As I mentioned in an earlier post, I discovered the one of my favorite games, Puerto Rico, had two expansions that I of course had to purchase, and they arrived for us to try out at board game night on Sunday. We started with expansion #1, which added some fun new buildings and a new Forest plantation. I preselected which buildings to start the game with, a mix of the old and the new for us to get a handle on how the new buildings operate, but next time we play, we will do what the game recommends and have all the players take turns picking which buildings should be included in the game as a part of the set up of the game (which sounds very exciting). The new buildings all had great mechanics (for example, "Black Market" allows you to trade in a colonist, a point token, and/or a resource token to spend as money, and the "Library" allows you to double your role privilege) which definitely effected the game play, so much so that for the first time ever, the end of the game was triggered after all the point tokens were gone, instead of the usual way, which is when all the colonist tokens are gone. And of course the newbie player won (since he was getting advice from all of us for what to do) with 43 points, I got second place with 40, two people tried for third with 39 points, and last place had 36 points, all a ridiculously high and close scoring. It was a delightful experience to see how much just a few new buildings and mechanics could so drastically effect the game play, and I am excited to try expansion #2 which adds a new "Noble" token and a bunch buildings and points opportunities related to the Nobles.
With delight,
♥Jamie
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