It may seem overly simple at first and that just means you’ll pick up the game instantly but as you delve deeper you realise there’s an underlying level of strategy. It’s not a dice heavy sword bash, it’s not a deep and strategic cube shuffler, what it is is a light yet cerebral affair. It’s also a quick game, typically about 30 minutes which means that you'll easily be able to fit a couple of games in. Qwirkle is a simple game that relies on a little luck and a little pattern recognition to work well. ![]() Not one, not two but three qwirkles in action! If you manage to get all 6 different coloured tiles of the same shape in a row, or all six of the same colour you score a Qwirkle for double points. ![]() Points are scored based on how many rows you add your tiles to. You can't just point them anywhere no you can’t play two tiles of the same colour or same shape in the same row. Instead of adding letters together to make a word you're placing tiles down in a pattern to try and score the most points. You can feel the scrabble hereditary, but rather than literacy skills Qwirkle uses colours and shapes. While everyone else is playing a triple word scored 'quantize' I'm adding a couple of letters to make 'pet'. It’s a game that relies on the player having a dictionary downloaded into their brain and be able to play the board. So, if any Qwirkle fans are looking to spice things up, go for it! My son calls getting 3 or more Qwirkles in a single turn "Qwirkle Power!" and usually screams this outloud when it happens.I'm rubbish at scrabble, so much so I hate it. The game goes by a lot quicker, maybe twice as fast and we usually play 2 times with these rules. I looked up Qwirkle variants online and found nothing on my rules, so I thought I'd share. I'm thinking maybe switch every now and then. But it's a little more slow, almost tedious now that we are so accustomed to our version of the rules. So for the last week, at home we've been playing the real rules. But our friends said they preferred our version. They told me, I looked up the rules online and Damn! Our favorite game was being played wrong. The real rules, you can only place one line (or, of the same type to be more precise) per turn. Now, a few weeks ago some friends who played a lot with us played with some other friends who had it, but played differently. Quite a few went on to purchase it themselves (sometimes not reading rules themselves as they'd played so much with us). To be frank, everyone loved it and nobody ever questioned our rules. Now, this went ok for two years and we played with friends and family and "taught" them Qwirkle - a lot. It was still quite strategic because you had to choose from either playing everything (and early on just getting 2 or 3 points here and there) or holding on to play them later, and say "I'm good" each turn when you've finished playing what you wanted. But this meant taking up a lot of points quickly and sometimes doing 2-3 or even 4 qwirkles in a single turn. Except I had (accidentally) changed one pretty important rule.Įach turn, you could play as many tiles / add on to as many lines as you wish from your six tiles. But I thought I remembered the rules (same color / shape, always have six tiles, qwirkle doubles to 12, etc) so we started playing with our son (~7) and we had a blast, loved it and played every night for months. I had played Qwirkle years ago, the correct rules, and ended up being passed the game a year or two ago by family, but without the rules.
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