Never played Sigrada, so can’t really compare them. But I think people just see similarities for the bright colours 😉

the victory points go to whoever build that guild, based on the max of yellow cities. so if you have 4 and yoir opponemt has 5, you build the guild which counts those, you get 5 VP. if both ülayers have 4, then the max is 4 and that os what you get. The player who doesn’t “own” the guild gets nothing. It is just a way to participate in yoir opponents buildup or to strengthen your own buildup.

One thing that was not mentioned: cities opens up play with 8 players and, it being 7 Wonders, does that in a great way. It was the reason for me to get it and after adding it, never played just base game any more. And after playing with Leaders I am not sure I will actually get it, as for me base+cities just hits the sweet spot. Never played Babel, though, so can’t comment on that. Well, and the wonder pack just gives more wonders, so not really any big change in there.

No specific order, just the games I am willing to play all the time:

• Viticulture EE
• Azul
• Red 7 (my “always with me” game)
• Between Two Cities
• 7 Wonders (with Duel for 2 players and normal otherwise)
• Nations the Dice Game
• Waggle Dance (best intro worker placement, playing with my parents)
• Concordia (Britannica map when playing 2)
• Paperback (best intro deck builder and super fun to play)
• Codenames (pictures for me and must be 6+ players)

I do have more games I love to play, but due to setup time don’t play that often – the above are ones I would just grab and play on request or suggest myself, as their setup is fast and play to me is super fun. All of them have been played a lot. And at least one of them is in my bag on every game night (in addition to Red7, which I have with me anyway 😉 ).

This is my list for multiplayer, changes quite a bit with solo play (viticulture is in both lists, though), as it does if I play with just my wife. And it is slightly skewed to board game night, where we have new people from time to time and are not that much into deep stuff and more into Light-Medium.

My wife and I found it too hard with the words, they somehow just didn’t really work for us. We now play it with the picture cards from Codenames pictures, which works great for us. If we want a quick two player co-op, this is what we grab – super fast setup, nice play time and a fun puzzle to solve.

So far Iliked it – the strategy and tactics is there, but it feels a bit funny. An arcade game that is controlled by a mancala and with the advanced rules for the mancala in use indeed feels strange. You would expect dashing your dragons at each other, but if you want to win, you will more likely do a very clumsy dance and try to position your dragon just right at the right time, and if you see you can’t reach that, abort and run away to try again. But I can totally see where it is not for everybody, because it combines two really unlikely companion parts in the game.