Welcome back to the palace of Sintra!
King Manuel I has commissioned the best garden designers in Portugal to construct the most extraordinary garden for his wife, Queen Maria of Aragon.
Players are tasked with arranging a magnificent garden for the King's lovely wife by arranging beautiful plants, trees, and ornamental features.
Using an innovative drafting mechanism, the signature of the Azul series, players must carefully select colourful tiles to decorate their garden. Only the most incredible garden designers will flourish and win the Queen's blessing.
Azul is a tile-drafting, pattern-building game, with set collection bonuses up for grabs. Players take turns drafting tiles, aiming to collect enough of one tile type to fill in thresholds on their player mat. At first, you’ll collect tiles in a laid-back fashion. But the pinch closes in during later rounds. Other players can take note of your predicaments. Elements of push-your-luck enter the fray. Especially considering there’s the chance you might get left with excess tiles you can’t place! These class as ‘smashed’ tiles… And that means minus points!
Azul is a quick game to teach, and addictive to play. This fits the category of easy to learn, but tricky to master. It’s easy to see why Azul has become an overwhelming modern classic! Such is Azul’s wild success, it’s spawned multiple sequels already.
Azul: Queen's Garden ups the complexity compared to previous titles, so beginners beware! It takes the mechanics introduced in previous versions and mixes them up a little in a new and elegant way. There are more decisions to make than ever before.
Player Count: 2-4
Time: 45-60 minutes
Age: 10+
