Framework

Draft tiles and build a frame network that completes colour tasks, in a calm thirty-minute puzzle.

Designer: Uwe Rosenberg
Published by: Edition Spielwiese
Editions by: Hobby Japan, Pegasus Spiele, Compaya.hu: Gamer Café Kft.

Framework is a quiet tile-laying puzzle about building a display of connected frames. A pile of 120 tiles feeds the table: on each round the lead player reveals one more tile than there are players, everybody takes one in turn, and the lead player is stuck with the last one. You place your tile next to at least one tile in your own display, then see whether you have completed any tasks, each of which you cover with one of your 22 tokens. Tiles carry zero to three frames and zero to three tasks in four colours. A task such as a green 3 is only met if the tile belongs to a group of three tiles with green frames, linked directly or through a chain of orthogonal neighbours. Tasks may even ask for two colours. It is a thirty-minute puzzle for one to four.

Each task needs a connected set of one colourLead player gets the last tileDrafting with 22 tokens each

Who it's for

You like abstract puzzles with a draft, enjoy solo or two-player sessions, and want something compact for a short evening.

Not for you if…

You want a theme or lots of player conflict. Framework is a clean, quiet abstract with little flavour text.

Vibe's take

Quiet and thinky: every tile choice is a small geometry problem, and the draft makes you weigh your gain against what the next person will be left with.