05/29/2026
This month, youth coordinator Cherilyn says, "I picked up my personal copy of Sagrada on a whim in a speed run through Barnes and Noble while my family waited in the car and it has become one of my favorites, both in our collection and in my own. Sagrada is a dice drafting game. Each player has a stained glass window that they are building out of colored translucent dice. A pattern card slips into the cardboard frame (that keeps the dice in place) and has varying levels of difficulty. Dice are rolled and drafted with a few rules. The same number may not be placed orthogonally to each other. The same color cannot be placed orthogonally to each other. (They can each be placed diagonally.) It’s a very simple set of rules but additional points are earned when criteria that change with each game are met. Three separate public objective cards are drawn each game, for example, an extra 5 points for every row that has a different color in each space or extra points for the same color in diagonals. Additionally, each player has a color that will earn them extra points based on the value of the dice added together. There are a few tool cards that allow swaps and special actions. If your board is incomplete at the end, which it often can be because of the placement restrictions, you lose points.
Overall, this is a puzzle-like game that can be played solo or up to four players. The age range is 10+ but I have played it with younger family and friends, modifying the placement restrictions and simply having them try to fill the pattern on their card. (The grown ups in the group are still held to the strictest standards, of course.) The colors are fun. The art is beautiful. No two games are ever the same."
Sagrada is available at Cuba Library in our board game collection.
