Azul - GameNight! Se5 Ep21 2018 Spiel des Jahres Winner! - How to Play and Playthrough
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 มิ.ย. 2024
- Intro: 0:00
Start of Game: 9:17
End Game Discussion: 45:55
Tonight on GameNight!, Nikki, Mike, Dave, and Lincoln play 2018 Spiel des Jahres winner Azul, designed by Michael Kiesling and published by Next Move Games. Congratulations to Michael Kiesling and Next Move Games.
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It takes a certain skill set to explain the way games work. This guy has got it. Very impressive.
A Dave should be shipped with each copy of every board game available to explain the game.
Agreed! I love watching Dave explain a game. In fact, I've learned a lot about teaching games to other players by watching this show as well as Watch It Played.
I have to admit, he is good. One day, when I grow up (I'm only 42...), I wanna be as good as Dave teaching games !
So many episodes where I wish I had a real life Dave in my game group ... 🙁
I think we can all agree Dave is the bee’s knees.
I never thought I’d be fascinated in watching videos of people playing board games.. but here I am 😂
Dave you’re awesome at explaining games, and it always feel like you have a nice group of players, supporting each other and truly playing because you enjoy it, not overly competitive.
A wish for the editor: when you guys are thinking about your next move, please show the game (not thinking faces) so us viewers can think too. :)
Agreed. Lincoln does such a great job of showing faces when people are talking, which I think is one of the best parts of the editing. But with this game, which popped so well on video, I was so enthralled trying to see what options everyone had, that every time it switched to a face I wanted to yell "NooOOooOO!" Still, great job. :)
I agree.. you could also put an inset with the player.
Thank you, teacher Dave!
That Portugal the Man joke was under appreciated.
Agreed.
100% instituting the Ghostbuster penalty for any game in the Azul series. Thank you for that.
You guys are awesome! I love these videos. This game is under the tree. I can't wait until Christmas morning!!!
Never stop making these videos! They’re so great and very informative!!
In fact, we should play that right now! Had me laughing Dave, especially after watching the Year in Review. Thanks for the videos. Enjoy your holidays.
Great episode. Before watching this I was on the fence about this game...but now I'm completely sold on it!
I just got this to play during December ! Learning it so I'm watch yall play :)
Another wonderful episode and Dave almost had the comeback of the year after that -14 punch in the gut! Well played peeps!
dude, you sold me that game. : ) Kudos, great show.
So pleased to see this played on the channel. I missed the opportunity at Essen to play this (although I did meet Lincoln and get to sing the praises of Dragon Castle!) and despite watching several reviews I really didn’t get a good idea of how this actually plays. This is one of the BEST things about this channel, seeing the full flow of game. You’ve cost me money, but you’ve also saved me money at times 🤓
I thought I wouldn't like this game, I was wrong.
I'm glad I was able to help you see the game in action. Thanks for checking in at Essen. We took Dragon Castle home from BGG Con in hopes of playing it on the show after your and Jennifer Geske's recommendation.
Super fun video. Watched it all. Great group of friends.
Love the explanation! So clear and goes over so much
Thanks for the teach & playthrough. It helps alot to learn the game
A fun and beautiful game. I need to play it more!
Well done, you guys are awesome!.. 💕
Love your videos! Fun game
Recently bought the game, can't wait to try it! The mechanics seem super interesting and fun. I do wish that the scoring board was channelled and I also wish that the tile pictures on the scoring board were a little bit washed out. It's hard to distinguish from top camera angle whether it's empty or has a tile on it. It might be better in real life, but it's still a little detail that would've helped and wouldn't cost anything for the makers, really.
Seems a nice mix of Sagrada and Qwerkle with its own mechanics also. Ordered it and the crystal expansion with the board tile frames. Ty ty :) Serious owie time - maxed out the penalty row :)
Thank you this was so helpful!
After watching this, I’m buying the game tomorrow. Great demonstration. Maybe keep the camera on above on the game so we can observe all boards longer.
I also was encouraged to buy it after seeing the video , works really well with my family
A good way to remember who the start player is, is to put the first player marker next to your board when you score the negative point(s), and then put it in the center when you take your first move of the next round.
