About Sagrada
Inspired by the Sagrada Família. Draft dice each round and place them in your window following colour and shade restrictions. Simple enough for families, crunchy enough for enthusiasts.
Is Sagrada Right for You?
Best for
Sagrada is a lovely light puzzle for one to four players who enjoy drafting dice and solving a spatial colour-and-shade grid, all themed around building a stained-glass window. It is quick at thirty to forty-five minutes, gorgeous with its translucent dice, and works beautifully as a relaxed couples or family game. The constraints make every draft a satisfying little brain-teaser.
Maybe skip it if…
If you crave heavy interaction or thematic depth, Sagrada is fairly solitaire and abstract; you mostly tend your own window. Players who dislike dice luck affecting which colours appear may be frustrated on a bad draft.
How to Play Sagrada
Setup
Each player gets a window pattern card and wooden frame. Deal tool and public objective cards.
On Your Turn
- Roll all dice and place in the bag.
- Draft one die each in turn order — place in window following restrictions (no adjacent same colour or number).
- Score public and private objectives.
How to Win
Most points after 10 rounds.
💡 Strategy Tips
Private objectives are huge — prioritise your secret colour early.
Common Mistakes to Avoid
- Breaking the core placement rule: dice may not touch another die of the same colour or the same value orthogonally.
- Forgetting that the first die of the game must be placed on an edge or corner space of your window.
- Misreading your window pattern's printed colour and shade restrictions and placing an illegal die.
- Leaving empty spaces unnecessarily, since each open space costs you a point at the end.
Advanced Strategy
- Plan the trickier centre spaces early, because corners and edges are easier to satisfy later with leftover dice.
- Use tool cards deliberately; spending favor tokens to flip or adjust a die can rescue an otherwise impossible placement.
- Read all public objectives at setup and steer your window toward the ones that synergise with your private goal.
- Hold back flexible spaces for high-value dice so you can chase a colour or shade scoring objective.
Variants & House Rules
5-6 Player Expansion
Adds components and rules to extend the game to five or six players, including private draft pools.
Passion and Glory promo set
Promotional tool cards and objectives that add variety to the base drafting and scoring.
Life and Artisans expansions
Add new tools, objectives, and components that introduce fresh restrictions and ways to score across your window.
Video Guides
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Our Verdict
We find Sagrada a beautiful, breezy puzzle that punches above its light weight, ideal as a palate cleanser or a gateway into drafting games. It is more solitaire than confrontational, but the window you build is so pretty and the puzzle so clean that we happily recommend it.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Sagrada good solo?
Yes, the base game includes a single-player mode where you race against a target score, and it is a tidy solo puzzle.
How long does Sagrada take?
Around thirty to forty-five minutes, often less once players know the placement rules.
What are the dice placement rules in Sagrada?
A die cannot be orthogonally adjacent to another die of the same colour or the same number, and the very first die must go on an edge or corner.
Do I need the 5-6 player expansion?
Only if you regularly play larger groups; the base game supports up to four, and the expansion cleanly extends it to six.