jesse Rouse

(Sikkibahm)

United States
Champaign
Illinois

It's not really zero conflict the way we play. There's a decent bit of sabotaging other player's plans by taking what you think they want or putting useless resources on a ship just so they can't use it. Not a lot of conflict by any means, but some.

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Posted Sat Apr 7, 2012 12:50 pm
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GeekList: Games played at Boardgames and Beyond Hackney 02.04.12

Board Game: Puerto Rico [Average Rating:8.26 Overall Rank:3]

Martin G

(qwertymartin)

United Kingdom
London

Ironically, two of the very few people who came along having not heard of LoB were determined to play something much heavier than we'd planned!

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Posted Thu Apr 5, 2012 11:21 am

GeekList: Celebrating my one year geekiversary with a look back at my first year in the hobby

Board Game: Puerto Rico [Average Rating:8.26 Overall Rank:3]

Todd Baker

(LycanBlood)

United States
Elmira
New York

1/12/2011
I had given this to my youngest sister and her husband as a Christmas present. They weren't fans of the game so I ended up trading them my copy of Stone Age for this because they both loved SA a lot more.

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Posted Thu Apr 5, 2012 3:14 am

GeekList: "Hi There!" Scott Nicholson Tribute List

Board Game: Puerto Rico [Average Rating:8.26 Overall Rank:3]

Warren Smith

(h00sha)

Canada
Calgary
Alberta

"And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed"

Just shortly after my journey had begun with Setlers and TTR, I decided that I wanted to know what was so great about the #1 game (at the time). I figured that if this guy can invest countless hours in putting one of these videos together, I sure as heck can sit down and watch one from beginning to end. I am glad I did. Thanks Scott!

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Posted Thu Apr 5, 2012 9:48 pm

Jeremy Mayfield

(hardcase)

United States
Russellville
Alabama

This was my first Boardgames with Scott video. After watching it, I ended up finding the game on sale at a Hobbytown USA store a week or two later, and grab it. Only the first of many times this happened. Way to be an enabler, Scott!

Posted Thu Apr 5, 2012 10:11 pm
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Len

(LSMB)

United States
Austin
Texas

Simply the best PR review out there. Great explanation about the game mechanics and why PR is such a great game. I watched this a couple of times before my first game.

Posted Fri Apr 6, 2012 2:25 am
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Tim Thornhill

(Tim Thornhill)

United States
Ashland
Oregon

I just re-watched this video, and realized that we had been playing wrong:

The craftsman privilege only allows you to receive a good that you can already produce. D'oh! shake

Posted Fri Apr 6, 2012 4:44 am
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Mat Thomsen

(Madcapmartini)

United States
Medway
Massachusetts

This is his Hall-of-Fame video. Just fantastic! Thank you Scott. Love the "secret" ending.

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GeekList: games i played

Board Game: Puerto Rico [Average Rating:8.26 Overall Rank:3]

marc verrept

(marcverrept)

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Posted Wed Apr 4, 2012 10:09 pm

GeekList: Games that the Summoner Wars Master Set Totally Ripped off!

Board Game: Puerto Rico [Average Rating:8.26 Overall Rank:3]

James Sitz

(Jexik)

United States

Illinois

This is the best 2-player game on BGG and it was also ripped off by San Juan, so clearly Summoner Wars Master Set ripped it off too!

Picking a Summoner is the same thing as role selection, right?

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Posted Wed Apr 4, 2012 6:48 pm

GeekList: Wednesday Gaming

Board Game: Puerto Rico [Average Rating:8.26 Overall Rank:3]

ronaldinho @boardspace.net

(drunkenKOALA)

Taiwan

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Posted Wed Apr 4, 2012 6:20 pm

ronaldinho @boardspace.net

(drunkenKOALA)

Taiwan

3er. Dog King won with 45 points. Guanin and I both had 40.

Guanin kept letting Dog King take corn. Dog King ended up with 5 corns, and won with a Large Wharf.

Guanin and I both went a builder strategy.

