Azul: Queen's Garden - How to Play

Is Azul: Queen's Garden the heaviest in strategy amongst Azul games so far? Learn how to play of Azul Queen's Garden - we're rules teaching in the clearest, concise way, so hopefully you can skip most of the rulebook and just play!

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INDEX
00:00 Start
00:38 Game appraisal
01:22 Game setup
03:26 Overview
04:17 Taking tiles
06:23 Placing tiles
09:05 Placement rules
10:49 Structure bonuses
11:18 Placing extensions
12:28 Passing
13:09 Round scoring
13:52 End of game

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[MeepleUniversity]

What's your favorite Azul game so far?

[kairachann]

Finally! A perfect video for Azul Queen's Garden! Thank you, thank you!

[barbaramazzocca]

Once again, the very best explanation for this game I have seen. This game is so much more complex than any of the others! Can't wait to try it!

[andrewwagner]

Tarrant, you are the best rules explainer in the business! I'm always satisfied with your clear rules overviews. This game has definitely piqued my interest!

[christopherrblais]

This tutorial was exceptionally well done. Thank you so much!

[webjunke]

Best How to play video for Queen's Garden so far. Great Job and thank you!

[powens]

The first how-to-play I watched left me with buyers regret but your video was awesome and now I'm ready to open the box!

[Loutjee]

The perfect explanation, thanks guys! Really want to add this to the rest of my gamestack 😃

[singlespeedseth]

Very helpful. This one was a bit different than all the other Azul games and my head was spinning trying to make sense of it :D

[theoofiesgaming]

So glad that you always have how to play for the Azul games, good work guys!

[alwaysplayblue]

Great video. Really helped us in our first play last night.

[Davidesonar]

absolutely excellent explaining skills. love you guys

[jamessherman]

Thanks for your thorough instructions. Now, I have enough understanding to give the first game a try. Amongst our gaming group, we now each have one of the four versions of Azul!

[Smile]

Wow i love it was just perfect don t even need to read the instructions thank you so much

[clean_gamer]

thank you this video helped us very much

[aarond.]

This sort of reminds me of Calico. I can’t wait to get this game on the table!

[jepenjoykazawa]

This new version is quite interesting and takes a lot of thinking

[npckse]

While I wish I had seen this prior to last night's game, halfway through we realized our box came with 2 sets of butterfly tiles and no bird tiles, so we literally could not play the game. This video will be helpful, assuming either Next Move or the OLGS sends me the missing tiles or makes it right.

[Fractus]

In a 4 player game we found placing 5 tiles per garden expansion to be better. This is because the number of tiles you have access to changes depending on the number of players. In a 2 player game you have 4*5 tiles + 5 garden expansions for a total of 25 combinations of options, so 12.5 tiles per player. In a 3 player it's 4*7 + 7 for 35 total or just under 12 per player. For 4 players, with the written rules, you'll have 4*8+8 so 40 total or only 10 per player. This makes getting sets harder than usual, especially given you are now competing with 3 others. With 5 per draw you have 5*8+8 for 48 options, which brings you back up to 12 per player in a 4 player game like in the 2 and 3 player versions.

The game is about making sets and so in my board gaming club we agreed that facilitating that was better. You will also cycle through the bag again and fill more than a 3rd of your board which feels a lot nicer. I think you should give it a try if you play it 4 player. Have fun.

[MikeGoodwin]

I think they could have called this one Azul: Calico. 😁
Looks good though (except for the accessibility of some of the colours used).