Sagrada

In Sagrada, you and up to three friends compete to design and craft historically marvelous stained glass windows. The basic mechanics underlying Sagrada are elegant in their simplicity. Each round, someone grabs a handful of multicolored six-sided die from a bag and rolls them. Then, players take turns drafting and placing the die like shards of stained glass onto a personal 4x5 grid "window," making sure to follow the game's simple placement rules: Dice of the same color or number can't ever touch. As your window fills up, these restrictions can become absolutely crippling, so foresight is a must. Best of all, Sagrada is one of the extremely few games with a single-player mode (an increasingly popular trope for board-game designers) that's actually worth your time. Visually arresting and endlessly replayable, Sagrada is certainly the best puzzle game in a while.