Alhambra: The City Gates

About this expansion

Alhambra: The City Gates is the second expansion for Alhambra, adding four new modules for 2–6 players with a play time of about 60 minutes.

The expansion introduces new ways to develop and score your city. Use the modules individually or combine them to bring additional choices and abilities to the Alhambra experience.

• Feldlager, or camps: These eight tiles feature one or two walls and can be bought and placed outside your wall in certain orientations. During final scoring, each tile in the row adjacent to a camp scores one additional point.
• Diamonds: Eleven diamond cards, valued from 3 to 9, provide a universal currency. A diamond can replace a specified money color, but it cannot be mixed with other money colors. Diamonds are worthless during the final buying round.
• Characters: Ten characters offer different unique abilities. Six are mixed into the money-drawing stack and appear from time to time, then are auctioned among the players. Abilities include counting as 8 points, replacing an open-for-sale tile with a new one from the stack, and drawing a money card when you begin your turn with fewer than three cards.
• City gates: Six gates appear from the money-drawing stack. They can be placed where you have two adjacent parallel walls, causing those walls to no longer count and allowing you to build behind them.

With camps that reward neighboring rows, diamonds that broaden payment options, characters that introduce special abilities, and gates that change how walls function, the expansion adds distinct tools to your city-building plans.

Alhambra: The City Gates expands Alhambra with modular features that can reshape purchasing, construction, and final scoring.