Whether to forfeit a turn to draw new tiles can be a tough choice too. Or you can gamble and create many opportunities for making Qwirkles. You can play to deny the long words by making some positions unplayable. Easy to teach, and quick to play, but there are some interesting decisions and there is a bit more strategy than meets the eye. I found it tense that time was running out and I needed to draw those few specific tiles to let me do a few more big scorings. Since all tiles will be drawn from the bag, as the game nears completion, it can slow down because the players have more and more information to calculate probabilities and to plan moves. Do you want to set up an opportunity for yourself at the risk of letting your opponent grab it before you can? The longer a word is, the easier it is to extend it enough to make a Qwirkle. There is brinkmanship in making long words. You may even have to risk helping your opponent make a Qwirkle. It is not easy to keep two or more options open, and often you need to play some tiles that you could have used to make a Qwirkle. This takes up space in your hand of only six tiles.
You need to keep some tiles and wait for some more specific ones that allow you to make the Qwirkle. It is always good to make a Qwirkle, and it is usually not easy to do so. I found that I often had to make tough decisions. There's a 50% chance that a specific tile will be drawn by you. The game may be a bit more strategic with 2-players, because it is easier to calculate. However as I played I found myself counting tiles, estimating probabilities and seriously strategising. The rules are immediately familiar, because of the Scrabble-like mechanism. It isn't the type of game that I actively seek out to play, but since I had the opportunity to try it at Carcasean (Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia), I gave it a go. Qwirkle won the prestigious Spiel des Jahres. Horizontal blue word with all six shapes, horizontal orange word with all six shapes, vertical circles word with all six colours, and vertical stars word with all six colours. On your turn instead of playing tile(s) to make a new word, you can forfeit your turn and exchange any number of tiles with the bag. You play until the tiles run out, and one player runs out of tiles to play. There are six shapes and six colours in the game, making 36 combinations and each specific combination appears on three tiles. If you make a Qwirkle - a word with 6 tiles, which is the longest word possible - you score double, i.e. You score for each word you make on your turn, 1pt per tile in each word. You create "words" in the playing area, where the tiles in a word must have the same shape of different colours, or the same colour of different shapes. The player with the highest score is the winner of the game.Qwirkle can be described as Scrabble using shapes and colours instead of letters. The first player who uses all of his cubes ends the game and gets a 6 points bonus.
When there are no more cubes left, the play continues as before but players don't replenish their decks. Lines of more than 6 cubes are not allowed. You score 6 bonus points whenever you complete a line of 6 cube, which is called a Qwirkle. When a cube is part of two different lines, it will score 2 points. When you create a line, you score one point for each cube in that line (including the cubes that already existed on the grid). Two or more cubes that touch, create a line and this line is in either one shape or one color.Ĭubes that are added to a line must share the same attribute as the cubes that were already in that line.
The cubes must connect the grid orthogonally, so diagonal connections are forbidden. Rolling can never change the color of your cubes. Tutorial Video Rolling CubesĮach time you re-roll, you have the potential to change the shapes of your cubes. Not all added cubes have to touch each other.ĭraw new cubes to bring your deck up to six. Remember that the cubes must share a single attribute (color or shape) and form a line with existing cubes. On your turn you can do one of the 4 actions:Ĭhoose which cubes to re-roll and roll them.Īdd cubes to the grid. If the player can't place more than one cube, he must re-roll all his cubes until he is able to do it. On his first turn (after rolling), the first player is required to place the maximum cubes he can. You need a paper and pencil to keep the score.Įach player draws 6 cubes and rolls them to create their deck.Įveryone plays open-handed with all of their cubes showing at all times. Build lines of color and shape strategically in order to score the most points.
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