Calico

You sew a quilt from hexagonal fabric patches, each with a colour and a pattern, on a board carrying three design goals of your own. When every space is filled you score buttons for colour groups, cats that settle on your quilt, and how closely you matched the goal tiles. A turn is one patch from your hand of two placed on your board, then one taken from the display to refill. Three adjacent patches of one colour earn a button. Each cat wants a particular pattern in a particular shape, and building it brings that cat onto your quilt for points. It is heavier than it looks; the last five placements can take a while. It plays very well at two, has a proper solo mode, and suits a quiet evening more than a loud party. If Azul felt too simple, try this next.