Qwirkle

R499.00

An addictive strategy game in the tradition of Sequence, Scrabble, and Othello, the Qwirkle Board Game has a simple, straightforward premise: match tiles and win points. But the real joy of the game lies in plotting and scheming your way to victory. Qwirkle is destined to be a family game night favorite.

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Qwirkle

A typical game of Qwirkle lasts about 45 minutes, longer when you’re first learning how to play, and players will likely catch on to the rules in no time at all. The game can be set up anywhere, although a large tabletop is best to accommodate the generous number of tiles.

The only other thing you’ll need is a pencil and paper to keep track of everyone’s point count.

Each tile has an illustration on the back (circle, eight-point star, four-point star, square, clover, or diamond). Each of these symbols appears in six different colors (red, yellow, orange, green, blue, and purple). In total, the game has three tiles each of the 36 possible color-symbol combinations.

As in Scrabble, the game starts with players drawing their own “hand” of six tiles. The player with the most tiles that share something in common (color or symbol) plays their pieces and wins points. And so it goes until the pieces make up a giant grid.

One rule adults will likely need to reiterate to little ones is that duplicate tiles don’t count. For instance, if someone has three diamonds, and two of them are green, they can only count one of those diamonds for points.

The game ends when the draw bag is depleted and one player plays all of his remaining blocks, earning a six point bonus. The player with the high score wins.