Alhambra Board Game
Compete to build the most valuable picturesque walled city in 13th-century Granada.
2-6 Players | 45-60 Mins | Ages 8+
Features: Hand Management Memory Open Drafting Set Collection Tile Placement
Theme: City Building Medieval
Description:
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.
AWARDS & HONORS
- 2005 Vuoden Peli Adult Game of the Year Winner
- 2005 Vuoden Peli Adult Game of the Year Nominee
- 2005 Nederlandse Spellenprijs Nominee
- 2005 Juego del Año Finalist
- 2005 Hra roku Nominee
- 2005 Ã…rets Spill Best Family Game Winner
- 2005 Ã…rets Spill Best Family Game Nominee
- 2004 Hra roku Nominee
- 2003 Spiel des Jahres Winner
- 2003 Spiel des Jahres Nominee
- 2003 Japan Boardgame Prize Best Foreign Game for Beginners Nominee
- 2003 Japan Boardgame Prize Best Advanced Game Nominee
- 2003 International Gamers Awards - General Strategy; Multi-player Nominee
- 2003 Essener Feder Best Written Rules Winner
- 2003 Deutscher Spiele Preis Best Family/Adult Game 2nd Place
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