Calico

Sew a quilt one patch at a time: match colours for buttons, match patterns and a cat comes to sleep on it.

The goal

Have the most points when your quilt is full. Points come from three places: design goals, buttons and cats.

1Everyone has a quilt board with three design goals on it. You hold 2 patch tiles, and 3 more sit face up on the table.
2On your turn place one tile from your hand on any empty space of your quilt, then take one of the 3 on the table into your hand, and a new one is turned up.
3A group of three or more patches of one colour earns a button of that colour, worth 3 points. Collect buttons in all six colours for a bonus rainbow button.
4Each cat likes two patterns. Arrange a pattern it likes in the shape or number it wants and it hops onto your quilt for the points on its card.
5A design goal asks for a particular mix in the six tiles around it, such as “two each of three colours”. Meeting it by colour or by pattern scores the lower number; meeting both scores the higher.

The game ends when every quilt is full, after exactly 22 turns each. Highest score wins.

You can't max out all three. Decide early which two you are chasing.
Every tile closes off options and it only gets tighter, so deal with the fussiest spots first.
Notice which tile an opponent is waiting for. Taking it is a legitimate move.