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Qwirkle Cards

Form a Qwirkle and take the cards!

Based on the tile placement game of the same name you use, in this variant, cards showing the familiar symbols; each symbol is present in the game three times in each of the six colors. All cards are shuffled and you are dealt nine cards.

You place color groups or symbol groups and try to form Qwirkle made up from six different symbols of the same color or the same symbol in six different colors. The active player plays a minimum of three cards to begin a new row, or at least one card to add it to a row. Thus, a row always consists of a minimum of three cards, and the same card can never be twice in the same row.

You can also play only one card from your hand and take the rest of the necessary cards from rows on the table to begin a new row. In one turn you can add cards to several rows and can also dissolve rows and re-arrange them, the only condition for this is that at the end of the re-arrangement each row must hold a minimum of three cards. If you cannot place a card at all, you draw - after a check of your cards by the other players - nine new cards.

If you form a Qwirkle, you take the six cards of the Qwirkle and set them aside. You can at any time check each of those stacks, also those with other players, for checking which cards are already out of play. When the last card is drawn, you win at the end of the round with most Qwirkle.

A very nice version of the basic game idea, the re-arranging of the rows and the removing of cards from rows to start new ones, offers more options, but also moves the game even more in the vicinity of Rummy, which of course does not distract all from the fun you can have with the game.

Players: 2-4

Age: 8+

Time: 30+

Designer: Susan McKinley Ross

Artist: not named

Price: ca. 8 Euro

Publisher: Schmidt Spiele 2015

Web: www.schmidtspiele.de

Genre: Set collecting

Users: For families

Version: multi

Rules: de fr it

In-game text: no

Comments:

Nice version

More similar to Rummy due to re-arranging and taking out of cards

Flair of Qwirkle remains

Compares to:

All editions of Qwirkle, Rummy

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0