Quarto
A deceptively simple strategy game with a unique twist: your opponent chooses which piece you must play.
Rules
Pieces
There are 16 unique pieces, each with 4 binary attributes:
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Tall or Short
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Light or Dark
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Round or Square
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Hollow or Solid
Every combination exists exactly once.
Turns
Each turn has two phases:
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Place the piece your opponent selected for you on any empty cell
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Select a piece from the remaining pool for your opponent to place next
On the very first turn, the first player only selects a piece (nothing to place yet).
Winning
Get four pieces in a row (horizontal, vertical, or diagonal) that share at least one common attribute. For example: four tall pieces, or four round pieces, regardless of their other traits.
Draw
If all 16 pieces are placed with no four-in-a-row sharing an attribute, the game is a draw.