Quarto!

Quarto!

Game data
author	Blaise Muller
publishing company	GiGamic , FX Schmid , The Great American Trading Company , Pressman Toy Corporation
Publishing year	1991, 1994, 1998
Art	Board game
Teammates	2
Duration	10 mins
Age	from 8 years
Awards
As d'Or 1992 Mensa Select 1993 Game of the Year 1993: Shortlist

Quarto! is a strategy board game for two players.

history

It was conceived by the Swiss mathematician Blaise Muller (born August 28, 1948 in Peseux , Switzerland). 1985 Müller received for Quarto! the Concours International de Créateurs de Jeux de Société award . The game was released in 1991 by GiGamic , in 1994 by FX Schmid and The Great American Trading Company , in 1998 by Pressman Toy Corporation and in 2006 in Windows Live Messenger .

regulate

On a 4 × 4 playing field, 16 stones are placed, which differ in four properties:

big or small;
light or dark;
square or round;
with or without a hole.

These properties are distributed in such a way that there are no two identical stones. The players take turns choosing a stone that the opponent places on the board. The winner is whoever connects four stones with at least one matching property in a horizontal, vertical or diagonal row.

variants

The game idea can also be implemented with the cards of the game set if the cards with one expression of each property are sorted out.
In Windows Live Messenger from Microsoft , the game can also be played in an entertainment window under the "Games" category.