<p>In my opinion, a player's <strong>island</strong> is their game board, unless explicitly referring to plantations.  Its semantically tricky, as the island on the board contains San Juan which is implicitly the player's city.</p>

<p>I admit, that's kind of shaky reasoning.</p>

<p>With regards to the Royal Garden explicitly, an unofficial translation of the original rules was:</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>At game’s end the owner of the Garden
  gains 2 VP for each Noble he owns
  instead of the usual 1VP/Noble. This
  is true wherever his Nobles are:
  building, plantation, San Juan, etc...</p>
</blockquote>

<p><a href="http://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/43381/english-rules-v1-0" rel="nofollow">(source)</a></p>

<p>And it makes more sense in terms of design as the rest of the expansion clearly wants you to place Nobles on buildings.</p>

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Interesting note about the translation!  I agree, it's shaky, and I'm torn between "rules as written" versus "intent", but I'm inclined to agree that it's a mistranslation.  Sure makes Villa + Jeweler + Royal Gardens nasty if you can pull it off.
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<p>You win 2VP per noble in the island and 1VP per noble in the city or san juan IMO. This is more balanced.</p>

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<p>The Royal Garden states:</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>At game end, the owner of the occupied royal garden takes 1 VP for each noble on his <strong>island</strong>.  As each noble is normally worth 1 VP (whether on a building, plantation or in San Juan), with the occupied royal garden each is worth 2 VPs to that player".</p>
</blockquote>

<p>Puerto Rico defines "island" as the twelve spaces at the bottom of the board to place plantation tiles; the Royal Garden states that you get 1 VP for each noble on his <strong>island</strong> (which I would assume means "nobles on plantations") but then goes on to state that nobles in San Juan and buildings are worth 1 extra VP as well.</p>

<p>So... which is it?  Do nobles on island tiles get the extra VP, or nobles on your entire board get the extra VP?</p>

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Clarification on the Royal Garden from Puerto Rico expansion 2
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# Clarification on the Royal Garden from Puerto Rico expansion 2

(Asked by: username_0 on 2010-10-20)

The Royal Garden states:

> At game end, the owner of the occupied royal garden takes 1 VP for each noble on his **island**. As each noble is normally worth 1 VP (whether on a building, plantation or in San Juan), with the occupied royal garden each is worth 2 VPs to that player".

Puerto Rico defines "island" as the twelve spaces at the bottom of the board to place plantation tiles; the Royal Garden states that you get 1 VP for each noble on his **island** (which I would assume means "nobles on plantations") but then goes on to state that nobles in San Juan and buildings are worth 1 extra VP as well.

So... which is it? Do nobles on island tiles get the extra VP, or nobles on your entire board get the extra VP?

**Tags:** puerto-rico, puerto-rico-expansion-2


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## 2 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2010-10-20. Score: 3 | Accepted answer

In my opinion, a player's **island** is their game board, unless explicitly referring to plantations. Its semantically tricky, as the island on the board contains San Juan which is implicitly the player's city.

I admit, that's kind of shaky reasoning.

With regards to the Royal Garden explicitly, an unofficial translation of the original rules was:

> At game’s end the owner of the Garden
> gains 2 VP for each Noble he owns
> instead of the usual 1VP/Noble. This
> is true wherever his Nobles are:
> building, plantation, San Juan, etc...

[(source)](http://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/43381/english-rules-v1-0)

And it makes more sense in terms of design as the rest of the expansion clearly wants you to place Nobles on buildings.

> **Comments:**
> **username_0**: Interesting note about the translation!  I agree, it's shaky, and I'm torn between "rules as written" versus "intent", but I'm inclined to agree that it's a mistranslation.  Sure makes Villa + Jeweler + Royal Gardens nasty if you can pull it off.  

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### Answer by username_2 on 2013-10-14. Score: -2

You win 2VP per noble in the island and 1VP per noble in the city or san juan IMO. This is more balanced.


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