Quarto (board game)
Quarto board at start of game
Quarto is a board game for two players invented by Swiss mathematician Blaise Müller in 1991.[1][2]
It is played on a 4×4 board. There are 16 unique pieces, each of which is either:
- tall or short;
- red or blue (or a different pair of colors, e.g. light- or dark-stained wood);
- square or circular; and
- hollow-top or solid-top.
Players take turns choosing a piece which the other player must then place on the board. A player wins by placing a piece on the board which forms a horizontal, vertical, or diagonal row of four pieces, all of which have a common attribute (all short, all circular, etc.). A variant rule included in many editions gives a second way to win by placing four matching pieces in a 2x2 square.
Quarto is distinctive in that there is only one set of common pieces, rather than a set for one player and a different set for the other. It is therefore an impartial game.
References
- ↑ "Quarto - Game rules". Ludoteka. Retrieved 6 August 2014.
- ↑ "Quarto! Board Game". Board Game Geek. Retrieved 6 August 2014.
External links
- : Quarto game against the computer
- Quarto: Online Multiplayer Quarto Game
- Quarto: Quarto and other board games
- Quarto at BoardGameGeek
- Quarto at DMOZ
- 414298141056 Quarto Draws Suffice! at MathPages
- Quarto!: Desktop version made in Java.
- Lineo': Windows and Linux version of Quarto with network play and 3D look
- Quarto: Quarto and other Brain Fitness Games
- Quarto (strategy), Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 10 October 2000, archived from the original on 12 October 2004, retrieved 12 July 2009