Azul

Just in time for the holiday season, we play and review the tile game Azul, a strategy game in which you “draft” sets of colored tiles to fill patterns on your board. The rules feel complicated at first glance, but once you learn the basics, it’s a very straightforward game that requires a good amount of strategy. We play a sample round (which may or may not be that entertaining, as it is a very visual game), and fill out the episode with our usual pop-culture news and fortune cookie readings.

Here is a photo from the start of our first round:

And here is what our three boards looked like after our sample round: