How to play Azul in 4 Minutes

How to play Azul, designed by Michael Kiesling

[Alulucard]

As someone who has never played this game before, this literally explains the game better than the instructions did.

[StarvingSound]

I'll take things that went over my head, Alex.

[flyingcat]

Nice, right into the game, no music, no long intros about yourself and family, or sponsors! I subscribed😀

[stephenwoodhouse]

Thank you. The written rules puzzled me: I didn’t realise that the wall/tiling phases iterate so didn’t understand how there could be a tile in the row already. This made it very clear, thanks.

[kenstanford]

This is really helpful as a rules refresher. So nice not to watch a 30 minute video just to figure out one thing. Thanks!

[TheRealJeffDiamond]

Thank you so much! Whoever wrote the text instructions that came with the game was perhaps the worst person at explaining games ever. I tried many other videos, and they all contradicted each other and had differences on the details. Your video makes everything clear! I can even now understand what the maker of the game instructions was intending to explain! Thank you!

[aaronstallins]

i know im extremely late to the azul party, however this 4 min video explains the game insanely better than the sub par directions it came with. thank you!

[nateiverson]

A couple points i think need clarification. He said "you can take the 1st player tile" when drawing from the center. That should be the first player to draw from the center *must* take the 1st player tile. He also said "leftover tiles go into the lid of the box never to be seen again until another game". Later in the video he describes how tiles are recycled from the lid of the box into the bag once the bag is empty (this is correct). Other than that pretty good instructional video. The talking might be a little too quick for me to share with my dad, I'm gonna look at other videos and decide if i should send this one and suggest he play it at 0.75x or 0.5x or something that doesn't talk quite so quickly.

[seymakaya]

For a new player this might be confusing, but as someone said it was great as a rule refresher. I wish there was one of these for every game I own. Thank you

[carihetler]

This helped me and my family learn to play. My only problem was I didn’t realize that tiles in pattern rows that weren’t full got to stay for the next round, so we emptied everything. We realized they could stay and had an easier time filling the bottom patter rows.

[sinstone]

Thank you for showing an actual turn! I wanted to know how the game flowed before buying it, and this was perfect!

[josuetrejos]

How can you have more than one horizontal line if however makes the first one ends the game??

[vdavid]

Awesome explanation. I feel sorry for the creator of this vid who put in the effort to create a *free* tutorial video and get so many negative comments and downvotes. I understand it's fast paced, but for some (me, for one) it's an advantage. And it was a pretty clear explanation. Thanks! :)

[StarlightSovereign]

Thanks this worked for my group when we struggled to understand otherwise!
We got very confused on the scoring without this!

2 things I wish about this game: That the board was inset for the tiles and scoring tracker, and that the scoring box on the bottom included the other 2 scoring rules it doesn't include (individual tiles get 1 point and that you get 1 point per adjacent tile in each direction when you place one.)

[marissagordon]

I watched like three other videos for this game but only yours made sense, thank you for such clear instructions!

[ameleh]

Wow, after the other videos teaching this game, I'm quite happy with this! Concise, audible, good clear video. Thank you!

[tsumkwe]

Amazing job! I feel for me and my family that this has helped us, we were confused at first with the paper tutorial. But when we searched “azulejo” we say this first, clicked and understood immediately! Thank you so much!

[beetlejes]

This is where all of the intelligent people come to thank you, and all of the stupid people (such as myself) come to say, huh? 🤦‍♀️

[diastoleny]

Great demo. Quick and to the point. Thanks.

[jimgraham]

We played a two player game, and we realized the game is very short. One of us would complete a row in no time at all. What we ended up doing is changing the end game to when a person completes a horizontal row and a vertical column instead.