San Juan

San Juan is a card game inspired by the famous Puerto Rico, offering a strategic and dynamic experience. Players compete to build a city on a Caribbean island, using a deck of 110 cards that includes various production buildings, such as indigo, sugar, coffee, tobacco and silver. In addition to these, there are special violet-colored cards that offer unique abilities, allowing for a variety of strategies. The score is obtained only through the buildings constructed, and the game comes to an end once a player has managed to erect 12 buildings, creating an exciting challenge of planning and resource management.

Table of Contents
- How to Play
- Tips for playing
- Game mechanics
- Game components
- Additional Information

In the game San Juan, the main objective is to accumulate as many victory points as possible by constructing buildings and developing efficient strategies with the available cards. Players must manage their cards, which represent resources, buildings and special abilities, to build a prosperous city in Puerto Rico, taking advantage of the game's phases - such as production, construction and trade - to optimize their moves and overcome opponents until a certain number of structures have been built, at which point the game ends and the player with the most points wins.

Tips for playing

Here are some tips for doing better in the game San Juan:

• Build the Palace whenever possible, as it offers valuable victory points.
• Use the Mayor to make the most of the cards by producing goods whenever possible.
• Prioritize the construction of the Trade Building to maximize the number of cards in your hand.
• Manage your balance of investment and benefits well when constructing large and small buildings.
• Use the Chapel to strategically discard cards and silently accumulate points.
• Develop a flexible strategy, adapting to your opponents' constructions and choices.

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GAME mechanics

• Hand Management - In San Juan, players use cards as resources and buildings. Hand management is crucial, as cards are used both to pay for buildings and to be built. Players must decide which cards to discard and which to keep in order to cope with future strategies.
• Variable Phase Order - Each round of the game has phases that can take place in different orders, depending on the actions selected by the players. This mechanic keeps the game dynamic, allowing each turn to offer new strategic opportunities.
• Collecting Sets - Constructing certain buildings can increase victory points by collecting sets. By completing sets of related or synergistic buildings, players can unlock bonus abilities and increase their score at the end of the game.
• Follow Action - When one player chooses an action, the others can follow that action to a lesser extent. This allows all players to actively participate in each turn, keeping the game engaging and strategic, even outside of their main turn.
• Action Selection - In each round, players choose different actions to perform. This choice determines the activities available to all players in the round, encouraging tactical decisions and constant adaptation to the state of the game and opponents' decisions.

Game components

See all the items in the game below San Juan:

• 1 scoring pad
• 1 piece of the Ruler
• 5 function markers
• 5 trade tokens
• 110 cards from the main game
• 1 piece of cathedral
• 33 cards from the New Structures expansion

Additional Information

• Ludopedia link: https://ludopedia.com.br/jogo/san-juan
• Link Tabletopia:
• Amazon Brazil link: Comprar San Juan
• Amazon USA link: Comprar San Juan

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