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Qwirkle

SIx Blocks in a row

The game sounds and is basically simple – you form and extend rows of blocks which show either the some color or the same symbol to score the highest total of points. 108 blocks show six different symbols in six colors, each individual block is present threefold. To start the game each player draws 6 blocks from the bag, if you have the most correlations in either symbol or color you place the starting-row. In your turn you can lay out or add one or more blocks in rows and refill your hand or exchange 1-6 blocks for new ones.

2 or more blocks next to each other form a row, either with blocks showing the same symbol or the same color. Mixtures are not allowed, in rows of the same color each symbol may only occur once, in rows of the same symbol each color is only allowed once. That means, each row has a maximum length of 6 blocks.

Newly placed blocks must be in contact with blocks already placed, but not necessarily with each other, thus you can add blocks at the beginning and the end of a row, but only into one row in each turn. If you cannot place a block you must exchance blocks. At the end of your turn your score is noted, you score 1 point for each block in the row you have formed or extended, you can score twice for a block if the block belongs to two rows. If you complete a row of 6 blocks, this is a Qwirkle and you score 6 bonus points.

Qwirkle has been famous already for a long time in the US, now it has arrived in Europa, an elegant little placement game, where you have to be careful where to place your blocks to your own advantage so as not to lay to much groundwork for the next player.

Spieler         : 2-4

Alter            : ages 6 and up

Dauer           : approx. 30 min

Autor           : Susan McKinley Ross

Grafik          : not stated

Titel englisch          : identical

Preis            : ca. 30,00 Euro

Verlag          : Schmidt Spiele 2010

                     www.schmidtspiele.de        

Genre                    : Placement game with pattern formation

Zielgruppe             : For families

Mechanismen         : Place blocks in rows for points

Kommentar:

Elegant wooden blocks

Simple rules

Purely abstract game

Standard mechanisms

Vergleichbar:

All games with group formations using colors or symbols

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