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I've played a few games of Azul now, predominantly 2-player on the grey side. A lot of players restrict the score they can get by forcing their placements into the same diagonally-striped pattern as on the coloured side. If you do this, you likely score fewer points because you're probably not placi...

Game speed
Real-time • Fast paced

Why join a fast-paced game if you want to spend a minute between each move?

"Professional" variant.

This is in the rules.

I found that this complaining stopped happening at ELO over about 350...

Thank you! Yes, I had the rightmost setting set to Automatic. There is no need to show the number of tables on Automatic matching because you aren't choosing a table; the system is finding a table for you. I think it could still show which games have tables waiting, as Automatic matching would be a ...

Strange, I have never seen an alternative blue button with a table icon. This is what I see: https://i.imgur.com/sm9D2WC.png I have 'Large' icons showing. If I wait, none of the games ever change to show a # of tables with vacant spaces. And I know Azul has tables popping up constantly. Any ideas?

Looks fine to me.

I found that the accusations of dirty play go away once you get over about 400 ELO.