Alhambra: Designers' Expansion – Extensions / The New Building Ground (2019)

These expansions were offered as part of the Silver Level pledge for Alhambra: Designers' Expansions Box

The Alhambra's iconic buildings get extensions to make them even more valuable for players.

With the Extensions expansion, a new board and a new action players can take on their turn are introduced. The board is separated into 4 areas each housing 3 randomly drawn extensions for the buildings.

The new action players can take is to go and build those extensions to increase the value of their already build buildings in their Alhambra. Each extension is individual to one building. In order to buy an extension from one of the areas of the new board the player has to pay with money cards depicted above each area. The value of the money card is hereby irrelevant, only the colors have to match. Once purchased the extension is placed on a corresponding building on the Alhambra. Each building can only hold one extension. During scoring each building with an extension counts as two buildings of that kind.

The extensions alter the game play and strategy greatly and make for a whole new experience while playing Alhambra.

Contents: 12 extension tiles and 1 extension board

The New Building Ground, a brand new expansion by Dirk Henn, players are given more choices to build the building they most desire through the construction sites.

At the start of the game 8 construction site tiles are mixed in with the rest of the buildings. They only show a number and the construction symbol. If one of these tiles shows up at the building market, players can buy it with the corresponding money as normal. But instead of placing the construction site in their Alhambra they can choose a building from a display of buildings that is set-up at the start of the game.

The display has 4 columns each holding 3 randomly drawn buildings. From which column the player can choose, depends on the value shown on the construction site purchased. Each column is dedicated to one of the values. This gives the player more freedom and maybe give you that one building you need to win at a scoring.

Contents: 8 building ground tiles, 12 construction tiles, and 4 number chips