Presentation

Patchwork Doodle

Square next to a T

In this version of Patchwork, the patched work of art must be drawn up on a sheet of paper. Eight of 30 patch cards, showing geometric shapes made up from one to seven squares are laid out in a circle; the pawn starts between any two patch cards. You draw the current patch from your start on your drawing sheet; then three rounds of six turns each are played: For a turn, the die is rolled and the rabbit pawn is moved around the patch card circle by 1, 2 or 3 cards accordingly. Then, all players can mark the patch under the pawn on their sheet or pass and/or do a special action - each of the four only once.

You can do a special action at any time, even after you passed your turn or during a scoring: Draw the left or right neighbor of the current patch instead of the patch - mark one single square case in your sheet - split the current patch in two and mark one of the two parts - do one of the three other actions a second time.

After six turns, the round is scored - you select a completely filled rectangle on your sheet and score the biggest square within this rectangle plus additional rows or columns in the square, at your choice. In the 6^th turn of round 3 the dice is not rolled; you select one of the three remaining patch cards. After the scoring of the third round, you deduct one point for each unmarked case on your sheet and win with most points.

Another game of filling areas by Uwe Rosenberg; in direct comparison with Second Chance, Patchwork Doodle offers more planning - you see the shapes that are about to be used. Additional spice is provided by the special action and the sophisticated, unusual scoring.

Players: 1-6+

Age: 8+

Time: 20+

Designer: Uwe Rosenberg

Artist: atelier198

Price: ca. 13 Euro

Publisher: Lookout Spiele 2019

Web: www.lookout-spiele.de

Genre: Geometric shapes, area filling

Users: For families

Special: 1 player

Special: Many players

Version: de

Rules: de en es fr nl pl

In-game text: no

Comments:

Standard basic mechanism

Planning possible due to known shapes

Special actions provide additional tactics

Compares to:

Second Chance, area filling games

Other editions:

999 Games (nl), Funforge (fr), Lookout (en), Lacerta (pl), Maldito (es)

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 0

Dexterity (green): 3

Action (dark green): 0