Puerto Rico

Use the classic base-game setup for 3–5 players, including the appropriate supplies, starting money, plantations, and three cargo ships. Each player selects a different role once per round and takes its accumulated doubloons. Ordinary actions are generally optional, but legal loading in the captain phase is compulsory. After everyone has selected, add one doubloon to each of the three unused roles, return the roles, and pass the governor clockwise.

The settler may take a face-up plantation; the privilege allows a quarry instead. The island holds at most 12 tiles, which cannot be removed. The mayor may first take one bonus colonist from the supply, then distributes the ship’s colonists one at a time clockwise, starting with the mayor. Players may rearrange all old and new colonists; they cannot leave colonists in San Juan while posts remain empty. Refill the ship to the total empty building posts, with a minimum equal to the player count; plantation and quarry vacancies do not count.

In the builder phase, each player may build at most one building and may own only one of each kind. Large buildings occupy two adjacent city spaces; the city has 12 spaces. The builder pays one doubloon less, and occupied quarries reduce costs by at most 1/2/3/4 doubloons according to the building’s column, to a minimum cost of zero. New buildings normally need staffing in a mayor phase before functioning; buildings such as the university provide exceptions.

In the craftsman phase, occupied corn plantations produce corn directly. Indigo, sugar, tobacco, and coffee production is limited by the smaller of the occupied matching plantations and staffed processing posts, and by the public goods supply. After everyone produces, the craftsman may take one extra barrel of a kind they can produce if it remains available.

In the trader phase, each player may sell at most one barrel. The trading house holds four barrels and normally rejects kinds already present; an occupied office bypasses the kind restriction, but not the capacity limit. Corn/indigo/sugar/tobacco/coffee sell for 0/1/2/3/4 doubloons before bonuses; the trader gains one extra doubloon on a sale. Empty the house at phase end only if it is full.

In the captain phase, players repeatedly load clockwise from the captain. Legal loading is compulsory: choose one kind per loading turn and load as many of that kind as possible. When several empty ships are available, choose one allowing the most barrels of the chosen kind; different legal kinds may still be chosen freely. Each ship carries one kind, and no two public ships may carry the same kind. Each barrel earns 1 VP; the captain earns just one additional VP on their first shipment in the phase.

Only when nobody can load further do players check storage. Everyone may retain one barrel; an occupied small warehouse additionally protects all barrels of one kind, and a large warehouse protects two kinds. Both together protect three kinds. Return excess goods to the supply; warehouses do not prevent compulsory shipping. Finally empty full ships, leaving goods on partially filled ships for the next captain phase.

The end is triggered by insufficient colonists to refill the ship at the end of a mayor phase, a player filling their twelfth city space during building, or the VP-chip supply running out during shipping. Finish the entire current round so everyone completes their role selection; record further shipping points separately if chips run out. Score chips plus every building’s printed VP plus occupied large-building bonuses. Break a VP tie by the combined number of remaining doubloons and goods barrels.