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Qwixx

Or „GRRRR“ due to the result?

Six dice in five colors - there are two white dice - and a scoring sheet showing colored horizontal rows, showing numbers 2 to 12, twice from left to right in red and yellow and twice from right to left in green and blue. The aim of the game is to mark as many numbers as you can in all four colored rows.

You start all rows from the left and can leave gaps, but cannot fill them in later.

You roll all six dice; then you add up the results on both white dice and all players may, but need not, mark this number in any of the four colored rows. The second part of the turn is only done by the active player; you may now, but need not, combine one of the white dice with any of the colored dice by again adding the two results and mark this number in the colored row corresponding to the color of the chosen color die. In case you do not mark a number in either of the two parts of your move, you must mark a “failure roll”. When you would like to lock down a row by marking the last number, you must have marked a minimum of five other numbers in this row. When you mark the last number in the row, you also mark the lock symbol; the row is now closed for all players, the corresponding color die is set aside and not used any more.

When anyone marks his fourth failure roll or locks down the second row, the game ends, and you add the values for the markings in each row, for each failure roll 5 points are deducted from the total!

Qwixx is a fast, simple and not at all simple game, but rather sophisticated, especially due to the two part actions for one roll and the lock-down for a row. Let’s play again, please! I surely can do better!

Players: 2-5

Age: 8+

Time: 15+

Designer: Steffen Benndorf

Art: Oliver Freudenreich

Price: ca. 8 Euro

Publisher: Nürnberger Spielkarten Verlag 2012

Web: www.nsv.de

Genre: Dice game

Users: For families

Version: de

Rules: de

In-game text: no

Comments:

Compact packaging

Simple rules

High replay value

Additional score sheets available

Compares to:

All other dice game with prerequisite results

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 3

Tactic (turquoise): 1

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 0

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0