Rating: 6.1 Fair
Popularity:37
Difficulty:Easy
Year:2003
Players: 2-6 players
Playing time: 45-60 minutes
Age:8+

Created by: Dirk Henn, Jörg Asselborn, Jo Hartwig, Christof Tisch

Published by: Queen Games, Asterion Press, Corfix

Alternate Names: Münster, The Palace of Alhambra, Der Palast von Alhambra, Troisdorf: Der Palast von Alhambra Sonderedition, Αλάμπρα

Description:

Alhambra is an Moorish-themed tile-based board game about the construction Alhambra: a palace, fortress, beautiful gardens and a small city in Grenada, Spain.

The best master builders of Europe and Arabia are demonstrating their building skills. Employ the most suitable teams of builders to construct your Alhambra.

The game exists of a deck of currency cards and a bag of building tiles, as well as a number of boards like a currency market, a building market, etc.

On each turn, players can take money from the open money market, purchase buildings or engage in construction and re-construction projects with buildings that have been placed in the player's reserve.

You can receive victory points for having the majority in each of the six building types or for having a longer city wall. The game stops when the building market is empty and the finale scoring starts. The player with the most victory points wins the game.

Prices:
Retail Price:$30
Amazon:$26
Ebay:$27
Expansions:
Alhambra: Power of the Sultan
Alhambra: Queenie 2 – Medina Buildings
Alhambra: The City Gates
Alhambra: The Falconers
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Awards:
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
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