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Oct 31, 2025·How to play·06:37·2·Watch on YouTube

How to Play Azul: Summer Pavilion – Complete Board Game Tutorial & Scoring Guide

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Watch “How to Play Azul: Summer Pavilion – Complete Board Game Tutorial & Scoring Guide,” a how-to-play guide for Azul: Summer Pavilion on BoardGameVideo.

Description provided by GameRules Studio on YouTube:

Welcome to Azul: Summer Pavilion 🎨 — a stunning abstract strategy game of color, symmetry, and precision! In this video, you’ll learn how to play Azul: Summer Pavilion, designed by Michael Kiesling. This elegant standalone sequel to the award-winning Azul challenges players to build the royal summer pavilion for King Manuel I of Portugal using beautiful resin tiles. 🎯Azul: Summer Pavilion is an abstract tile-drafting and placement game for 2–4 players, lasting about 30–45 minutes. Players take turns selecting tiles from factory displays and using them to construct star-shaped patterns on their individual boards. The game rewards both long-term planning and tactical timing — collect the right colors, manage wild tiles, and complete stars to earn bonuses and chain-scoring opportunities. Azul: Summer Pavilion blends art and logic into a relaxing yet competitive experience — easy to learn, rewarding to master, and gorgeous on the table. 🎨✨ GameRules Studio helps you learn how to play the world’s best board games. Simple, fast, and clear tutorials with official rules, setup guides, and scoring explanations. #Azul #AzulSummerPavilion #NextMoveGames #MichaelKiesling #BoardGames #AbstractStrategy #FamilyBoardGames #TileDrafting #TabletopGaming #BoardGameTutorial #AzulSeries #BoardGameRules

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Azul: Summer Pavilion

Azul: Summer Pavilion

2019·Michael Kiesling

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Creators
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Mainly reviews and playthroughs. Azul: Summer Pavilion is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 4 reviews, 1 how-to-play guides, 3 recorded sessions, 3 unboxings, and 3 other videos.

2 - 4 players
30 - 45 min
Medium weight: Teach it in one sitting

About Azul: Summer Pavilion, from BoardGameGeek:

At the turn of the 16th Century, King Manuel I commissioned Portugal's greatest artisans to construct grandiose buildings. After completing the Palaces of Evora and Sintra, the king sought to build a summer pavilion to honor the most famous members of the royal family. This construction was intended for the most talented artisans - whose skills meet the splendor that the royal family deserves. Sadly, King Manuel I died before construction ever began. In Azul: Summer Pavilion, players return to Portugal to accomplish the task that never began. As a master artisan, you must use the finest materials to create the summer pavilion while carefully avoiding wasting supplies. Only the best will rise to the challenge to honor the Portuguese royal family. Azul: Summer Pavilion lasts six rounds, and in each round players draft tiles, then place them on their individual player board to score points. Each of the six colors of tiles is wild during one of the rounds. At the start of each round, draw tiles at random from the bag to refill each of the five, seven, or nine factories with four tiles each. Draw tiles as needed to refill the ten supply spaces on the central scoring board. Players then take turns drafting tiles. You can choose to take all of the tiles of a non-wild color on a factory and place them next to your board; if any wild tiles are on this factory, you must take one of them. Place all remaining tiles in the center of the table. Alternatively, you can take all tiles of a non-wild color from the center of play; you must also take one wild tile, if present. After all tiles have been claimed, players then take turns placing tiles on their individual boards. Each board depicts seven stars that would be composed of six tiles; each space on a star shows a number from 1-6, and six of the stars are for tiles of a single color while the seventh will be composed of one tile of each color. To place a tile on the blue 5, for example, you must discard five blue or wild tiles from next to your player board (with at least one blue being required), placing one blue tile in the blue 5 space and the rest in the discard tower. You score 1 point for this tile and 1 point for each tile within this star connected to the newly placed tile. If you completely surround a pillar, statue, or window on your game board with tiles, you get an immediate bonus, taking 1-3 tiles from the central supply spaces and placing them next to your board. At the end of the round, you can carry over at most four tiles to the next round; discard any others, losing 1 point for each such tile. After six rounds, you score a bonus for each of the seven stars that you've filled completely. Additionally, you score a bonus for having covered all seven spaces of value 1, 2, 3 or 4. You lose 1 point for each remaining tile unused, then whoever has the most points wins. -description from the publisher

Designer

Michael Kiesling

Artist

Chris Quilliams

Publisher

Next Move Games

Categories

Abstract StrategyPuzzle

Mechanics

End Game BonusesDrafting
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