A card game based on Puerto Rico. The pack of 110 cards consists of production buildings (indigo, sugar, tobacco, coffee, and silver) and "violet" buildings that grant special powers or extra victory points. Cards from the hand can be either built or used as money to build something else. Cards from the deck are used to represent goods produced by the production buildings, in which case they are left face-down. A seven-card hand limit is enforced once per round.
In each round or governorship, each player in turn selects from one of the available roles, triggering an event that usually affects all players, such as producing goods or building. The person who picks the role gets a privilege, such as producing more goods or building more cheaply.
Though similar in concept to Puerto Rico, the game has many different mechanics. In particular, there are no colonists and no shipping of goods; goods production and trading are normally limited to one card per phase; and trades cannot be blocked.
Victory points are gained exclusively by building, and the game ends as soon as one player has put up 12 buildings.
Feuerteufel. Dutch website supporting live play and asynchronous play-by-web (Now with notification emails!). For non-Dutch speakers/readers, using Google Translate (e.g., with Google Chrome or with the Google Toolbar in Firefox, or even through translate.google.com) works pretty well!
A player's aid listing all buildings in San Juan, including the "New Buildings Expansion" from Treasure Chest. This document is intended to be printed on a single sheet, double sided.
The front side shows all buildings alphabetically, including costs, VP, and a description. The back side organizes the buildings by cost.
Play against a "computer" whose actions are determined by the roll of a die. Only additional material needed is a print out of the computer's actions board (included) and 2 dice (not included).
Contains 2 pdf files. One file is the rules and the other is the game board needed to play.
Extensively play tested and complete.
Raspechatat' na standartnom A4 liste, perevernut', raspechatat' na obratnoi storone, razrezat' list popolam, zalaminirovat' poluchivshiesja A5-podskazki, kotorye svobodno pomeschajutsja v kororobku s igroi.
Ja ne lublu pasteups po mnogim prichinam, i eti podskazki udobny dlja novyh igrokov v techenie pervyh pary igr. Potom, dazhe uchivshij jazyk po videoigrushkam zapomnit te neskolko slov chto on ne znal i legko budet obhoditsja bez nih.
[hm, ajax-interface BGG ne rabotaet s kirillicej chtoli]