Games I play...

Okay.. I shall introduce a new board game that I had the chance to play recently... The name of the boardgame is Puerto Rico. Yup, so here's the description.

The players are plantation owners in Puerto Rico in the days when ships had sails. Growing up to five different kind of crops: Corn, Indigo, Coffee, Sugar and Tobacco, they must try to run their business more efficiently than their close competitors; growing crops and storing them efficiently, developing San Juan with useful buildings, deploying their colonists to best effect, selling crops at the right time, and most importantly, shipping their goods back to Europe for maximum benefit.
A novel game system lets players choose the order of the phases in each turn by allowing each player to choose a role from those remaining when it is their turn. No role can be selected twice in the same round. The player who selects the best roles to advance their position during the game will win.

It's a boardgame that requires u to think a lot. Coz the tide of the game are constantly changing. Are u gonna go for a corn-heavy strategy or are you gonna go for the most expensive crop , Tobacco. Corn is the easiest to harvest with no need for processing whie tobacco and other crops require a factory to process them before you can ship them out for victory points. Every actions by another player will affect you and you have to think about your next few moves in advance.

I had lots of fun playing it with my friends and I would definitely recommend it to all of u! The gameplay is a bit complex but after playing a few times , u will get a hang of it. Anyway, it's ranked 2 at a boardgame forum and has lots of nice user reviews too. The game is for 2 to 5 players and has a average user rating of 8.37

So....If any of you go to mind's cafe or any local boardgames cafe.. be sure to check out this one!