Azul

Materials

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Tiles

The colorful stones are your tiles, with which you create your little masterpieces on the game board.

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Factory Displays

These round discs are the factory displays.

Grab the tiles you need for your masterpiece from here.

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Bag

Reach into here to draw new, random tiles before each round.

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And this is each player's player board:

Score tracker

Pattern lines. This is where you place your new tiles.

Wall. This is where you collect points with rows and columns.

Floor line. Tiles that end up here result in negative points.

Setup

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Each player gets a player board. Colorful side up!

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The black cube as a score marker moves to space 0 – and off you go!

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Now it gets round:

Place the factory displays in the center of the table, depending on the number of players:

2 players: 5 displays

3 players: 7 displays

4 players: 9 displays

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The starting player takes the tile with the number 1

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All other tiles go into the bag

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The box serves as a discard spot for later – keep it ready!

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Draw 4 tiles and place them on a factory display

Do this until all displays are full.

Goal

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The game ends when someone completes a horizontal row

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Whoever has the most points at the end wins!

Check the extra points with the small table at the bottom right at the end.

Gameplay

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The starting player begins and places the 1 tile in the center

among the factory displays

The first to take tiles from the center inherits the 1 tile

But be careful: It then brings negative points, as it moves to the floor line

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When it's your turn, do the following:

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Choose Tiles

Pick a factory display.

Take all tiles of one color from it.

The rest goes to the center of the table.

Or take all tiles of one color from the center.

If the 1 tile is there, you must take it – and receive negative points!

You must take something – no dodging!

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Place Tiles

Move them to the left side of your player board.

In orderly rows and true to color.

Different colors must not go in the same row!

Only one tile slides to the right later.

Even if you have collected 2-5 tiles in a row.

A few more rules:

Never split tiles across multiple rows!

If you have placed a color on the wall, you can't lay it in the pattern line again

Too many tiles? Off to the floor line they go – Ouch, negative points!

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If there are no more tiles to draw? Time to score!

Have you completed a row? Move it to the right.

The other tiles get discarded into the box.

Collect points:

For rows, but only if at least two pieces touch each other.

And the same for columns.

Single tile? At least a consolation point.

Negative points for floor tiles – move the cube back.

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If someone completes a row, it's time for the final scoring.

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If not: New round

Empty your floor lines. Return the discarded tiles to the box

Keep the 1 tile. This player begins the next round

Refill the factory displays from the bag, and off you go again

Scoring

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Now count the extra points for complete rows, columns, and color sets.

Find the scoring formula at the bottom right.

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Each complete row scores 2 points

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For complete columns, you get a whopping 7 points

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And for each set of 5 tiles of the same color, you earn 10 points

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Whoever is ahead now has won!