#sagrada

Gameplay

Mechanics: Players take turns pulling delicious-looking gorgeous translucent dice from a bag to create the round's dice pool. Each player then gets two opportunities to choose a die from the pool and place it into their window. Adjacent dice cannot share a color or number, and window panels chosen at the start of the game provide additional placement restrictions. To assist with these restrictions, players can spend favor tokens to use tool cards. While designing their windows, players attempt to complete three shared goals, and one individual secret goal. After ten rounds, the game ends, and the windows are scored according to the goal cards.

Teaching and Learning: Sagrada is easy to teach and to learn, making it great for casual tabletop gamers, family game nights, and bringing to a friend's house. If you've played Sudoku, the rules are even more intuitive.

Complexity: While the game is rather simple on the surface, there is some strategy involved. Failing to plan ahead can cause you to block yourself out of part of your window. And, you can always sabotage your friends by taking the dice they need and making their favorite tools more expensive.

Replay value: There are several starting window panes, each with different requirements and difficulty levels. Combined with multiple options for shared and personal goals, Sagrada does have some replay value. However, the base gameplay remains the same every time, making it easy to burn out after playing several times in short succession.

Single-player mode: Sagrada does have a solo mode in which the player attempts to beat a target score. The difficulty can be adjusted by changing the number of available tool cards.

Specifications

Expansions:

Sagrada offers a set of three expansions known as "The Great Facades," which can be used alone or together to add additional mechanics to the game.

Passion - balances objectives and adds individual player powers

Life - adds additional abilities with apprentices, and rewards for managing tricky restrictions

Glory - introduces new types of objectives that cater to different play styles or reward the first player to reach them, as well as highly restricted Strife Dice

Another expansion is available to increase the number of players per game.

5 - 6 Player Expansion

Durability: The dice are well-made from plastic in a black fabric bag. Window boards are double-layered cardboard of high quality. Window pane cards are thin by necessity, but as durable as can be expected. Cards are of average quality.

Table Space: Small. Each player has a window board and favor tokens. six cards, the round / score tracker, and dice are shared.