Azul

Azul is a multi-round strategy game with short term (each round) pattern-making goals and long term (counted at game end) pattern-making goals. It's complex enough to challenge a die-hard analytical strategist, yet simple enough that my nine year old could not only play, but requested to play again the next day. Azul has the flexibility of being a 2-4 player game with similar strategy and game play with 2, 3, or 4 players. A 5-6 player expansion would be a nice option for larger groups or families. The game pieces (especially the tiles) seem to be reasonably durable. One caution ... it's rather easy (and frustrating) to bump your score counter out of place and lose track of your score in the middle of a game.

I purchased Azul for my son. It’s one of his favorite games all time. We played the game with my daughter and son-in-law. I ended up buying the game for my son-in-law and myself. This game gets alot of playtime!

I learned that there are different versions of this game. The Next Move version appears to be the best. Games pieces are best quality. This site carries this version. Therefore I highly recommend buying this game from this site. It’s the best version and I received it very quickly.

One thing I did to enhance each of the games is to add plastic overlays/grids to each of the game boards so the tiles would stay in place on the game board when playing the game. I purchased these from highest rated sellers on Etsy.