Patchwork Express Board Game

Product Description

Patchwork Express features the same basic gameplay as Patchwork but with a smaller playing area & with larger & less complex pieces In the game each player tries to build the most aesthetic (and high-scoring) patchwork quilt on a personal 7x 7 game board To start play lay out all of the light-colored patches at random in a circle & place a starting marker in a particular location Each player takes some buttons — the currencypoints in the game — & someone is chosen as the start player On a turn a player either purchases one of the three patches standing clockwise of the starting marker or passes To purchase a patch you pay the cost in buttons shown on the patch move the starting marker to that patch&s location in the circle add the patch to your game board then advance your time token on the time track a number of spaces equal to the time shown on the patch You&re free to place the patch anywhere on your board that doesn&t overlap other patches but you probably want to fit things together as tightly as possible If your time token is behind or on top of the other player&s time token then you take another turn; otherwise the opponent now goes Instead of purchasing a patch you can choose to pass; to do this you move your time token to the space immediately in front of the opponent&s time token then take one button from the bank for each space you moved In addition to a button cost & time cost each patch also features 0-3 buttons & when you move your time token past a button on the time track you earn "button income" sum the number of buttons depicted on your personal game board then take this many buttons from the bank What&s more the time track depicts six 1x 1 patches on it & during set-up you place six actual 1x 1 patches on these spaces Whoever first passes a patch on the time track claims this patch & immediately places it on their game board At some point during the game dark-colored patches are added to what&s available for players to take & these pieces are smaller than the light-colored ones making it more likely that they&ll fill in holes on a player&s board Players 2 Playing time 10 mins Ages 6