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Qwirkle is a grid game of colored shape cubes. Lines must share one color or one shape, with no duplicate faces in a line. Score the length of every line you extend. Six in a line is a Qwirkle and scores 12 (6 + 6 bonus). Spiel des Jahres winner in 2011.
Good to know
- The bag contains 108 blocks: six colors, six shapes, three of each combination.
- Susan McKinley Ross designed Qwirkle; it won the 2011 Spiel des Jahres.
- A legal line is all one color with different shapes, or all one shape with different colors, and at most six tiles long.
- Scoring: add the length of each new or extended line. A six-tile line scores 6 plus a 6-point Qwirkle bonus.
- Players always refill to six cubes when the bag allows. Emptying your rack as the bag empties scores a 6-point finish bonus in Tilehaus, matching the published end-game bonus.
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Qwirkle is a grid game of colored shape cubes. Lines must share one color or one shape, with no duplicate faces in a line. Score the length of every line you extend. Six in a line is a Qwirkle and scores 12 (6 + 6 bonus). Spiel des Jahres winner in 2011.
Matte wooden cubes you can rotate in space. Each cube face shows a stamped shape in one saturated color—red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple.
Origin
Qwirkle was designed by Susan McKinley Ross. It is associated with United States. Dating: 2006.
Equipment
108 wooden cubes: 6 colors × 6 shapes × 3 copies
Players: 2–4. Typical duration: 30–45 minutes.
Questions
How do you score a Qwirkle?
A line of six scores 6 for length plus 6 bonus, totaling 12, and may also score a crossing line.