Also, The one thing I don't like about the game is that every player has their own score track. I think it would be more tense if there was one scoring track only in the middle, and everyone counted their points on it. It would make it easier for players to see where they were on points and would make it more competitive. Still, wonderful game and I can't wait to play it again.
A central score track could also be bigger so there might be fewer errors from accidently moving it.
Enjoy watching you guys play... wish I could find a group around me to play games with
I hear you ! Same for me..
Nice play. My next purchase.
I just got this for Xmas soooo exited
I know that you filmed this a long time ago but at the end for the gray grid game - you cannot repeat colors vertical OR horizontal - go and look at the variant play rules. it states this: "In each of the 5 vertical lines of your wall, no color may appear more than once. Also keep in mind that in each horizontal line, no color may appear more than once either." Check it out. Did you notice that after you shared this video or no? A great game and thank you for sharing your take on it.
I’ve had this game on my list to buy and just found it on sale and bought it. I’ve played the game and ❤❤❤.
I just ordered Azul mini. You sacrifice the luxurious feel of the stones I guess, but because it's a travel version you can't knock anything out of position, a nice quality of life improvement, and it's much cheaper!
Having played the mini version twice I can report that the main downside of the mini version is my utter golgothan of a sister beating everyone with her shitty monsterscores. Don't play this against my sister and you're golden though. Azul mini just might be the best bang for your buck variant of the game out there right now.
This is the best game board review/explanation video that I've ever seen. You did such a great job at explaining the rules simply and I love that y'all play an actual game to model game play. I've seen other youtubers try to mimic a 2-player game (without a second person), but they quickly get mixed up and it becomes a mess.
My only critique is that I really wish you would show the board game mie during gameplay. Watching your faces as you think or make silly remarks to each other doesn't help me learn the game. Some of the cuts to the board game were so quick that I felt like I didn't get a chance to see where a tile was set or to get an idea of your strategies. Otherwise, super informative & fun video. 👍
Thanks for your note and your feedback. It is a challenge to keep everyone satisfied with board/people time on camera. This one I thought I was giving a lot of board time but I suppose not. Thanks again -Lincoln
Nikki has to stop sitting beside the only guy at the table who plays to hate draft! She always has to absorb Dave's plays. How many games would Nikki win if seating order was different! Haha. Great episode everyone.
Agreed. Players seating arrangement in many games can affect the outcomes
I got this game on clearance at Walmart a month ago. I was going to save it for Christmas, but now that we are all home for awhile I opened it today. I was grateful for this video. Now if y’all would do one for gloomhaven 🤣🤣🤣
Great job!
The strategy aspect is off the charts, so many possibilities, do I try to make player B take too many blue tiles? do I put two tiles in the 5 line so that I'm not stuck with them later? I need only one of those tiles not three. Nothing left to the randomness of a dice roll or card turn. This looks great and it's so smart. I think i'm going to get it. Thanks guys.
I count color/row/column points at the same time as a tile is placed so that we know the real score in real time so that I can decide wether it is worth to end the game or not by completing a row ;)
Weird cut at 22:20, watch Nikki's head.
Anyways, thanks for showing this game. I wasn't quite grasping what was going on with the descriptions on other videos. Seeing this gameplay made it "click" for me.
At 44:38 - It's Nikki's turn to count. She moves the yellow tile forward to make a vertical row = 7 points, but she also creates a horizontal row of 2 tiles with that move at the top + 2 total 9 points. I don't see her count the horizontal row. I'm a newbie so I don't know if I'm not understanding something or if I caught an omission.
she actually would have gotten 5 points for the vertical row (she doesn't get the 7 bonus points for that row until the end) and 3 points for the horizontal row she created. - She should have had 8 points.
52:55 Start player can be quite good. Often, you really need the perfect tile, or set of tiles, and being able to grab them early is important. Also, when you get 1st pick, you also get 5th, 9th, etc. Every pick should be better than the picks of the person in the 4th seat. The only real advantage of going last is that the other three players might play sub-optimally and leave you a pile of things in the middle to grab. But that's about as likely with the 5th pick as with the 4th.
Love Dave's energy here
Big fun!
During Lincoln’s last scoring round (44:08), he accidentally bumped his score marker and placed it back one point less. So essentially, Lincoln tied with Mike for the win...unless there was some other scoring mistake to offset that.
