Puerto Rico Score Calculator & Score Sheet
Add up your VP chips, your buildings, and the bonuses from occupied large buildings — three buckets, totaled for you. Free, for 3 to 5 players, with the large buildings explained.
Score Calculator
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| VP Chips | |||
| Buildings | |||
| Occupied Large Buildings | |||
| Total | 0 | 0 | 0 |
It's a tie at the top — check your rulebook for the tiebreaker.
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How Puerto Rico Scoring Works
Andreas Seyfarth's 2002 alea design is the game every engine euro since has been measured against, and the tally at the end is refreshingly short: three numbers per player. Nothing scores while you play except the chips you bank — the rest of the game is spent building the machine that banks them. Here's each bucket, and where the points hide.
1VP Chips
These are the chips you collected as the game went along, almost all of them from shipping goods to Europe during the Captain phase — one point per barrel loaded, plus the extra point the Captain takes for their own first shipment, plus anything a Harbor added on top. Count the chips in front of you (they come in 1s and 5s, so count denominations, not tiles). This is usually the single biggest number on the sheet, and it's the one people undercount because the pile gets tall.
2Buildings
Every building you constructed shows its victory point value in the upper-left corner. Add up those printed numbers across all twelve city spaces — the small production buildings, the violet buildings, and the large buildings alike. Occupation does not matter here: an empty building still scores its printed points in full. Only the large buildings' bonus abilities need a colonist, and that's the next row.
3Occupied Large Buildings
The five large buildings — the ten-doubloon ones that eat two city spaces — each grant bonus points beyond their printed value, but only if a colonist is standing on them at game end. Each has its own condition and they look at completely different things, so resolve them one at a time against your final board. Total the bonuses here. An unstaffed large building still scores its printed points in the row above; it just contributes nothing to this one.
The Five Large Buildings
Each large building costs ten doubloons, takes two city spaces, and pays a bonus that only arrives if a colonist is standing on it when the game ends. They reward five different things, which is the whole point — the one you buy should be the one that matches the game you've been playing.
Guild Hall
Rewards production. Each of your small production buildings is worth 1 extra point and each large production building is worth 2, so a player who built their engine wide cashes it in here.
Residence
Rewards a full island. It scores on how many of your plantation spaces are occupied, climbing as your island fills up — the payoff for the player who kept taking settlers instead of buildings.
Fortress
Rewards population: 1 point for every 3 colonists you own, counted across your whole board — buildings, plantations, and the ones sitting in San Juan.
Customs House
Rewards shipping: 1 point for every 4 victory point chips you banked. It compounds a shipping game rather than starting one, so it wants to arrive before your chip pile does.
City Hall
Rewards violet buildings: 1 point for each violet building in your city. The large buildings are themselves violet, so City Hall counts itself and its neighbors.
Two things trip up almost every table. First, occupation only gates the bonus — an empty large building still scores its printed points, so don't erase it from the buildings row. Second, nothing else on your board is worth anything: leftover doubloons and unshipped barrels of coffee score exactly zero, no matter how comfortable the pile looked on the last turn.
Looking for a Puerto Rico Score Sheet?
If you came here hunting for a Puerto Rico score sheet to print, the calculator above does the same job with the math built in — one row per bucket, one column per player, up to five, totals handled. It forgets everything when you leave, though. For a score sheet that remembers — every game, every player, every win — Puerto Rico is one of 300+ games in the free Meeply app.
The three buckets hold up beyond the base box, too: the alea expansions collected in the Treasure Chest and the reworked Puerto Rico 1897 edition change which buildings are on the table, not how you add them up.
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