Qwirkle is an amazingly fun game to be played with those non-gamers in the family. My mom loves scrabble and my dad enjoys dominos... but don't like to learn new games especially thematic games. I told them this was dominos and scrabble without the pips or letters. they were unsure but tried and truly enjoyed playing it. They now want me to bring it out to play whenever we get together. We enjoy seeing who gets the title of Qwirkle-Killer after each game! plus, just like my mom with Scrabble - I still want to sit on her left when playing Qwirkle also... hehehe.

6 of each colour, 6 of each shape is 36.. According to Tom, there's 4 of each tile, but there's 108 total tiles. 36 x 4 is not 108. There's 3 of each tile, Tom.

Travel Qwirkle is the way to go. Cheaper, need a smaller table, has a nice bag.

Fantastic tutorial :) Thanks!

Great review, and a great game. A simple game that I can play with my kids, with a surprising amount of strategy to play with adults. And it's fun either way.

Best judgement shot to date! =)

This game is extremely similar to Ingenious. I don't know which one The Dice Tower recommends (because you really don't need both), but I prefer Ingenious. The hexagonal pieces/board and scoring difference being the main reasons I think it's better. Ingenious may be a tad bit of a 'heavier' game than Qwirkle, but is still a solid family-abstract game that plays well with 2-4 players.

Played this game on easter once my sister called me an idiot because I didn't do the optimal play. I'm not sure I've played it since then.

LMAO...I read that as Twerkle. Now THAT'd be a game theme!

Disappointed that they didn't solve the glossy green/blue/purple confusion problems.

Dice tower should have third seal for popular classic games, like Catan, Ticket to ride, Carcassonne, Scrabble or Qwirkle.

lol i just found this game last week new in shrink at a goodwill for $2!

Huh, looks like a more colorfull and easier version of rummy :)

Blue moons, Yellow Stars, Purple Horseshoes... Do we get a Leprechaun at the end of the game?

Qwirkle is a good, fun game. It's not yet in my collection, but I am surprisingly good at it.

I love using phrases like "I;m going to Qwirkle" or "I just Qwirkled a little" something about that sounds inappropriate.

Man, Tom hates Scrabble with a passion. Some people have studied Qwirkle strategies and play it more seriously than others. How is that different from someone who has studied words and plays Scrabble more seriously? They are both esoteric pursuits geared to winning a particular game. I have never heard Tom bring up Scrabble without bashing it and mentioning 'two-letter' words. He apparently has been badly beaten in Scrabble by someone who knows more two-letter words than him. By the way, I'm one of those Scrabble people. It's not that hard to remember that AA, XI, XU, QI and a few others are valid but odd words.