Sagrada is a board game invented in 2017 by Daryl Andrews and Adrian Adamescu and produced and distributed by Floodgate Games. We just recently got it for ourselves and I played my first game with Melissa a couple of weeks ago...1-4 players can play. There are different sets of cards that are used different ways in the game and which dictate what a player's strategy will be as he or she, over the course of 10 rounds, gradually fills in their "window", essentially a 5x4 grid of squares with colored dice drawn at random from a sack. There's a good mixture of strategy, skill and luck in this game...although imposing at first, it didn't take me very long to pick up on the rules, to my surprise: now it's part of our regular game rotation between Melissa, me, and occasionally our grown son Will, who likes these kinds of board games. It's graphically made to look like stained glass windows, and the grids you see the dice resting on in the above photo are really interchangeable, insertable cards that have different patterns on them that govern which dice can be placed where. The three beige cards, along with the three others below them near the photo's center, vary for each game, so the players have to adjust their tactics for amassing the most points...each new game is therefore uniquely different! There's even a free phone app for Sagrada out there, but I have yet to try it: I have enough phone app games as it is and Sagrada for me is simply a good way to socialize with my loved ones...
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