Board games
Qubic
3M, 1947
Qubic is a board game published by 3M in 1947. It is played with 2 to 6 players, from age 10 and in about 15 minutes.
- players
- 2–6
- minutes
- 15
- years
- 10+
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The box
- Publishers
- 3M, Clipper, Crestline Manufacturing Company, DBC Company, Duplicon Company Inc, Games & Gadgets Ent.
- Designers
- Don Cornish, Howard Nelson Moore, Rolfe L. Pottberg, George M. Fox
- Year of release
- 1947
- Also known as
- 3D tic-tac-toe · 3 Dimensional Tic Tac Toe · 3-D Game Board · Checkline
About the game
3D tic-tac-toe, also known by the trade name Qubic, is an abstract strategy board game, generally for two players. It is similar in concept to traditional tic-tac-toe but is played in a cubical array of cells, usually 4×4×4 (64 cells). Players take turns placing their markers in blank cells in the array. The first player to achieve four of their own markers in a row wins. The winning row can be horizontal, vertical, or diagonal on a single board as in regular tic-tac-toe, or vertically in a column, or a diagonal line through four boards.
As with traditional tic-tac-toe, several commercial sets of apparatus have been sold for the game, and it may also be played with pencil and paper with a hand-drawn board.
The game has been analyzed mathematically and a first-player-win strategy was developed and published. However, the strategy is too complicated for most human players to memorize and apply.More from 3M
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