Details on the Puerto Rico 10th Anniversary Edition

Stefan Brück at alea has released an overview of Puerto Rico: Die Jubiläumsausgabe, the tenth anniversary edition of Andreas Seyfarth's Puerto Rico, which will first be available at Spiel 2011 to celebrate the game's impressive debut at Spiel 2001. The game hadn't been published at that time, but a production-ready copy was available for play and was raved about by all.

With more than 250,000 sales worldwide and a near-permanent position at the top of the BoardGameGeek rankings, Puerto Rico is one of the most respected games of modern times. This limited edition, packaged in a gold-embossed box, includes the base game as well as the new buildings that first appeared in 2002 in Spielbox magazine (and were later reprinted in Schatzkiste / Treasure Chest) and the Nobles expansion from Schatzkiste.

The cardboard doubloons are now sixty metal coins, while the fifty octagonal resources have been replaced with specially designed and colored wooden crates. The building tiles are now illustrated, and the cardboard for those tiles and other components are nearly 3 mm thick to give the bits more heft. (For those who haven't yet memorized all the buildings or who want the look of the original, the building tiles have the original version on the back.) The individual player boards, the VP tokens, the ships and other components have also been redesigned.

Puerto Rico: Die Jubiläumsausgabe retails for €60, debuts at Spiel 2011 (with no preorders being taken or needed), and will be available through the trade afterwards. German rules (PDF) are available on the Ravensburger website, Ravensburger being the parent company of alea.

Update, Sept. 20, 2011: I pinged a few questions at Stefan Brück, and he sent the following additional notes:

• Rio Grande Games will release an English-language edition of Puerto Rico: Die Jubiläumsausgabe. I'm waiting to hear from Jay Tummelson to confirm a release date and price.

• This will be the only item available from alea at Spiel 2011, and it will be sold at the large Heidelberger booth (9-108).

• The Dominion: Seaside coins were used for this promotional shot only because the real coins are still being produced. Says Brück, "They will be entirely different from the Dominion coins."

Update, Sept. 21, 2011: To continue the updates, Jay Tummelson sent me the following when I asked about the availability of and price for Puerto Rico: Die Jubiläumsausgabe in English: "We expect to release the game in October. The price is not yet firm." Everybody's waiting to see what happens in Greece, I think, before nailing down prices...