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Alhambra (2003)

Players
2–6
Best: 3
Playing time
45–60 min
Age
8+
7.03
Average rating
35,872
Ratings
2.10/5
Weight
#617
BGG rank
Top 1,000
Alternate names:Alhambra: 15th Anniversary Revised Edition +9 more
Designer:Dirk Henn
Artist:Jo Hartwig, Jörg Asselborn, Christof Tisch, Patricia Limberger
Publisher:Piatnik +17 more
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Game DNA
  • This game: Strategy 7, Luck 5, Interaction 7, Complexity 4.2, Theme 5
Strategy7.0
Luck5.0
Interaction7.0
Complexity4.2
Theme5.0

This game's strategy, luck, interaction, complexity and theme.

City BuildingMedievalTile PlacementSet CollectionHand ManagementOpen DraftingArea Majority / Influence

Overview

Granada, 1278. At the foot of the Sierra Nevada mountains, one of the most exciting and interesting project of the Spanish Middle Ages begins: the construction of the ALHAMBRA. The best master builders in the whole of Europe and Arabia want to demonstrate their skill. Employ the most suitable teams of builders and make sure that you always have enough of the right currency. Because no matter whether they are stonemasons from the north or horticulturalists from the south, they all want a proper wage and insist on their "native" currency. With their help towers can be constructed, gardens laid out, pavilions and arcades erected and seraglios and chambers built.

In Alhambra, players are acquiring buildings to be placed within their Alhambra complex.

The money in Alhambra comes in four different currencies and is available in the open money market. The 54 buildings of six types become available for purchase in the building market four at a time; one building is available in each of the four different currencies. On a player's turn, a player may 1) take money from the open money market, 2) purchase a building from the building market and either place it in his Alhambra or reserve, or 3) engage in construction and re-construction projects with buildings that have been placed in the player's Alhambra or reserve. The game rewards efficiency, as when a player purchases a building from the market for the exact amount of money, the player may take another turn.

Players with the most buildings in each of the six building types in his Alhambra score in each of the scoring phases, and points are awarded for players' longest external "wall" section within their complex. The game ends when the building market can no longer be replenished from the building tile supply, and there is a final scoring, whereupon the player with the highest score wins.

Expansions

Alhambra: The Vizier's Favor
Alhambra: The City Gates
Alhambra: The Thief's Turn
Alhambra: The Treasure Chamber
Alhambra: Power of the Sultan
Alhambra: Queenie 1 – The Magical Buildings
Alhambra: The Falconers
Alhambra: Queenie 2 – Medina
Alhambra: Designers' Expansion – Alhambra Zoo / Buildings of Power / Travelling Craftsmen
Alhambra: Designers' Expansion – Handymen / Gates Without End / Fresh Color
Alhambra: Designers' Expansion – Palace Staff
Alhambra: Designers' Expansion – Extensions / The New Building Ground
Alhambra: Designers' Expansions Box
Alhambra: Designers' Expansion – Orchard / Major Construction Projects
Alhambra: Designers' Expansion – Bathhouses / Wishing Well / Palace Designers
Alhambra: Designers' Expansion – The Personal Building Markets / Caliph's Guidlines / Treasures
Alhambra: New Market
Alhambra: Building Sites
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