Puerto Rico. The Game.
Posted on Thursday, March 16th, 2006 at 10:05 am under Games.Tags: board-games, puerto-rico
Two weeks ago we introduced Carcassonne to our friend Stephanie. This was her first german board game ever. It was new to her, easy to understand and it played fast. But it was time to break her into a more meatier game and last night we finally introduced her to my favorite game “Puerto Rico”. We spent four hours playing it. Yes, i did say four. Usually, we play it in about two but we had a first-timer and so we took a while explaining the rules and guiding her through her numerous choices. On top of that we had to pause for an intermission because our kids put a dressed up dancing show for us that was quite spectacular. Puerto Rico takes place during the colonization of the new world where you build plantations of crops to send to the old world. Funny observation though, plantations do need peons, and these game pieces are of dark color which makes them historically accurate since the new world was unfortunately developed with slave work. Now my friend is now officially hooked on it, just like everyone we’ve introduced this game to.
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Mar 16th, 2006 at 9:06 pm
A friend just bought this game which has been No.1 on Boardgamegeek for a long, long time now so really must have something going for it. I look forward to discovering what all the hype is about!
Apr 10th, 2006 at 9:06 am
[...] Saturday night our friends Scott and Amy came for BBQ, Firepit, and a night of gaming. For the board game, we got to chose the game that first got us into german board games, The Settlers of Catan. Settlers is a famous game amongst gamers. I has won numerous awards including game of the year. It also has gained an expansion set for more players and variations of the game like Seafarers of Catan and a Catan travel edition. Settlers plays in about an hour, it simpler than Puerto Rico, more complex than Carcassonne and very, very addictive. [...]