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Blueprints

Game ID: GID0049737
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Description

In Blueprints, players are architects who must use different colored dice to build three different structures from blueprints, with the dice providing different advantages to you. In the game, each round progresses like this:

Discover your blueprint.
Each turn, choose a die and place it in your building.
Reveal your building, tally your points, then discover who wins the awards and prizes.

After three rounds, players tally their awards and prizes to see who wins. Who will be the best architect?

Year Published
2013
Transcript Analysis
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Overall sentiment (raw)
negative
Pros
  • appealing if you like dice manipulation games
Cons
  • not as good as Sagrada; lacks originality
  • ultimately felt redundant
Thematic elements
  • shape-building via dice and patterns
  • dice manipulation puzzle
  • abstract puzzle
Comparison games
  • Sagrada
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • dice manipulation — manipulating dice to achieve shapes and patterns
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Quotes (from this video)
  • there's next to no replayability of the game
  • it was too slow to get going it was such a churn and a slog to start gathering resources
  • i'd rather play one of those canonical classics
  • I would happily play this one again
  • it just felt like a bunch of different games mashed together in a pirate themed game
  • not for more experienced gamers
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