Quarto Game - Educational Logic Board Games
Quarto is the most awarded game in the world challenges players
to create a line of 4 pieces that share a common characteristic
tall or short, dark or light, round or square, hollow or solid.
 

Logic Games | Strategy Games | Mensa Games | Wooden Games
 

Award Winning
Games
 

Mensa's Top 5 Best
Games - USA
1993
 
Parent's Choice
Award
Top 25 Games
in 25 Years 
USA - 2004
 
Best Bet of the Toy Testing Council
Canada 1994
 
Prix if Excellence des Consommateurs
Consumer's
Toy Award
Canada 1994
 
Games Magazine
Top 100 Games
USA 1993
 
Parent's Choice
Award 
USA 1993
 
Game of the Year 
Finland
 
Spiel Des Jahres
Game of the Year
Germany
1993

 

  
 

QUARTO WOODEN GAME
 

Ages 8 +
2 Players
Playing Time: 10 to 20 minutes
Box size:  11" x 11" x 2.4"
 

Availability: Usually ships within 24 hours 
 
Game Description:
The most awarded game in the world challenges players to create
a line of 4 pieces that share a common characteristic - tall or short,
round or square, light or dark, solid or hollow. Each player in turn
selects one piece and gives it to his opponent who must place it on
an empty square on the board. The winner is the player who, by
positioning a piece, creates a line of 4 pieces having at least one
characteristic in common. But it is your opponent who chooses
which piece you are going to play so watch out! 
Intricate and challenging fun.
 
How To Play - Quarto - Game Rules
 
Contents:
Game Board with 16 squares
16 Different Pieces each with 4 characteristics
light or dark game pieces, round or square game pieces,
tall or short game pieces, solid or hollow game pieces

QUARTO, launched in 1991 by Gigamic, is a strategy game played
with sixteen uniquely different pieces. This is no doubt its major appeal
(twelve international awards to date...), but it also increases the
complexity of mass production. The world-renowned wood-turnshop
in the French Jura region soon found simple solutions to manufacture
the eight round pieces. However, the set of eight square pieces required
long hours of specific tooling and special procedure research. The
objective was to give them the same finish and aspect as the round
pieces, i.e. no sharp edges, rounded grooves, etc., while achieving quick
production to avoid prohibitive costs. A solution, classified "Top Secret",
was finally found. It allows a fairly high output of the square pieces and
gives the finished set a consistency that is obviously part of the game's
attraction.
 
Yet this homogeneity is somewhat relative: there are two differences
between the large round dark hollow piece and its almost twin, the large
square dark hollow piece: their shape... and production time. The first
takes one third of the time to sculpt with the tool's blades. Once they
have been given their final shape, the pieces are stained in successive
baths, dried ad then varnished for hours in 7 cubic-meter barrels
revolving  around a slanted axis. This last phase is essential: it gives the
pawns their unparalleled gloss as they tumble around smoothing each
other for hours... before they can reach our expert hands for exciting
games!

Contents:
1 Wooden Board Game
16 Wooden Pieces
Instructions