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2013 Ranked #1,216

Blueprints

Dice-drafting building game where architects choose colored dice to construct structures from blueprints. Each die offers different advantages, so a beautiful design must also be engineered to earn the awards that decide the contest.

Family Games Dice Pattern Building Set Collection Mechanism: Dice Drafting

Players

2-4

Play time

Not listed

Age

14+

Complexity

1.69/5

Rating

6.80

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.4/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 4.0/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.8/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.0/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

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.

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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?

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Play and group

Players
2–4
Best with
2–4
Play time
30 min
Age
14+
Complexity
1.7/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
Yves Tourigny

Artists

2
Philippe Guérin Chris Quilliams

Publishers

1
Z-Man Games

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