Alhambra The Red PalaceÂ
- Designer: Dirk Henn
- Publisher: Queen Games
- Players: 2-6
- Age: 8+
- Time: 45-60 minutes
- Amazon Affiliate Link: https://amzn.to/3zh68Ph
- Played with review copy provided by publisher
The Red Palace is a standalone game set in the Alhambra Universe that provides a new style of gameplay and is designed specifically for more complexity in the base game. It features:
- The (3D wooden) buildings and walls are now separated.
- Guards as a new mechanic, which make choosing and constructing buildings more exciting and introduce new powerful extra actions that might bring you closer to victory!
Each player constructs their own Alhambra by taking money cards and using these to purchase buildings of different types. Which buildings you can build are displayed on the building market. Unlike the base game of Alhambra, the buildings are not printed on the tiles, but instead players draw a tile and then a chip which tells them which of the wooden buildings is placed onto the tile. In each of the three scoring rounds, players will receive points if they have the most of each building type, as well as points for their longest connected wall segment.
The game ends when the building market can no longer be replenished from the building tile supply, and there is a final scoring, whereupon the player with the highest score wins.
Note: All existing expansions for Alhambra can be added to Red Palace except currently the tile based expansions from the Mega Box are not compatible due to the different size of the tiles (45mm vs 50mm)
Alison Brennan: Game Snapshots – 2024 (Part 5)
It’s fair to say that being transgender isn’t easy. No one willingly chooses a life of repression, depression and constant crushing loneliness; which beforehand takes the form of not being able to be open about yourself to anyone – ever – and afterwards takes the form (for the unlucky ones) of losing family and friends and having no one to turn to for support. I’m one of the lucky ones.
There are some neat things about being transgender though that begin to crystallise once life’s circumstance, opportunity and comfort levels align and you finally take the steps to open up and let go:
–     The world is a much warmer place than you imagine. Gaming buddies, friends, work colleagues, people I’ve never met before … all, without exception, have said no probs, be who you are, we’ll support you. My boys gave immediate acceptance. Their age group has already normalised trans socialisation far more than any other and they ‘get’ it. Compare back to 10, 20, 30 years ago where it felt your only chance of avoiding hate and rejection were by being perfectly passable from the get-go. I do realise this is still the case for many parts of the world so I count my blessings I live where I do.
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