Dice games
Qwixx
Cross off as many boxes as possible on four coloured rows, without piling up penalties.
- players
- 2–5
- minutes
- 15
You’ll need the game box. Marquoir sums up the rules and keeps score.
Setup
- Six dice: two white and four coloured. One score sheet per player.
- Each sheet has four rows: red and yellow from 2 to 12, green and blue from 12 to 2.
How to play
- The active player rolls all six dice. Everyone may cross off the sum of the two white dice, in the row of their choice.
- Then the active player alone may cross off the sum of one white die and one coloured die, in the row of that colour.
- You always cross off from left to right: skipped boxes are lost for good.
- An active player who crosses off nothing takes a penalty.
- The last box of a row — the 12 or the 2 — can only be crossed off with at least five crosses already in that row. It then locks the row for everyone.
Scoring
- A row with n crosses scores n × (n + 1) / 2 points: one cross 1, two crosses 3, five crosses 15, twelve crosses 78.
- Locking a row adds one extra cross to its count.
- Each penalty costs five points, subtracted from the total.
End of the game
- The game ends as soon as a player takes their fourth penalty, or two rows are locked.
- Add up the four rows, then subtract the penalties.
House rules and pitfalls
- Locking a row requires crossing off its last box, which takes at least five crosses already in place.
- A locked row is locked for everyone: the first to get there deprives the others of their remaining boxes.
Frequently asked questions
How is the score calculated in Qwixx?
Per row, based on the number of crosses: one cross is worth 1 point, two are worth 3, three 6, four 10, and so on according to the formula n × (n + 1) / 2. Then subtract five points per penalty.
The box
- Released
- 2012
- Age
- Ages 8+
- Designer
- Steffen Benndorf
- Artwork
- Oliver Freudenreich, Sandra Freudenreich, Tom McKendrick
- Publisher
- Nürnberger-Spielkarten-Verlag
- Mechanics
- LotoLancer de désPapier-crayonStop ou encore
- Contents
- 6 dés : 2 blancs et 4 de couleur
- 1 bloc de score
- Expansions
- Qwixx Le grand Mix!
- Qwixx: Big Points · 2021
- Qwixx: Connected · 2019
- Qwixx: Bonus · 2020
- Qwixx: Characters
Rules on video
Videos in French, hosted on YouTube.
Where to find it
Specialist French shops. Marquoir earns nothing from these links.