We all feel that the scoring tracks are the worst. They either need to be sunken, add a board (like for Terraforming Mars) or a shared score track.
Is it me or Lincoln did a mistake by place those snowflake tile on a new row while still having another row with the same tile type uncompleted? Isn't this against rules? 38:46 mark
Nope. You CAN have more than one incomplete row of the same colour.
He had a "-1" tile (44:22), which he said he didn't have (44:37), so I'm thinking he caught it.
If you have two rows with the same color example the third and four rows, And you have two ties in each, and then you grab three tiles of that color, can you put one in the space left in the third row and two in the two spaces left in the four row? Or it only put in one row and the rest go to the floor (or two in one row and the left tile in the floor)?
You can only add tiles to one row per turn so if you draw three tiles and place them in a row with only two spaces you do drop the remaining tile. Thanks for the note and for watching. -Lincoln
At 25:10, can’t Dave put three tiles in row three before he fills his floor? Never mind, I realized he already had blue filled. 😀
Can I take the pieces of a color and put them directly in the minus-points row even I have valid choices at the board? E.g. @42:30 Can I put these two blueflakes at the bottom row?
Okay I’m probably going to look really stupid for asking this. (I just bought the game) and haven’t played yet… BUT!! Wouldn’t the game basically end after 5 rounds if a player just takes the tile he needs for the top row which is (1) tile to fill in order to move to the right. Seeing how there’s 20 of each colour? Wouldn’t odds be greatly in the favour of whoever wants to do this? Or will the fact that extra tiles get pushed to the box for (X) amount of rounds prevent/lower odds of this happening?
You could probably do that, but unless you're going to win - or think you have a chance of winning - why would you force the end of the game? Sure, you might be completing a column or getting the fifth of a color at the same time, but you have to look at the bigger picture and try to end the game when you're in the lead. -WEM
The game looks interesting
We've been playing this a ton in my house. Great game. Great video! You guys going to play Clans of Caledonia?
We are hoping we get a chance to.
does the "start" player get a -1 for the last round (since they're not actually going first in the nonexistent next round)?
Yes they do, cause the -1 point comes from the fact that he was the first player to take tiles from the middle in the past round, so it's like a penalty point for being the first to do that :)
Lincoln, that jersey is amazing :)
Geeky Jerseys are awesome. They are expensive but I can't help myself.
Hi, is it alowed to grab four tiles of the same colour out of the pocket and place them on the circle?
You grab tiles from the bag at random, and if you grab four of the same color, then so be it! The chance of this happening - or just getting good stuff in general - often makes the 1-point penalty for grabbing the first-player tile worth it. -WEM
At 38:50, wouldn’t Lincoln’s have to use that white and blue tile with the others in the third row instead of the single at the top? I thought you couldn’t add it to another row unless the one already was filled.
No, you can start multiple rows of the same color. This often won't be a great idea, but sometimes you'll find the right reason to do so, such as grabbing four tiles of a color from the center and putting them all in the four row instead of placing two in the half-filled five row and dropping the rest. -WEM
Great video! but you did a mistake by explaining the variant. you are still restricted to put only one tile of each color in one row (like in the basic version), so your example with the red tiles doesn't work.
You are correct. It is like playing sudoku but you get to place all the numbers on your own, without breaking the rule of each number appearing only once per line or column. I usually explain the variant that way :)
I bought this game but my family didn't liked it and my friends didn't understood it.... i need more friends
I'm curious about a scoring rule.. at 14:00 Dave has scored the single tile as 1 and scores the second tile as 2, but shouldn't it be 3? As 1 for horizontal + 2 for vertical?
If you have one tile by itself, it scores 1 point. If the tile has anything orthogonally adjacent, then you only score the adjacencies. So 1 for the single, and 2 because there is something adjacent. You only score horizontal + vertical if there are adjacent tiles in both directions.
Thanks for clearing that up.
I just came from another video explaining this game and I fee like they're playing it entirely differently.
I bought this game this past weekend ... it’s completely different. Did they make multiple versions?
