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Azul Mini: Summer Pavilion

2024-07-02T10:28:07-04:00

Vendor: Next Move Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 22.95

Designer	Michael Kiesling
Publisher	Next Move Games
Players	2-4
Playtime	30-45 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Honor	2019 Golden Geek Best Family Board Game Nominee 2019 Meeples' Choice Nominee 2020 International Gamers Award - General Strategy Nominee 2020 UK Games Expo Best Abstract Game Nominee 2020 UK Games Expo Best Abstract Game People's Choice Winner 2021 5 Seasons Best International Strategy Nominee 2021 5 Seasons Best International Strategy Winner 2021 Gra Roku Family Game of the Year Nominee 2021 Gra Roku Family Game of the Year Winner
Additional Info	287954/azul-summer-pavilion http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/287954/azul-summer-pavilion/forums/63

Azul practically needs no introduction! After the success of the original mini edition in 2023, it’s now Azul Summer Pavilion’s turn to get its very own mini edition! In Azul: Summer Pavilion, players return to Portugal to accomplish the task that never began. As a master artisan, you must use the finest materials to create the summer pavilion while carefully avoiding wasting supplies. With only six rounds to draft your tiles and build your masterpiece, only the best will rise to the challenge to honor the Portuguese royal family. This edition is perfect to carry along with you anywhere you go. Now nothing is stopping you from playing Azul anywhere, anytime.

The MINI edition includes plastic trays, clickable tiles, and a points slider so nothing can disturb your game.

A simple mechanic with endless strategic choices

A standalone game. No other Azul product is needed to play.

This multilingual edition includes: English & French

Azul Mini

2023-02-22T11:28:20-05:00

Vendor: Next Move Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 22.95

Azul practically needs no introduction! This now classic game of tile-collecting and wall-decorating returns in a new MINI edition. This edition is perfect to carry along with you anywhere you go. Now nothing is stopping you from playing Azul anywhere, anytime.

The MINI edition includes plastic trays, clickable tiles, and a points slider so nothing can disturb your game.

Also contains a plastic tray for the Factories so they stay put!

A simple mechanic with endless strategic choices

A standalone game. No other Azul product is needed to play.

This multilingual edition includes: English & French

Azul: Queen's Garden

2021-12-27T09:06:08-05:00

Vendor: Next Move Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 48.95

Designer	Michael Kiesling
Publisher	Next Move Games
Players	2-4
Playtime	45-60 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Additional Info	346965/azul-queens-garden http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/346965/azul-queens-garden/forums/63

Welcome back to the palace of Sintra! King Manuel I has commissioned the best garden designers of Portugal to construct the most extraordinary garden for his wife, Queen Maria of Aragon.

In Azul: Queen's Garden, 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 colorful tiles to decorate their garden. Only the most incredible garden designers will flourish and win the Queen's blessing.

—description from the publisher

Azul: Glazed Pavilion

2020-12-27T00:05:44-05:00

Vendor: Next Move Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 18.95

Designer	Michael Kiesling
Publisher	Next Move Games
Players	2-4
Playing Time	30-45 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	332613/azul-summer-pavilion-glazed-pavilion http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/332613/azul-summer-pavilion-glazed-pavilion/forums/63

A brand new floor!

Azul: Glazed Pavilion offers players 2 newly designed player boards and matching scoring boards to compete over and a set of 4 overlays to keep Azul Glazed Pavilion tiles neatly organized. Offering the best of both worlds — beauty and new game elements — Glazed Pavilion is a must-have expansion for Azul fans!

—description from the publisher

Azul: Crystal Mosaic

2020-04-22T22:23:47-04:00

Vendor: Next Move Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 18.95

Designer	Michael Kiesling
Publisher	Next Move Games
Players	2-4
Playing Time	30-45 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Expansion For	Azul
Additional Info	294345/azul-crystal-mosaic http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/294345/azul-crystal-mosaic/forums/63

Azul: Crystal Mosaic contains double-sided player boards, with each board offering new challenges and exciting new strategic opportunities.

