Presentation

Santo Domingo

Seals from the admiral

If you want to make good profit by trading goods in the harbor of Santo Domingo, you need the right person and a suitable ship. You hold eight cards, numbered 1 to 8: 1 Captain, 2 Admiral, 3 Governor, 4 Frigate, 5 Galleon, 6 Customs, 7 Trader and 8 Beggar.

A round begins with advancing of three markers for victory points, goods and traders on tracks on the board to replenish stock and adjust exchange rates. You play a card face-down; then cards are revealed simultaneously and resolved in ascending order: 1, 2 and 6 give you points, 3, 4 and 5 give you goods; you mark both on your corresponding display card. Trader 7 swaps goods for points, Beggar 9 gives you goods and you can take cards back in hand. Identical cards are resolved at the same time: the players involved receive one good or point in turn, - the marker is always immediately adjusted - until all players have received the maximum or stock is empty. If more than one trader was played, the trader marker is put back two cases for the second and each additional trader and then you can use a played trader to swap goods for points according to the marker’s position. Then the marker is placed on case 0. For some of the cards the points and goods that you receive are not taken from stock, but are only marked on your display card. If someone has 30 or more victory points, you win at the end of the round with most victory points.

The familiar elements from Port Royal and the mechanisms from Visby have been adapted elegantly and interestingly; the Winter variant with a more difficult trading is also of interest to more experienced players.

Players: 2-6

Age: 8+

Time: 30+

Designer: Stefan Risthaus

Artist: Klemens Franz, Andrea Kattnig, Jens Wiese

Price: ca.10 Euro

Publisher: Pegasus Spiele 2017

Web: www.pegasus.de

Genre: Cards

Users: For families

Version: multi

Rules: de en

In-game text: no

Comments:

Adaptation von Visby

Nice combination of elements from Port Royal and Visby

Absolutely independent, well-working game

Winter Version for more experienced players

Compares to:

Port Royal for background, Visby for mechanisms

Other editions:

Currently none

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