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Patchwork score sheet
How do you score Patchwork? Once, at the end, so a Patchwork score sheet needs only three lines: the buttons you have left, plus 7 if you hold the special tile, minus 2 for every empty square on your quilt. The higher score wins, and a score can go below zero.
- 2 players
- About 30 minutes
- Ends at the time board’s last space
- Higher score wins
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This is the real Scorepad, live: your buttons, plus the special tile, minus the holes worked out first.
Patchwork
- BGG #149
- 30 min
A two-player quilting puzzle: spend buttons and time on fabric patches to fill your 9x9 quilt board, collecting button income as you go. At the end, the buttons you hold are your score, and every hole in your quilt costs you.
Year, players, time and rank from BoardGameGeek.
How to play Patchwork, in brief
In this two-player game, patches cost buttons and time, and you fit them onto your quilt. Buttons count as points too; the higher score wins.
- Set upEach player takes a quilt board and 5 buttons. Lay the patches around the time board, with the neutral token just after the smallest.
- The player behind goesWhoever is behind on the time board goes, even several turns in a row. The game ends when both tokens reach the end.
- Buy a patchPay for one of the 3 patches after the neutral token and fit it on your quilt. Move the neutral token there and your time token by the patch’s time.
- Or skip aheadMove your time token just past your opponent’s, taking 1 button per space. Passing a button on the time board pays the buttons on your patches.
Buttons in hand, holes in the quilt.
Buttons are your money all game: you pay them for patches and collect them as income. Only the buttons you still hold at the end score, and every square of your quilt left empty takes 2 of them back.
What scores at the end
| What | Points |
|---|---|
| Each button you have leftYou start with 5 and earn more as income during play | 1 |
| The special tileIt goes to the first player to fill a complete 7x7 square | 7 |
| Each empty square on your quilt board | Minus 2 |
| Buttons printed on your patchesThey pay income during the game, not points at the end | 0 |
- Play out the time boardThe game ends once both time tokens have reached the last space. A token that would pass it stops there.
- Count your buttonsOnly the buttons you hold now score, 1 point each.
- Add the special tileIf you were first to fill a complete 7x7 square, add 7.
- Take 2 for each holeCount your empty squares and subtract twice that number. The higher score wins; a tie goes to whoever reached the last space of the time board first.
The special tile settles it: You win 20 to 15.
You and Mara, with both time tokens at the end of the board. You were first to fill a 7x7 square and took the special tile. This is the game on the Scorepad above.
| Player | Buttons, the special tile, minus the holes | Final |
|---|---|---|
| You | 21 buttons; the special tile; 4 empty squares, 2 each21 + 7 - 8 | 20 |
| Mara | 27 buttons; 6 empty squares, 2 each27 - 12 | 15 |
Two players, one quick sum each.
Tabletales is a scorepad and scrapbook for game night. For Patchwork, leave it on Highest wins and type each player’s final score: buttons, plus the special tile, minus the holes. Tabletales adds it up, marks the winner and saves the game with the night.
- Holes on the keypadType each final, or type it the way you count it (21 + 7 - 8) and Tabletales adds it up. There is no multiply key, so work out the holes first.
- Below zero is fineA quilt full of holes can finish negative. The Scorepad takes it and shows it in red.
- Ties share the trophyTied players share the trophy. Patchwork gives a tie to whoever reached the end of the time board first.
- And the night is keptSave it with a photo of both quilts. Patchwork gets its own page: how often you two play it, and who holds the high score.
- Everyone who was there
- Photos from the table
- Patchwork, with its scores
Common Patchwork scoring mistakes
- Taking off 1 per empty squareEach empty square on your quilt board costs 2.
- Counting the buttons on your patchesThey pay out as income during the game. Only the buttons you hold at the end score.
- Giving the special tile to the fuller quiltIt goes to the first player to complete a 7x7 square, even if the other quilt ends up fuller.
- Breaking a tie on buttonsThe tiebreaker is who reached the last space of the time board first.
Patchwork scoring, answered
- How do you score Patchwork?
- Count the buttons you have left, add 7 if you hold the special tile, and subtract 2 for every empty square on your quilt board. The higher score wins, and a score can go below zero.
- What is the 7x7 tile in Patchwork?
- A 7-point bonus tile that goes to the first player to fill a complete 7x7 square on their quilt board.
- Who wins a tie in Patchwork?
- The player who reached the last space of the time board first.
Patchwork score sheet
Print one for your rivalry: three games to a page, each with the buttons, the special tile and the empty squares for both of you, and the final at the bottom of each.
Score another game
Patchwork is for exactly two players, and the rules we checked list no scoring variants. Rules checked on 19 October 2026 against Lookout Games’ rules, Lookout Games’ game page and UltraBoardGames. Patchwork is a trademark of Lookout Games. Tabletales is not affiliated with it.
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