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Alhambra Family Box: Alhambra, Granada, 2 Expansions

Mechanics: Tile placement, Set collection, Hand management.
Players: 1-6 possible, 3-4 best. Playing 2 requires managing a 'dummy' player. Solo play rules below.
Playing time: 45-60 minutes.
Language independent, navigation by color. Some expansions do have English text, but it's manageable.


In Alhambra, players are acquiring buildings to be placed within their Alhambra complex.

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

Official rules for this edition[cdn.1j1ju.com]



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.

Official game rules[riograndegames.com].



Granada is new member of the Alhambra family with a more challenging character: in this standalone game the players develop the city of Granada next to Sierra Nevada, where the famous Alhambra stands, by buying building tiles to construct the city which will earn the most victory points. Building tiles now have two sides and there are new building types for which the value is set during the game.

Official game rules[cdn.1j1ju.com]


More info here:
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/6249/alhambra
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/58099/granada

Please note that not every module of each expansion goes well with Granada, although some of them work fine (mainly Vizier, currency exchange, diamonds, characters).

Both Alhambra and Granada can be combined in one big game: https://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/141603/alhambra-granada-official-variation

Solo play
There are two options for solo play.
1. Follow this link: https://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/55748/soloplay-alhambra-v1pdf It contains the rules for an AI player's behavior. These provide quite a challenging AI, but they're quite complex. Also, consider adjustments if you want to play Granada or Big game variations solo.
2. Simply use two or more Dirk players (basic "dummy" players described in the rulebook). Follow this link if you want your Dirks to not suck as much: https://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/74514/improved-dirk-variant

Disclaimer:
This mod is based on a deleted Alhambra mod of Zero3ffect with scans made by Violet Moon. The scans of Granada tiles and the Family Box board were done by me. The assets themselves are owned by Queen Games.