Qwirkle Board Game | I love euro- german-style games. This one has some strategy, but not a lot of it. That's a mixed blessing. If you're a fan of Carcassonne, Catan, etc., you'll find this game lacks enough strategy. If you typically play American style board games (Monopoly, Scrabble, Scene It, Trivial Pursuit, etc.), you'll find the introduction of more strategy refreshing without being bogged down in a myriad of scoring rules and options.

This game "Qwirkle Board Game" is quickly becoming a family favorite because there's enough familiarity and strategy for everyone to enjoy. It's simply a well-rounded game.

Three small gripes though on the quality.
1) The pieces aren't uniformly sized. The variation is slight, but it's there. Why?
2) The printing isn't perfectly centered on the tiles (probably related to the way they were cut)
3) Red & Orange are too difficult to differentiate in anything but optimal lighting conditions.

These aren't enough to keep us from enjoying the Qwirkle Board Game. For the colors, I compensate by laying my tiles face-down, and viewing them by cupping 3 in each hand. Everyone else I see stands them up like Scrabble tiles. Holding them my way makes it easy for you to tilt them to catch the light right and simultaneously protects your hand from being viewed like my family "inadvertently" tends to do.  Read more →