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It is also possible that a player takes more colored tiles than she can use; such excess tiles are discarded, and the player moves down the track one space per unused tile. Azul: Stained Glass of Sintra (created by Michael Kiesling) is a standalone game for two to four players – it is not an expansion to Azul. Whether its a quick game between rounds or an all day main event, the Goonhammer team can often be found pushing chits, cubes, and cards around a board game. That said, I recommend first-time players start with the original game before diving into the sequel, just for the sake of getting comfortable with the core system. The winner is the player with the highest score with ties being broken by the lowest negative point position on the broken glass track.
When a player takes tiles, she must place them all into a single column, on matching-colored spaces. International License and is adapted from the Florida State College at Jacksonville (FSCJ) Libraries. I would be interested to see what people who came across Stained Glass of Sintra before Azul thought after they had played. This can also create incentives to force a player to take too many tiles of one color by pushing the color they need to the middle of the table. Much like the great designs of Reiner Knizia, Azul simply stepped out of the way of the players and allowed them to work the system.You’ll discover that its worth it to take the 6 Magenta Panes even though you only need 4 because in the moment it will score you 14 points while you will only lose up to 6 at the end of the game.
When you select Panes from a Factory, all of the leftover Panes are sent to the center area with the 1st Player Tile.This creates an interesting dynamic where you want to complete (and score) as many windows as quickly as possible, but also complete windows on the right first since they’ll score you extra points every time you complete a window to their left. Because of this design and ease of play -- all while packing it in such quick decision spaces -- Azul rightfully won the prestigious Spiel des Jahres award for 2018. It’s suggested that you start with the “A” side of the Palace Board and the only condition for the Strips is that there can be no Joker (grey spaces) showing at the onset of the game. To give yourself more options, you can reset your glazier to the leftmost panel – but skip a turn for doing so.
You’ll now select 1 Color Pane Tile of each color, shuffle them, and place them one at a time on the round indicator, starting on Round II. There are ways to score both in turn and at the end of the game, and you can also be penalized points for over-drafting. You will immediately score the number below the newly placed pane AND all of the slots that have panes to the right. So when you take glass from a factory or from the center, you take all of that specific color from that specific spot.
The first time a column is completed, one of its tiles is moved to the lower section of the tableau, causing the column to be flipped to its other side.
By carefully drafting the correct quantity and style of tiles, the most clever of artisans plan ahead to maximise the beauty of their work (not to mention their scores! While crafting and staining a chapel's windows could take weeks, a game of Azul: Stained Glass of Sintra should only take 30 - 45 minutes and was designed for glaziers 8 and older. If preferred, you may select ALL pieces of ONE colour from the central pool, and the first player to do so also claims the first player marker – but also takes a penalty. This game is very easy to pick up and play, as you draft your coloured tiles to your personal player board.There are times where your Glazier hasn’t moved more than two windows and yet, the offerings for you to take are not what you need or want, so you delay by passing, making the other players take those glass shards, but this can also put you behind in terms of number of glass taken and thus slow you down so you really don’t want to do that unless you absolutely have to. Azul: Stained Glass of Sintra challenges players to carefully select glass panes to complete their windows while being careful not to damage or waste supplies in the process. A real twist comes in to the game at this point, in that Pane Pieces can only be placed on Pattern Strips either under the Glazier or the right of the Glazier’s position (in which case the Glazier is moved to above the Pattern Strip on which the Pane Pieces are placed). We are trying to complete windows in Sintra, so we’ve moved from Evora to Sintra, but we have stayed in Portugal.
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