| "PUERTO RICO" ECONOMY BOARD GAME DESCRIPTION:
Ranked #1 in the Internet Top 100 Games!
In PUERTO RICO, players assume the roles of colonial governors on the island of Puerto Rico during the age of Caribbean ascendancy. The aim of the game is to amass victory points, mainly by shipping goods to the Old World, or by constructing buildings.
The game consists of several different mechanisms which fit together in a carefully designed manner. Each player has a separate small board with spaces for city buildings, plantations, and resources, plus a character role.
During the resource cycle of the game, players grow crops which they exchange for points or money. The money can be used to buy buildings, which allows players to produce more crops or give them other abilities.
Throughout the game, players take on different roles (Captain, Mayor, etc.) in each round of the game.
Players get victory points for owning buildings, for shipping goods, and for manned "large buildings."
This is a great game to learn how business can work, and how economies are developed and have fun at the same time!
Game includes 6 game boards, 50 goods, 100 colonists, 8 quarry tiles, 50 plantation tiles, 54 coins, 50 victory point chips, 9 role cards, 50 buildings, 6 ships, and 1 rule booklet.
Ages 12 and up.
Michael Barbaro, Washington Post: "In this age of the PC gamer, ...shoppers are looking for something that combines the complex strategies of electronics with the face-to-face interactions of board games. The answer: sophisticated games like Puerto Rico, in which up to five players on an island compete to grow, process, and ship crops more efficiently than their competitors." |
