What the heck is this special factories varient?

[deebo7of9]

I signed up to play what I thought was a normal game of Azul and I wound up with this weird variant. What is this and how did I get here?

[sorryimlikethis]

It's a variant that comes with the Master Chocolatier version of Azul. Gameplay is mostly the same except the tiles are reskinned with the Chocolatier colours and a couple of the factories will have minor powers when taking from them. If you don't want to play with it make sure to disable the variant in your automatic queue settings (cog under your game ELO)

[karenparis]

so i have the special factories disables in my settings, but keep getting this from time to time. why does this happen? I am the one starting the game...

[izzyvonhoot]

so i have the special factories disables in my settings, but keep getting this from time to time. why does this happen? I am the one starting the game...

Make sure that you have this setting preference set to "fixed" instead of "flexible". The double arrow button next to the setting is a toggle. If it's set to flexible, you may end up in lobbies that don't match your preferred settings.