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MEBO Games  |  SKU: 31030884204595

Porto (Import)

€58.44 EUR
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Description
Designer Orlando Sá
Publisher MEBO Games
Players 1-4
Playing Time 30-45 mins
Suggested Age 8 and up
Honors 2020 JUGuinho Families Game of the Year Winner
2020 JUGuinho Families Game of the Year Finalist
2020 GEEKS d'OURO Best Board Game of the Year Winner
2019 5 Seasons Portuguese Game of the Year Winner
2019 5 Seasons Portuguese Game of the Year Nominee
2019 5 Seasons Best Portuguese Family Game Winner
2019 5 Seasons Best Portuguese Family Game Nominee
2019 5 Seasons Best Portuguese Artist Nominee

Note: This game includes English, Portuguese, Spanish and German. For a preview, English rule can be found here.

Porto, the iconic city in the north of Portugal, is known worldwide for Port wine and the beauty of its historical center.

Porto is a fast-playing, competitive tile-laying game driven by card play. On your turn, you either draw cards or build floors. If you draw cards, the total value of the drawn cards cannot exceed 3. (Cards have values between 1 and 3.)

If you build floors, you MUST play two cards from your hand. The number of one of the cards determines exactly how many floors you will build, and the color of the other card determines the color of those same floors. Thus, with only three cards in hand, you have six different possibilities for building; with more cards, your options increase even more! Building gives you the possibility of scoring points but also opens new possibilities for your opponents because buildings do not belong to any player. You might start a building that can be completed by other players, and it is this risk management that makes Porto a very interactive game in which paying attention to the moves of your opponents is crucial.

Build floors, gain bonus points by completing houses or by constructing in the most crucial spaces, fulfill public contracts by building at crucial moments and by chaining combos to make a very profitable turn, shape the city so that it complies with your private contracts in order to maximize them at the end of the game, but above all, capitalize on opportunities opened by your opponents on the board. That said, in Porto any missed opportunity will lead to a new array of possibilities.

The game end is triggered at the end of the round in which a certain number of buildings have been completed. The player with the most points wins.

—description from designer

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Shawn Clouthier
Hard to Find, but Well Worth that Effort

Kind of a mixing of TTR style card drafting with Copenhagen facade building to race to achieve various public and private objectives. On your turn choose 1 to 3 cards in five colored suites valued 1 to 3 or build 1 to 3 levels of a colored building of your choosing by playing previously drafted cards. Clever play will net you ground floor or rooftop bonuses, building bonuses, public goal bonuses and adjacency VPs and sometimes all four! So satisfying when you pull that off. The artwork is quirky and beautiful representing various stallwarts of Portuguese culture like Port wine, Mermaids and Dragons?? We unboxed today and already have three plays in, it's fast, fun and addictive. If you live in North America and want a copy Boardgame Bliss is about your only option currently. This one definitely deserves wider circulation and more appreciation. Very well done and entertaining!
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