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Logix

Thinking with one rule only

Logic games, riddles, logic puzzles, puzzles, however you want to call them, this genre of games is experiencing an incredible boom at the moment – and IQ Spiele, too, has taken part in the boom and has published a game in this genre, Logix.

The basic idea of this game is taken from Sudoku; but there is only a grid of 3x3 squares and therefore only nine squares all in all, and you do not use numbers, but use three different shapes – moon, star and and a heart, if you want to call them that. Each of those shapes is present in three colors, in red, blue and yellow.

On 70 objective or task cards some of those shapes are pre-positioned. You choose one of those cards, place the shapes already depicted there and must then place the remaining shapes into the grid so that at the end in each row and each column each shape and each color is only present once. This is the only rule! In the higher levels of the seven levels of difficulty restricting conditions are added in relation to rows or columns, for instance: No blue shape may be in this row or the blue star must be in the first row, or there must be a heart of any color in this column or there must be a yellow shape of your choice in this column.

This looks to be rather simple when only working with nine squares, but is not when you adhere to all pre-set conditions and the basic rules. In any case, Logix offers an attractive introduction into the genre of logic puzzles. The rising levels of difficulty furthermore disclose and teach correlations, regularities and thinking patters, that can be useful in other contexts, too.

Players: 1

Age: 7+

Time: variable

Designer: Linda Wächter

Artist: not named

Price: ca. 15 Euro

Publisher: IQ-Spiele 2012

Web: www.iq-spiele.de

Genre: Logical placement game

Users: For families

Special: 1 player

Version: multi

Rules: de en

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Comments:

Simple basic rules

Seemingly simple solutions due to 9 squares only

Seven levels of difficulty

Good training for logic and thinking

Compares to:

Sudoko and other logic puzzles for one player

Other editions:

Currently none

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