Alhambra is the latest update to the stock market game Stimmt So!, only it has been completely re-themed with a Moorish theme and has an additional tile-laying component.
On a player's turn, they can do one of the following actions:
1. Draw one or several currency cards.
2. Buy a tile from the market by playing any number of currency cards whose value equals or exceeds the number on the tile (no change is given) in the appropriate currency. Exactly matching the tile value gives the player an additional action. At the end of the turn the tiles must be added to the Alhambra or placed on the player's reserve board.
3. Alhambra construction. The player may move one tile from the reserve board to the Alhambra, from the Alhambra to the reserve board, or exchange the exact position of one tile in the Alhambra and one in the reserve board.
When the each scoring card appears, the game is immediately paused and the appropriate round is scored. After scoring buildings, each player then scores the longest wall in their Alhambra. The third and final scoring is played when there are not enough building tiles available to refill all markets on the building market board. The winner is the player with the highest number of points.
Awards
2003 Spiel des Jahres
2005 Vuoden Aikuistenpeli
2005 Årets Familiespill - Family Game of the Year Norway
Online Play
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