The scoring rewards multiple checks in the same row, but that is not immediately obvious to new players, and I am loathe to give out strategy advice on the first game. What I Didn’t: Sometimes the decisions are a little too obvious. Here, everyone gets a number to use or not, so there is a decision on top of just hoping something you want gets rolled. It feels a little more organic to me than Bohnanza: das Wurfelspiel, another light dice game that has you playing off of other’s rolls. I also appreciate the method by which all the players are interested in every player’s roll. Luck is mitigated by the choice, and the tedium of watching other players reroll dice is removed. What I Liked: One roll no rerolls! Rolling several dice and choosing among them is something I now look for in dice games. Score your rows based on the number of checkboxes in each row. Game ends when too many penalties are taken, or when 2 rows are locked out by a player checking off the rightmost box in that row. Other players are allowed to check off boxes based only on your white dice total. If you can’t/won’t check off a box on your turn, take a penalty. You can only check off boxes going left to right. The boxes come in the 4 matching colors, 2 colors are ascending, 2 are descending. Check off boxes on your personal sheet, matching the total of the white dice and/or one white die and one colored die. The Rundown: Roll 6 dice, 2 white and one each of 4 colors. Game You Know That It Most Resembles: Choice (Sackson) The Game: Qwixx by Nurnberger Spielkarten
Not one to turn down an opportunity to collect a self-perceived “set” of games, I tracked them all down, and now present them for review: Benndorf has a particular set of skills, and his medium of choice is the light, dice game.
Intrigued enough to track down a copy, I order one from, and I end up pleasantly surprised. Then, SdJ nominations get announced and Qwixx was on the shortlist. I then read the rules, and thought not much about it. Leading up to the 2013 SdJ announcement, I had heard some rumblings of a little dice game to come out at the Nurnberg Fair, called Qwixx. Even two times is enough of a difference to pique my interest. I really enjoy dice games, especially those that aren’t the standard “roll 3 times”.