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The 5 Hows: Azul
Dec
17
2025
This is a guide for how to play the game Azul.
1. How do I win?
By having the most points at the end of all the rounds.
2. How do I get points?
By placing tiles on The Wall during The Wall Phase. Update your score each round.
3. How do I place tiles?
You place them on The Wall from each line you’ve completed in your Pattern Lines during The Factory phase (or Pattern Line phase).
4. How do you get tiles in your Pattern Lines?
You draw them from the Factory, in turns until all tiles are gone. You draw all tiles of one color from one pile at a time. Fill in your pattern lines, making sure to complete pattern lines during this time so that you can place tiles on The Wall after The Factory phase.
5. How does the game end?
On the round when someone fills one horizontal row with all 5 tiles, that becomes the last round. You do your scoring like normal, and then you add in the bonus scoring to finish.
It took us a round or two for it to make sense. I recommend paying attention to the bonus scoring items so you know what your goals should be.
There, now go play Azul.
But when they did not find any way to bring him in because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and let him down through the tiles with his stretcher, into the middle of the crowd, in front of Jesus.
Luke 5:19
This little article thingy was written by Some Guy sometime around 6:15 am and has been carefully placed in the Fun category.
