#sagrada

[lapazdelmar]

Cuando mi voz se vuelve silencio y tu existencia poesía

hacemos visible lo que nos une.

Para amarse solo se necesita esa oquedad

sagrada donde solo dos caben.

Buenas noches amor

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Sagrada is a dice-drafting puzzle game, released in 2017 by designers Adrian Adamescu and Daryl Andrews. The game was nominated for a handful of awards in 2017 and the following years. In Sagrada, players take on the role of glaziers and designers building stained glass windows for the Sagrada Familia basilica in Barcelona.

The game starts by players selecting a set of restrictions that are slotted into their player boards, followed by a player taking two dice per player from the bag, rolling them, and putting them in the display to be chosen from for that round. Then that player chooses one die, places it on their board following the slotted restrictions, with orthogonally-adjacent dice of the same number or colour being illegal. The next player than chooses a die to take from the display, and so forth, until the last player’s time to choose. That player then gets to pick two of the dice to place, and the selection order reverses, with that round’s starting player being the last to choose a die as well. Play continues until each player has chosen 20 dice, and slotted them according to their restrictions, the public objectives, and their private objectives. Points are tallied on the scoreboard (pictured above), with most points winning.

Sagrada

Craft the best stained-glass windows by carefully placing colorful translucent dice.

[emeraldplaysgames]

Sagrada

Game design by Daryl Andrews and Adrian Adamescu. Published by Floodgate Games.

Overall Grade: B

Genre: Dice drafting

Price: $$

Players: 1-4, ages 10+

Time: 5 minutes setup + 30 - 45 minutes playtime

Summary: Build something beautiful, and ruin your friends' plans, as you compete to create a stained-glass window out of colorful dice. Strategize to meet goals or prevent others from meeting theirs, adhere to design restrictions, and spend favors to access useful tools. The player who can earn the most victory points is the winner!

Recommended for: Casual game nights, artsy folks, and dragons that hoard dice.

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.

Organization: The box has built-in indentions to keep the cards and boards from sliding around. There is a nice fabric dice bag, and a plastic zipper bag for favor tokens. However, there is no provided way to separate cards that can look quite similar at a glance.

[fallofrome]

I love Sagrada, it is like luck-based sudoku.

[jennykin]

Played the board game Sagrada yesterday, it was really fun!

[dzis-po-raz-pierwszy]

Dziś po raz pierwszy byłam w Barcelonie. I nie wiem czy bardziej czułam się jak w Pradze, czy jak Rzymie, czy jak w Londynie.

I jakoś wcale ten Gaudi i ta Sagrada nie zachwyciły mnie bardziej niż tamto słońce, morze, rośliny i kamienice nieco bardziej klasyczne niż secesyjne pomysły katalońskiego architekta...

[purbleblack]

Eterno Encanto

En tu presencia, me convierto en un loco risueño, como un niño travieso, cautivado por tu encanto. Anheló un tiempo junto a ti, eterno, sin final, donde minutos, horas, años, sean solo un ritual.

Eres mi dulce perdición, mi dicha infinita, mi razón de existir, mi alma bendita. En el abismo de tu amor, me sumerjo sin temor, deseando que este hechizo sea eterno, mi amor.

Bajo tus encantos, soy un ser manipulable, tu sonrisa, un embrujo, volviéndome vulnerable. Cada momento contigo es pura felicidad, anhelando que nunca termine, esa eternidad.

Así, me transformo en un ser irresponsable, perdido en tus ojos, volando hacia lo inimaginable. Quiero que nuestro tiempo juntos se perpetúe, en un cuento interminable, donde solo existas tú.

Y así, bajo el influjo de tu amor, sin tregua, me entrego sin resistencia, sin ninguna refriega. Eres mi motivo de existir, mi razón verdadera, deseo que este sueño nunca se desespera.

En tus brazos encuentro mi paraíso, un rincón sagrado, mi refugio preciso.