Lookout Games Patchwork Board Game – an Interactive Two-Player Quilting Puzzle Strategy Game by Uwe Rosenberg, Fun for Kids & Adults, Ages 8+, 2 Players, 30 Minute Playtime
Original price was: $34.99.$26.46Current price is: $26.46.
Patchwork is a form of needlework that involves sewing together pieces of fabric into a larger design. In the past, it was a way to make use of leftover pieces of cloth to create clothing and quilts. Today, patchwork is a form of art, in which the designers use precious fabrics to create beautiful textiles. The use of uneven pieces of fabric in particular can result in real masterpieces and is therefore being practiced by a large number of textile artists. To create a beautiful quilt, however, requires effort and time, but the available patches just do not want to fit together. So choose your patches carefully and keep a healthy supply of buttons to not only finish your quilt, but to make it better and more beautiful than your opponent‘s.
QUILTING CHALLENGE: Engage in a delightful quilting challenge as you and a friend compete to create the most visually appealing patchwork quilt on your 9×9 game boards.
TWO-PLAYER EXCELLENCE: Designed specifically for two players, Patchwork delivers an exceptional and immersive gaming experience tailored to pairs of friends or family members.
STRATEGIC PUZZLER: With each turn, players face the mystery of the next patch they’ll receive, requiring careful planning and layout strategies to achieve the highest score.
FAMILY-FRIENDLY FUN: Patchwork is easy to learn, making it an ideal choice for both parents and kids to enjoy quality bonding time while crafting beautiful quilts.
CAPTURE THE ART OF NEEDLEWORK: Renowned game designer Uwe Rosenberg captures the essence of quilting in this classic board game, providing hours of creative entertainment.
S. Nazz –
Best 2 player game ever! Each game takes about 30 mins. Easy to understand the rules.
~ Rainy/snowy/too hot weekend? Got the stew stewing or pie baking? Not all friends could come over? Got about 20 minutes to kill? Well, this is the perfect game for you to play with your friend/roommate/partner/husband/child/anyone you’ve got there! But please note that you can only play this with one friend; not the whole squad – for this is strictly a 2-player game!~ What’s all the stuff here? Well, you’ve got a lot of blue buttons, 33 patches, two quilt boards (lime green and yellow) and two time tokens of the same colors corresponding to these quilt boards, One Time board (the one with the spiral steps), One Neutral Token (the one that looks like Chess coin), Five 1×1 patches (the tiny leather patches), One 7×7 button tile (special tile).~ Rules:1. Each player picks one quilt board and the time token of the color corresponding to the color of their quilt board. Sit opposite to each other.2. Place the time board at the center. Both the time tokens have to be placed at the beginning of the spiral in the time board (As the game progresses, you literally spiral your way through time!). Place the 1×1 patches at the corresponding blanks on the time board. Arrange all the 33 patches randomly around the time board.3. Locate the smallest of the 33 patches. You’ll find a tiny 2×2 rectangular patch. The Neural token (the grey chess like coin) has to be placed between this patch and it’s immediate patch in the clockwise direction (refer to picture attached). The game proceeds in the clockwise direction from the neutral token.4. Each player gets 5 buttons to begin with.5. The player who last picked a needle must start the game. If neither of you have done that, just toss for it!6. During your turn, you have two choices:Choice A: Buy a patch of your choice by paying the number of buttons indicated on that patch. You are eligible to buy any of the first three patches that are immediately adjacent to the neutral token in the clockwise direction. When you do pick a patch, move the neutral token to the now empty spot created by you taking this patch. Now you can use this patch to create a quilt on your quilt board. Use the patch wisely! Next, move your time token as per the number of steps indicated by the hourglass on that patch that you’ve just used. As long as your time token is further behind or on top of your opponent’s time token, it is still your turn! Yes. This game does not necessarily alternate turns.Choice B: You decide to rest. Here you just pass over your opponent’s time token; exactly to the next space. Not one step more or less. You’ll receive one button for each of the spaces that you’ve crossed. Now that your time token is in front of your opponent’s, your turn is over!7. When your time token spirals it’s way through the time board, You might happen to pass through some special places. When you cross a button checkpoint, count the number of buttons on the quilt that you’ve created on your work board (this doesn’t include the buttons that you spent buying the patches but rather the huge buttons on the patches). You receive these many buttons from the reserve. Also, in case you are the first player to land onto or pass over a 1×1 patch, you get that patch. These patches go to the first player to land on or pass over them and MUST BE USED IMMEDIATELY.8. The first player to build a complete 7×7 quilt (without any empty spaces) on their work board gets the special 7×7 tile. This corresponds to 7 buttons. (PS. The work board itself is 9×9)9. So that’s it. When both the time tokens reach the center of the time board, the game ends.10. Point calculation: Add all the buttons that you have left. From this subtract the number of empty spaces on your work board multiplied by 2.~ So that’s pretty much it. You can refer to the pictures that I’ve attached to get more of an idea.~ You’ll definitely get familiar with the rules when you play a game or two. The rules are very simple. And the game is fun!~ Also, I’ve noticed that this game does not involve much fighting or cheating. Just a fun and friendly game that helps you while away a max of 30 mins .
