Gryphon Games Pastiche Available at Fred Distribution Online Store

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1. pauline gille Verified Buyer – 5 March 2024

   produit reçu rapidement, correspond à la description. règles du jeu en français, et jeu en anglais, mais ça ne pose pas de problème pour y jouer.
   

2. A. Verified Buyer – 24 March 2024

   In Pastiche players have been commissioned to restore historic art masterpieces. To do this players place hex-shaped paint tiles, collect colors, and turn in sets of colors matching a work of art.

   The best thing about the game is the theme and the components. If you like fine art, you’re probably gonna like this game just because. The components are as nice as they come and worth the price tag.

   Mechanically the strength of the game is the paint tiles which use the three primary colors to combine into a myriad of secondary and tertiary colors. There is also basic set collecting and minimal paint trading.

   The big drawback is in replay value. There are a limited number of paintings to restore, and even the hex paint tile placement feels monotonous after a few plays. It’s best to have someone else buy it and just look through the painting tiles once after your first play.
   

3. jillian Verified Buyer – 23 April 2024

   This game is beautiful…colors and pictures. The paintings in the game are real, so we feel like we are getting a little culture while playing. I knew I would like this game because of the hex mechanism we have grown to love in other games, such as Catan. But the play is completely different and much more fun (and even competitive and cut-throat if you want it to be). Overall, it is a game we get to the table much more often than I ever expected. I only rank it a “like” in durability because it is cardboard (which I am not suggesting should be changed–it works well and is beautiful). I think it is very thick and good quality for a cardboard, but I could see that in rougher hands it could be damaged. The box is the heaviest and strongest I have ever seen in a board game.
   

4. Carmen Pop Verified Buyer – 4 September 2024

   The game loos great and has super production quality. I played it before only once and liked it, played it three times more since I purchased it and totally love it. My husband loves it too.
   

5. BoardGameGeek reviewer EndersGame Verified Buyer – 1 October 2024

   The most recent game in the Gryphon Games Family Games series is Pastiche, which was released early in 2011. Designed by Sean D. MacDonald, it is a wonderfully themed and beautifully produced gateway style game for 2-4 players about mixing colours to re-create famous paintings. It’s gorgeously produced with stunning components, and is an outstanding family game that has proven very accessible, by offering relatively straight forward game-play without sacrificing a high fun factor or meaningful decisions. The game has an intriguing mix of various mechanics, among them being: tile placement, set collection, trading, and hand management. The basic concept is that players must place hex tiles which feature dabs of colours, and depending on how these hexes are placed adjacent to existing hexes, new colours will be created. Through careful hex placement and trading, players must try to acquire the colours needed to complete commissions for famous paintings. Each of these `commission cards’ is a quality and thick tile featuring a well-known artistic work, beautifully reproduced. It looks fantastic, and the mechanics mesh quite well with the theme. Pastiche is intended to be family friendly, and it has the right mix of ingredients to be a successful gateway game, and I can even see potential for it to get nominated for gaming industry awards. We’ve played it over a dozen times, and continue to be impressed, despite it not being a heavy game. Recommended! – EndersGame @ BGG

   

6. rr rr Verified Buyer – 8 March 2025

   Amazing and fun. Provided a good challenge. The thick cardboard images of the paintings are stunning. The wooden easels are a wonderful touch. It’s an amazingly well crafted game. Fun to play and beautiful to look at.
   

7. Cori Del Rossi Verified Buyer – 16 March 2025

   The idea seems like it will be a winner…learn how to mix secondary and tertiary colors and learn about history’s masterpieces and their artists at the same time. The problem is, it’s boring – especially to kids. The card trading mechanic is such that it doesn’t encourage trading between players, and so the key element of player interactivity is lost. And, as much as misguided parents may think it’s important for kids to know the difference between Monet and Manet, the kids just don’t care. What some art industry ‘experts’ tell us are the classics are just boring…kids would prefer Pikachu.