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Puerto Rico | 
| Brand: Rio Grande Games
Category: Toy
List Price: $44.99
Buy New: $27.07
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New (34) Collectible (1) from $27.07
Seller: MyAtomic
Rating:  70 reviews
Sales Rank: 585
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Fragile: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 12 - 99 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.5
Dimensions (in): 12.3 x 2.8 x 8.8
MPN: 0655132001953
Model: 4098399
UPC: 835769016692
EAN: 0835769016692
ASIN: B00008URUT
Release Date: May 1, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 4-5 business days
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| Features:
| • | One of the most popular Eurogames | | • | Brilliant mechanics | | • | Each player utilizes different roles to score the most victory points | | • | Great for game nights | | • | Everyone plays all the time |
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Product Description
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, Coffee, Sugar and Tobacco, 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. A novel 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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Showing reviews 1-5 of 70
 Great game August 9, 2010
Jeffrey L. Rodriguez (New Britain, CT)
A few friends and I have a game night once a week. I heard that this was a good game and decided to give it a try.
This game is GREAT! We play it all the time. It quickly became one of our favorites.
Elegent August 6, 2010
Jonas P. Tavela (Washington DC)
Puerto Rico is a great game that does more with less. One of the great things about PR is that if you have a steady group of players, you will find that someone will think they have a master strategy, that will eventually be destroyed by one of the other players. The one drawback is that newbies get crushed by those with experience, but same with chess or anything else with strategy and depth.
My favorite board game July 19, 2010
Nickolaos Fotopoulos (Murfreesboro, TN)
I don't really have anything valuable to add that isn't already included in the other 65 positive reviews. This is by far my favorite board game. The first time you play Puerto Rico it is easy to get caught up in the game mechanics and lose sight of the ultimate goal, which is the get the most Victory points. However once you have completed a single game and seen value of your strategy measured in Victory points, the diversity and depth of strategies available become apparent and clear from the very beginning of your second game.
TIP:
Don't read ahead in the manual on your first game, it will only serve to overwhelm you.
If you are playing with others that have played before then at the beginning of each of your turns read what you need to play that turn. Most importantly don't read while everyone else plays, instead watch what they do and how they play their turn.
If your with an entire group who has never played before, then walk through the setup steps, and then read the instructions for each phase as you get to it. Learning will be very easy this way and you will be playing without the rules in by the middle of the first game.
One of the best June 25, 2010
Eric Aderhold (Seattle, WA USA)
This is one of the best strategy board games I have ever played. In it, you and your opponents are engaged in an economic competition in colonial Puerto Rico. The object of the game is to obtain the most victory points, which are earned primarily by shipping crops overseas that your plantations have produced, and by constructing buildings in your corner of the island.
There are two things about this game that make it interesting for me. First, there is only a very small element of randomness to the game. Almost everything that happens is the direct result of the choices that you and your opponents make. Secondly, there are a number of different strategies that can be employed. The strategy you select is important, but equally important is your ability to adapt your strategy to what other players are doing. Directly competing against another player for the same thing is often less advantageous than finding a unique path that won't be impeded by your opponents.
The biggest downside to this game is the learning curve. New players are often turned off by the number of different rules and options that must be learned in order to be an effective player. Once you've gotten a hang of the basics, this is a very challenging and stimulating game.
A great game overall!!!!! the best i have play... May 24, 2010
Ismarie Raldiris Gonzalez (Puerto Rico)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is the best game i have play in my life!!! at first it a little hard to understand but once you learn everything it becomes addictive ...i recommend this game to everybody..so what are you waiting for!!!!
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