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GeekList: Top 50: Plays per Owner

Board Game: Puerto Rico [Average Rating:8.26 Overall Rank:3]

Mark Embley

(drummermark)

United States
Gaithersburg
Maryland

Owners / Plays / Plays Per Owner
27995 / 79772 / 2.85

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Posted Wed Apr 4, 2012 4:37 am

GeekList: Meatball Madness Round 3

Board Game: Puerto Rico [Average Rating:8.26 Overall Rank:3]

Lee Ambolt

(ldsdbomber)

Sweden
Lund
Skåne

Ingen Reklam Tack!

Linus Per Ambolt 13.12.2010

MATCH 3

A former best of BGG featuring wooden brown discs

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Posted Tue Apr 3, 2012 11:46 pm

Lee Ambolt

(ldsdbomber)

Sweden
Lund
Skåne

Ingen Reklam Tack!

Linus Per Ambolt 13.12.2010

I'm extremely susceptible to being convinced to vote for Backgammon, just so you know.

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Matt Tonks

(tonksey)

United Kingdom

Bedfordshire

Again, I've never played Backgammon & really like Puerto Rico. So PR gets my vote.

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Patrick Carroll

(Patrick Carroll)

United States
Carver
Minnesota

"If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly." (GK Chesterton)

"That's how the light gets in." (Leonard Cohen)

tonksey wrote:

Again, I've never played Backgammon & really like Puerto Rico. So PR gets my vote.

You need to be voting for never-yet-played games that have limitless potential, rather than fad games you're infatuated with but will soon outgrow.

Posted Wed Apr 4, 2012 4:42 pm
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Matt Tonks

(tonksey)

United Kingdom

Bedfordshire

Patrick Carroll wrote:

You need to be voting for never-yet-played games that have limitless potential, rather than fad games you're infatuated with but will soon outgrow.

Why? I might not play it all the time, but I don't think I'd ever get fed-up of playing Puerto Rico.

Posted Wed Apr 4, 2012 4:48 pm
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Lee Ambolt

(ldsdbomber)

Sweden
Lund
Skåne

Ingen Reklam Tack!

Linus Per Ambolt 13.12.2010

PUERTO RICO SAILS INTO THE QUARTERS!

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GeekList: March- no- April madness- Adventures with He-ples 4/2/2012 SABG

Board Game: Puerto Rico [Average Rating:8.26 Overall Rank:3]

Michael Stone

(stoneart69)

United States
San Antonio
Texas

3 player game light and fast, 33,20,20.

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Posted Tue Apr 3, 2012 1:51 pm

GeekList: April 2012 Benelux Math Trade [EU]

Board Game: Puerto Rico [Average Rating:8.26 Overall Rank:3]

andy

(andy)

Belgium
bredene

Do you not see?

That if you kill him with the pill from the till by making with it the drug in the jug, you need not light the candle with the handle on the gâteau from the château.

Good condition of this german Alea game.
Free shipping within Belgium. Other countries first 4 euros on me.

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Posted Tue Apr 3, 2012 6:39 pm

GeekList: Boardgames and Bands

Board Game: Puerto Rico [Average Rating:8.26 Overall Rank:3]

Roel Theuws

(Roel81)

China
Guangzhou / Eersel

U2

both are innovative and have a core of followers that'll always be there. There are also a lot of haters that feel strongly about them. All in all a classic band / game that will be in top something lists for years to come.

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Posted Mon Apr 2, 2012 4:23 pm

Alan Gaskell

(VALIS13)

England
Wigan
Lancashire

This is an uncanny comparison.

Both are so tediously middle of the road that they offend me deeply.

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Roel Theuws

(Roel81)

China
Guangzhou / Eersel

Hhhmmm, I think a game / band that doesn't strike strong opinions is middle of the road. These two seem to do quite the opposite.

Furthermore I think that an album like Discotheque is more innovative than middle of the road.

Btw I do agree with your high rating of Intrigue, I love that game

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GeekList: Your Thrift Store / Bargain Finds: 2-8 April 2012

Board Game: Puerto Rico [Average Rating:8.26 Overall Rank:3]

Cadrian

(Bakelite)

Canada
Vancouver
British Columbia

Rio Grande version of Puerto Rico, IN SHRINK! Spotted it from across the store and more or less teleported directly to it. Couldn't believe t when I saw it was in shrink.

