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| San Juan |
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| from Rio Grande Games |
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$17.95 |
| List Price: |
$29.95 |
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$12.00 |
| Condition: |
New |
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In Stock
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| GAME DESCRIPTION |
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Puerto Rico’s golden age returns. Through you! Players travel now to the capital city of this beautiful island. Who will build the most important buildings? Players build palaces, poor houses, silver smelters, gold mines, and many others - each with its own special features. The cleverest player will build well and win!
As with the board game, players choose roles which can help all players, but the choosing player gets a special privilege with the role chosen. Players build buildings, produce and sell goods, and so on. The game is based on Puerto Rico, but different enough to give players new challenges and opportunities for fun and enjoyment.
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| CUSTOMER REVIEWS |
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Mario Aguila (5 out of 5)
Esta reseña tiene por finalidad mostrar de qué se trata este juego, destinado especialmente a quienes deseen jugarlo o comprarlo.
Por lo anterior, me centraré más en la mecánica, que es lo útil para decidir lo anterior, y no tanto en la temática, que para estos efectos es secundario. Tampoco tiene por finalidad esta reseña el dar un detallado análisis de las reglas, que para eso hay un link en BGG.
Pues bien, San Juan no es más que un buen juego de cartas, donde aparte de ellas, no se necesita casi nada más.
Claro que cada carta tiene una función especial, muy distinta a las que se encuentran en un mazo inglés.
OBJETO DEL JUEGO:
La finalidad del juego es juntar la mayor cantidad de pu
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- 4/1/2005
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Dr. Matt J. Carlson (5 out of 5)
It might be best to consider this game as placed in the same game "setting" as Puerto Rico rather than try to think of it as a reduced version of the popular multiplayer strategy game. San Juan has some of the same flavor, in that you are constructing buildings, aquiring goods, and trying to sell them to then build more buildings. You also have a choice of actions during your turn, which ever action you choose will also be taken by all other players. A minor drawback of the game lies in the lack of direct player-player interaction. I find that there is enough to satisfy me, but I know others who complain that the game borders on group solitaire.
I enjoy San Juan for the following reasons:
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- 7/31/2004
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Shin Yoo (4 out of 5)
San Juan, number 5 of Alea's small box series is probably the most anticipated game among those recently released. Of course the reason is that San Juan is a sequel card game to the big, big hit game Puerto Rico. Naturally every gamer focused on how this game will construct the complex game system of Puerto Rico.
In a word, Andreas Seyfarth succeeded in making a streamlined, attractive system. Instead of transferring every bits of Puerto Rico into this new game(what would be new then?), it seems like he concentrated to revive the feel of playing Puerto Rico. And San Juan indeed lives up to the name "Puerto Rico Lite".
The first thing we notice in San Juan is the unique use of cards.
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- 7/28/2004
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SkookumPete (4 out of 5)
Let's forget Puerto Rico; this is a different game. The essential mechanics are these:
In every round, each player in turn gets to choose from the available roles such as Producer, Trader, and Builder. When a role is picked, all players take an action associated with that role, such as producing a good, selling one, or putting up a new building. The person who chooses the role gets a special privilege, such as producing or trading an extra good, or buying a building at a discount.
Cards represent buildings, money, and goods. You can hold up to seven cards in your hand, but this limit is enforced only once per round. As goods, cards are never put in the hand but are just left face down,
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- 4/16/2004
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John (4 out of 5)
This weekend, my friend and I played the newly released San Juan, and were both very impressed. It would be short-sighted to dismiss this game as "Puerto Rico Lite". While some game elements have been streamlined, there's still a lot of strategy, and multiple paths to victory. In San Juan, the cards represent three things: A card in your hand is cash that you discard to pay for buildings. A card in play face-up, is a building. A card in play face-down (on a production building) is considered a good that can be sold for "cash" (more cards in your hand).
The saddest casualty in the translation from boardgame to cardgame, is the omission of the unique "sweetening" element from the original
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- 4/5/2004
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