In patchwork two players compete to build the most aesthetic and high scoring patchwork quilt on a personal 9x9 game board to start play lay out all of the patches at random in a circle and place a marker directly counter clockwise of the 2 1 patch each player takes five buttons mdash the currencypoints in the game mdash and someone is chosen as the start player on a turn a player either purchases one of the three patches standing clockwise of the spool or passes to purchase a patch you pa