Dicing with depth...

Players:  1-4 Ages:  13+ Time to play:  30-45 minutes Sagrada is described as a "dice drafting and windows crafting" game and was designed by Daryl Andrews and Adrian Ademescu.  It was released in 2017 by Floodgate games.  The object of the game is to construct a stained glass window using brightly coloured dice.  Each player has to contend with various placement rules and of course the other players who may take the dice required from the communal dice drafting pool.  Skill tokens can also be acquired and spent by each player to enable them to use special tools which can help players meet their objectives. It's not very often that you come across a game with such a unique and iconic design, and one which jumps out at you from the shelf when you look at it, but Sagrada is one of those games. The box art is really something.  So vibrant and full of colour, you get drawn towards it like a moth to a flame, and when you open the box every com...

Players:  2 Ages:  8+ Time to play:  15-30 minutes Board gaming can be tough sometimes, with so many similar games on the market it can be difficult to find something new and interesting, something which sparks that sense of excitement.  I must confess that I was in a bit of a lull, biding my time with the familiar and quite frankly just making do. So imagine my glee when I was presented with "patchwork" which is based on the heady and testosterone filled world of patchwork quilt making.   As soon as I saw it, I threw my knitting needles into the air and screamed with delight. Finally! I thought... a game I can get my teeth into. Today I'll be reviewing Patchwork - a tile laying strategy game for two players designed by Uwe Rosenberg and released in 2014. Patchwork is a curious game that sees you purchasing different shaped patches of fabric to create a quilt by filling the squares on a grid that you have in front of you in a kind of Tetris s...