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A Beautiful Dice Drafting Game: Sagrada Review

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As a skilled artisan, you will use tools-of-the-trade and careful planning to construct a beautiful stained glass window masterpiece in the Sagrada Familia.

In Sagrada, you play as a stained glass artisan tasked with crafting stained glass windows of the famed Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, Spain. This Roman Catholic cathedral was started in 1882 and is still being built to this day.  The current estimate of its completion is 2026-2028. It’s known for its beautiful stained glass windows which are the basis of this game’s theme.

Sagrada is a gorgeous 2-4 player game designed by Adrian Adamescu and Daryl Andrews. It is published by Floodgate Games. An average game takes between 20-40 minutes depending on player count.

Sagrada $44.95

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Gain prestige by adapting to the preferences of your fickle admirers, and of course, by adding your own artistic flair while completing your glass masterpiece in Sagrada.

Ok, history lesson over! In Sagrada, each player will take a window shaped player board and choose from two randomly picked double-sided window templates. These templates will dictate what dice values and what color dice can go in certain panels. Then each player receives a private scoring objective and three random public objectives and three random tools to have access to. This gives each game a new experience and keeps things fresh.

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Once the game begins, the first player will roll the dice that remain on the values unless certain tools allow otherwise. Then starting with the first player everyone will snake draft the dice. Snake drafting means the first player takes a die then each player in clockwise order takes one and the last player takes a second turn and it goes back counterclockwise back to the first player. After you choose a die you place on your panel but you can never place the same number or color orthogonally to another of the same. Diagonal is fine and you must place each consecutive dice adjacent to an existing die. You may also use a tool utilizing your glass beads after or before drafting a die. Harder window panels will give you more of these glass tokens.  Players will continue this process until ten rounds have passed. Once that is over everyone will score points for their private objective which involves scoring the pibs of one of the five colors. Then, the public objectives will score and players will also lose a point for each unfinished window pane.

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Sagrada is simply a wonder to look at featuring some of the most striking components I have seen. The clear acrylic dice in their rainbow of colors really invokes the look of a stained glass window. Plus, when your window is finished it just looks stunning.  The dice come in a beautiful dice bag with a screen printed game logo. Everything about the game is pure artwork.

If you are looking for a uniquely themed game that is very nice to look at and is lightweight with puzzle element then this game is right up your alley. It is one I like to bring to the table when we have new players or even non-gamers at game night.

Also, some good news for people who tend to have larger playgroups, there has been an announcement for a 5-6 player expansion. This will add some new window templates and tools as well as some mechanics that utilize private dice pools as to cut out on downtime.

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About the Author: Christopher Guyton

When not driving forklifts for a living Chris can be found pushing cubes and chucking dice at Gamer’s Guild in Spring Lake, NC