The "Crystal Mosaic" of the title is actually a plastic overlay that provides a recess to keep tiles from being accidentally bumped out of place. Four overlays are included in this expansion.

Azul: Summer Pavilion

2019-12-03T00:06:42-05:00

Vendor: Next Move Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 48.95

Designer	Michael Kiesling
Publisher	Next Move Games
Players	2-4
Playtime	30-45 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Honors	2020 UK Games Expo Best Abstract Game People's Choice Winner 2020 UK Games Expo Best Abstract Game Nominee 2020 International Gamers Award - General Strategy Nominee 2019 Meeples' Choice Nominee 2019 Golden Geek Best Family Board Game Nominee
Additional Info	287954/azul-summer-pavilion http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/287954/azul-summer-pavilion/forums/63

At the turn of the 16th Century, King Manuel I commissioned Portugal's greatest artisans to construct grandiose buildings. After completing the Palaces of Evora and Sintra, the king sought to build a summer pavilion to honor the most famous members of the royal family. This construction was intended for the most talented artisans — whose skills meet the splendor that the royal family deserves. Sadly, King Manuel I died before construction ever began.

In Azul: Summer Pavilion, players return to Portugal to accomplish the task that never began. As a master artisan, you must use the finest materials to create the summer pavilion while carefully avoiding wasting supplies. Only the best will rise to the challenge to honor the Portuguese royal family.

Azul: Summer Pavilion lasts six rounds, and in each round players draft tiles, then place them on their individual player board to score points. Each of the six colors of tiles is wild during one of the rounds.

At the start of each round, draw tiles at random from the bag to refill each of the five, seven, or nine factories with four tiles each. Draw tiles as needed to refill the ten supply spaces on the central scoring board. Players then take turns drafting tiles. You can choose to take all of the tiles of a non-wild color on a factory and place them next to your board; if any wild tiles are on this factory, you must take one of them. Place all remaining tiles in the center of the table. Alternatively, you can take all tiles of a non-wild color from the center of play; you must also take one wild tile, if present.

After all tiles have been claimed, players then take turns placing tiles on their individual boards. Each board depicts seven stars that would be composed of six tiles; each space on a star shows a number from 1-6, and six of the stars are for tiles of a single color while the seventh will be composed of one tile of each color. To place a tile on the blue 5, for example, you must discard five blue or wild tiles from next to your player board (with at least one blue being required), placing one blue tile in the blue 5 space and the rest in the discard tower. You score 1 point for this tile and 1 point for each tile within this star connected to the newly placed tile.

If you completely surround a pillar, statue, or window on your game board with tiles, you get an immediate bonus, taking 1-3 tiles from the central supply spaces and placing them next to your board. At the end of the round, you can carry over at most four tiles to the next round; discard any others, losing 1 point for each such tile.

After six rounds, you score a bonus for each of the seven stars that you've filled completely. Additionally, you score a bonus for having covered all seven spaces of value 1, 2, 3 or 4. You lose 1 point for each remaining tile unused, then whoever has the most points wins.

—description from the publisher

Tuki

2019-03-15T01:42:19-04:00

Vendor: Next Move Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 12.95

Designer	Grzegorz Rejchtman
Publisher	Next Move Games
Players	1-4
Playtime	30-45 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	270168/tuki http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/270168/tuki/forums/63

Note: Limit of 10 per customer.

In the Inuit language, "tukilik" is used to define an object that carries a message, and the northern landscapes are densely populated with such objects. The most well known of these are the inukshuk, that is, structures of rough stones traditionally used by Inuit people as a landmark or commemorative sign, with the stones often being stacked in the form of a human figure.

During each turn in Tuki, you attempt to construct an inukshuk based on the die face rolled using your stones and blocks of snow. Players have only a limited number of pieces with which to construct the inukshuk, so you'll need to be creative and use the three-dimensional pieces in multiple ways, such as to counterbalance other pieces or even build on top of existing pieces. A solution always exists — you just need to discover it!

You can choose from two levels of difficulty when playing Tuki to level the playing ground between newcomers and experts. Be swift, yet precise, and transform your stones into messengers of the north...