$2.50 from

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Posted Tue Apr 3, 2012 12:49 am

Steve Fox

(Hiddnfox)

United States
Salt Lake City
Utah

Nice! beats my unpunched one I found a few weeks ago

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Cadrian

(Bakelite)

Canada
Vancouver
British Columbia

They don't tend to distinguish at the SA where I found it, but it was amongst a pile of puzzles.

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Lord

(Juxtatype)

Canada
Vancouver

Robrob wrote:

Out of curiosity, was it in the puzzles section?

Bakelite wrote:

They don't tend to distinguish at the SA where I found it, but it was amongst a pile of puzzles.

They don't distinguish because this particular Sally Ann can very fairly be described as a dump. yuk

Literally. The room where they put games has a large trough and they just dump all of their bins into it.

However, Cadrian's finds will never cease to make me weep cry

as I used to go to that SA frequently and never found so much as a sausage. But when I met Cadrian, he stuck me as a first-class fellow so I am pleased that these great games are going to him. meeple

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Danny's Land

(ridetheory)

Milwaukie
OR

I've got SHOES older than you!

Juxtatype wrote:

However, Cadrian's finds will never cease to make me weep cry

as I used to go to that SA frequently and never found so much as a sausage.

You should come down to the SA on 82nd in PDX someday; they sell hot dogs in the cafe.

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Eric Portney

(Fugazi2112)

United States
Bremerton
WA

But never atta' price worth payin. That'd be cuttin' their own throat, ya see.

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GeekList: BGG Top 50 Statistics : from 01 Mar 12 to 01 Apr 12

Board Game: Puerto Rico [Average Rating:8.26 Overall Rank:3]

Tom Verdonck

(LordT)

Belgium
Edegem
Antwerp

Ranking : from 3 to 3 = 0
Highest Ever : 1 (diff. to current = -2)

Rating : from 8.166 to 8.164 = -0.002
Highest Ever : 8.460 (diff. to current = -0.296)

Votes : from 26477 to 26782 = +305

Owners : from 27663 to 27995 = +332

Plays : from 78674 to 79772 = +1098

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Posted Mon Apr 2, 2012 9:18 am

GeekList: PzVIE's very individual list of games that left an impression on his gaming career

Board Game: Puerto Rico [Average Rating:8.26 Overall Rank:3]

Ron

(PzVIE)

Austria
Vienna

ASL ... yes, this is my Desert Island Game. If I have to give up all my 3000+ games and only allowed to keep one, this would be it. This bloody game stood the test of time. Around for more than 25 years - simply the best.

Devote follower of the most holy church of the Evil Bob. Possessed and down the road to become chaotic, evil & naughty. All hail the Evil Bob and his stargate.

When History of the World is my Ameritrash icon, then Puerto Rico is my Eurogame icon.

A great, nearly flawless design and an archetype for many Eurogames that followed.

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Posted Mon Apr 2, 2012 8:27 am

GeekList: Friday Yangming: 2012/03/30

Board Game: Puerto Rico [Average Rating:8.26 Overall Rank:3]

ronaldinho @boardspace.net

(drunkenKOALA)

Taiwan

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Posted Mon Apr 2, 2012 4:53 am

GeekList: Indianapolis Area No-Ship Math Trade

Board Game: Puerto Rico [Average Rating:8.26 Overall Rank:3]

Sheamus Parkes

(Isamoor)

United States
Indianapolis
Indiana

Ravensburg edition.

Bought new and in great shape. But not in the original box. In a nice plastic Project Case clam shell.

Sweetner: All the expansions. Original buildings expansion and later nobles expansion.

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Posted Fri Apr 6, 2012 2:01 pm

GeekList: Official 2012 Geek Madness Tournament: Final Four (Rd. 5) - VOTING CLOSED

Board Game: Puerto Rico [Average Rating:8.26 Overall Rank:3]

Agricola - 2012 Aldie Award Winner

(Geek Madness)

United States

Indiana

02 Agricola vs. 03 Puerto Rico (& Limited Anniversary Edition)

Fourth Round: d. 7 Wonders 814-583
Third Round: d. War of the Ring (& Collector's Edition) 828-557
Second Round: d. Crokinole 833-378
First Round: d. Carcassonne * 819-617

Comment: 7 Wonders gets the small victory in preventing PR from taking the most votes again this round.