Yes, Azul was the first title in 2017, with Azul: Stained Glass of Sintra coming in 2018 and Azul: Summer Pavilion in 2019. Here's a complete list of Azul titles: www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgamefamily/57039/game-azul/linkeditems/boardgamefamily -WEM
@@boardgamegeek thanks ... I checked the box and I have the stained glass one. Which is the best of the three, in your opinion?
24:49 Dave gets hit with -14 points!
Dave at 25:00 !
And yet he did very good
All those blue tiles to Dave board, ohhh poor teacher!!! LOL
Mike is so cute
Thanks. My bf appreciates that too.
One of us. Nice!
I'm with Lincoln, it took me awhile to come to terms with the artistic style of the game. I'm also really anal about the tiles flopping around on the board. For me, buying the accessory set with the acrylic fitted overlays is a must. With the tiles properly managed, I was finally able to concentrate on the game and score big.
What is the accessory you can buy?
@@rippsteakface it's a kit with 4 plastic overlays that go over the gameboards. The overlays have form-fitted depressions where the tiles go keeping them neatly in place. The kit also comes kit four new boards with more challenging tile layouts. Cost about $14 bucks.
@@rengarcia5189 Do you have a link? There’s all sorts I see available
@@rippsteakface I'll look around. I got it at a local hobby shop.
In points is a tie. In 44:11 Lincoln has 32 and when he accidentally hits his cube he puts it in 31, so in the end he should have one more point.
But he also didn't take a negative point at the end that he should've taken (he forgets he had a white and blue tile on the negatives), so the score ended up being exactly right.
boy giving me Big Danny DeVito Energy
Try not to eat the game pieces 😂 he must also love Azul Master Chocolatier!
The rule at 54:14 is not correct. You also cannot have more than one tile of one color in a (horizontal) row. Otherwise, another great episode.
It's a heavy mistake in the first print's rulebook. Should be like Dejan said neither vertical nor horizontal. Very tough side. Prefer the base one, but glad to have the pro one as well.
How is it a mistake in the rulebook? The variant says that all base game rules apply except as noted in the variant. And the base game rules make clear that you cannot place the same color tile in the same horizontal row more than once.
It's not a mistake, per se, but it's poorly worded. They should have left off the last sentence in the variant rules, IMO. Mike Young of Plan B games posted today (12/20) in the BGG forums that "In future editions, we made a stronger effort to make this more clear...." Fantastic game, though!
Agree!
just to prove Dejan's point, the rule book says: "in each of the 5 vertical lines of your wall, no color may appear more than once. Also keep in mind that in each horizontal line, no color may appear more than once either."
Amzing video... I would lime if you would continue some of your coop games like harry potter and the dreseden files
Zaq Ponce I think they try to avoid spoilers in most games.
Malix Corvin Yes but its the viewers choice if they want to watch it
Zaq Ponce I think the point of their show is to show people how it’s played and explain rules. They try to avoid spoilers while teaching you how to play.
A game like time stories would be absolutely ruined if you watched them play it with all story spoilers.
And I get that it’s up to the viewer to watch or avoid it but what if you’re trying to learn to play and you come here to see a video of that? Which I’ve done many times.
That being said, they have such a large backlog of games that it wouldn’t even be feasible for them to play those games more than once on video. And, personally, I’d rather them focus on showing a new game all the time. But that’s just my personal opinion.
I get what you’re saying though. But most channels don’t do that either.
Hilarious at 25:08 !
Err - I have to ask: what was the pun with not eating the game pieces? I didn't get it. (Oops.)
Yan Hey they look like Starburst candies and like some Belgian Chocolates.
Oh - right! I guess there's a bit of that, indeed. I'll have to carry the instructions over when I get to play it! Thanks! :-)
I have a difficult time understanding his instructions
Dammit. I bought one because of this video. I watched three other videos and said pass, pass, pass. I watch this one . . . money spent. LOL
Poor dave. Getting the -14. Lol. 😅
I'm thinking of buying Azul but after watching this review/gameplay i'm not so sure anymore. It just doesn't look like a fun game :-(
It's fun. I can easily spend 2-3 hours playing it with my family.
I wish I had enough people to play board games with. Also Dave getting fucked with that -14 made me happy.
Its a better bingo
Nikki puts me to sleep