Bill & Kim Tarbell –
Fun casual, but still strategic 2P game
This is quite a fun two player game. The game length depends heavily on how long players spend analyzing their turn. We’ve found it takes us roughly 20 minutes or so.Do note that the game is only for two players. It’s printed rather largely on the box cover, but I just wanted to reiterate in case it were overlooked.The artwork on the game pieces has a cute feel to it and was actually the reason i chose to buy the game (my wife loves sewing crafts). While it certainly doesn’t hurt gameplay, one improvement i’d make is to include real plastic buttons rather than cardboard ones. If someone felt so inclined, this could be an easy upgrade you could add to the game yourself without much cost.. some people, like my grandma, have jars full of buttons laying around!The rules of the game are short and rather simple. At the start of the game you feel as if the game might be too trivial and might not have enough strategy incorporated. However, it wont be long until you realize that’s far from the case. For being such a simple game concept with a small rulebook, it is packed full of strategy. There’s the obvious layout concern for your card, but then there are additional considerations such as managing your button income, defensively choosing a piece or advancing beyond a piece so your opponent can’t get their ideal piece, not progressing too quickly around the board, but also not going so slow that you’re strapped for funds.There’s a bonus scoring of filling a certain sized region of your board, however we usually are unable to achieve this without making sacrifices or just getting lucky. One possible twist you can add to the game is to come up with your own regions/shapes to achieve points.. kind of like how bingo can be an X, a square, etc. You could make any type of regions/bonus points you want.The simple concept of the game would make it a good gateway game.. but it would really need a 4 player variant for that to work for us. I’d love to see a 4 player expansion put out for this game where you got a couple quilt boards and it doubled-up the patches and buttons (these would need to have an indicator on them so you could remove them for a 2 player game again).We enjoy this game quite a bit, but i don’t think i’d consider it in our main rotation.. but it’s very close. The game is well balanced and has good strategy involved.. it just doesn’t have enough dynamics to it to make it something you play on high rotation. That said, i’m glad we bought it and I’d still buy it again. If they ever do come out with that 4 player expansion i’m sure we’ll pick it up.
Maura –
Patchwork es un juego para 2 jugadores a partir de 8 años que no debería faltar en cualquier ludoteca. Las instrucciones son en inglés pero son muy fáciles. Recomiendo ver en youtube como se juega(hay un montón de vídeos explicandolo). Fue lo que a mi me decidió a comprarlo. Yo juego con mi hija de 9 años y nos encanta a las dos. Lo bueno es que los adultos también se entretienen. Yo estoy enganchada. Hemos jugado solo 4 veces, de las cuales 3 ha ganado ella. Consiste en ir colocando las piezas a modo de tetris, piezas que se compran con botones o avanzando casillas. Interviene la estrategia, ya que dependiendo de la ficha que compres, rellenas mejor o peor el tablero y consigues más o menos botones. Gana el que tiene más botones al final. Las casillas que se quedan vacías descuentan 2 puntos cada una al final. Lo tiene todo. El precio está muy bien(yo lo he comprado por 17€). La calidad es buena y es muy vistoso. La caja es pequeña y ocupa poco. Las partidas son cortas, como mucho 30′. En las fotos se ven como quedaron nuestros tableros al final del juego. Puedo decir que es de los juegos que más me gusta jugar.
Christine A J –
Article reçu en parfait état. Boite 20 x 20 cm peu encombrante. Bonne qualité du matériel (carton épais), pions en bois et joli design général. Même si le “thème couture” pourrait sembler rebutant pour certains, on l’oublie très vite. La règle est très bien faite, simple à comprendre. Ce jeu basé sur le principe du Tétris permet de faire de bonnes stratégies et de bons calculs. C’est très fun, ingénieux et assez addictif. Un excellent jeu pour deux.
Sylvain –
love this game with my partner, we don’t play too much, it’s not the most competitive one, even if we need to try to steal some opportunities from the other with the tiles.. it’s more a solo puzzle game to play against the other. but still it’s nice, cute, interesting. once in a while we are happy to grab this box and have a go. easy to play and set up ! love it
Stefanie Kellner –
Uns macht es sehr viel Spaß. Es ist kurzweilig und wir tüfteln immer wieder an einer geeigneten Strategie. Überraschenderweise benötigt man zumindest am Anfang des Spiels doch recht viel Platz auf dem Tisch für die Patchwork-Teile. Zum nebenbei unterwegs mal schnell zocken daher eher weniger geeignet, obwohl die handliche Verpackung anderes vermuten lässt. Aber zur Not findet man wahrscheinlich auch dafür Lösungen 😉
lukas k –
Super nice game, easy to play