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Posted Sun Apr 1, 2012 11:56 pm

Tiago VIP

(tiagoVIP)

Brazil

Will you still look into my eyes with warmth even if you saw my shadows?

How many strips there are?

Puerto Rico or Agricola? Hum. I can't say if either deserve the effort to rise my thumb.

But, of the two, Puerto Rico appears to be the most innovative when it came out.

So, there. PR, then.

Posted Mon Apr 2, 2012 2:22 am
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Nick Cooper

(Caliburn)

United Kingdom
Stoke-On-Trent
Unspecified

This is the tie where I honestly couldn't bring myself to vote, because I don't like EITHER of them. Instead I voted for Spacer 2.

Edited Tue Apr 3, 2012 9:56 pm
Posted Tue Apr 3, 2012 9:55 pm
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(Osiris Ra)

United States

New York

When the world hands you a Jeffrey, furry walls will make it fine.

ultraj1004 wrote:

Come on Puerto Rico fans! Agricola is not a better game.

Understatement will get you ... somewhere. Neither is a better game.

Posted Thu Apr 5, 2012 2:45 pm
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Ludovic Roy

(Luds)

Canada
Gatineau
Québec

hectortillado wrote:

I know I'm new here but why isn't Puerto Rico winning by a landslide? Puerto Rico is the best game every made.

It sure is! If it's the only game you've ever played...

Posted Thu Apr 5, 2012 3:18 pm
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Efrain Rivera Junior

(ultraj1004)

United States

Puerto Rico

Luds wrote:

hectortillado wrote:

I know I'm new here but why isn't Puerto Rico winning by a landslide? Puerto Rico is the best game every made.

It sure is! If it's the only game you've ever played...

I'm a game collector. So I've played many games. And I agree with Hector. Puerto Rico is by far the best game ever.

Posted Thu Apr 5, 2012 11:14 pm
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GeekList: Thursday March 29 SABG does it oldschool.

Board Game: Puerto Rico [Average Rating:8.26 Overall Rank:3]

Michael Stone

(stoneart69)

United States
San Antonio
Texas

51, 50, 36, 35, 34

a nice tight little race to colonize the island.

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Posted Fri Mar 30, 2012 1:58 pm

GeekList: Set up the game ahead of time! Brilliant! Wait...I need to know how many are playing first?

Board Game: Puerto Rico [Average Rating:8.26 Overall Rank:3]

Brian Dudte

(etchasketch2001)

United States
Amelia
Ohio

You need to know how many people are playing in order to set up the colonists, victory points, and which ships to use.

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Edited Wed Mar 28, 2012 11:13 pm
Posted Wed Mar 28, 2012 11:07 pm

Tim Thornhill

(Tim Thornhill)

United States
Ashland
Oregon

I don't remember which geeklist, but somebody recently mentioned that they had their game organized like below:

One bag that contained the colonists for a 3p game

another (labeled) bag that contained the number of colonists added for a 4p game

A seperate bag to add for 5p

And the same system for VP chits.

This would greatly streamline setup and when packing up, you only need to count out the pieces for the 4p and 5p bags...

Edited Thu Mar 29, 2012 7:23 pm
Posted Thu Mar 29, 2012 7:23 pm
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Christopher DeFrisco

(cdefrisco)

United States
Ashland
Oregon

Posted Thu Mar 29, 2012 8:44 pm
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GeekList: Stammtisch am 27.03.2012 im Cafe Merlin mit 27 Teilnehmern

Board Game: Puerto Rico [Average Rating:8.26 Overall Rank:3]

Thorsten Englert

(brettspieletreff)

Germany
Stuttgart
Germany

2 Mitspieler

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Posted Wed Mar 28, 2012 10:50 am

GeekList: Gamestorm 14 - Another year another adventure

Board Game: Puerto Rico [Average Rating:8.26 Overall Rank:3]

Atomic wedgie

(autumnweave)

United States
Vancouver
Washington

Late Saturday, The wind down for me. Believe it or not, I've only played this a few times, and my last was 3 years ago. My brain had melted during Eclipse, so this was a nice way to wind up.

Looking forward to seeing everyone next year.