Quarto
Quarto has a 4×4 board and 16 pieces. Each piece has four dichotomous attributes — color, height, shape, and consistency — so each piece is either black or white, tall or short, square or round, and hollow or solid. The object is to place the fourth piece in a row in which all four pieces have at least one attribute in common. The twist is that your opponent gets to choose the piece you place on the board each turn.
Number of players: 2
Game duration: 4 mn
Complexity: 1 / 5
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Rules summary
Components
- Board with a 4×4 grid.
- 16 pieces with four characteristics each:
- Light or dark;
- Tall or short;
- Circular or square; and
- Solid or hollow.
- Each possible combination of characteristics appears exactly once.
- e.g. light & tall & circular & solid.
- e.g. dark & short & square & hollow.
Game Play
- The opponent selects an unplayed piece.
- The player places the selected piece on an empty space.
Game End
- The winner is the player who forms a line of four pieces that all share a characteristic.
- i.e. not the opponent who selected the final piece.
- e.g. all light.
- e.g. all short.
Advanced variant
- A 2×2 square of four pieces that all share a characteristic also wins.
