Almadi Board Game

“Almadi is all about the tile laying and planning. It’s a game that rewards the final game state rather than a points as you go Euro and so your aim is to lay tiles into a form that groups tiles together, or has them linked in a way that you score the maximum number of points for your vision of your realm of Almadi.

It’s very very easy to learn to play. You’re simply taking a tile from one of the rows of supply numbered one to four and your placing that tile in the same row on your own game board. Each of the tiles will contain either an icon that represents an action that you can take or an arrow that triggers the action if it is touching an action icon. Some of the icons like the Mosaic and Stall cards will come into play on final scoring. Rubies give you points at the end of the game based on the number you collect, while objective crescent moons give you the chance to pick up valuable objective tokens that will give you more scoring opportunities. The most useful icon is the genie, which allows you to move any of your previously placed tiles and place them elsewhere in your current tile set up, gaining any new effects that you create. If you want to spice things up, you can bring in character cards that give asymmetrical powers to the players and increases the options for tweaking the state of your individual game realm.”