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Lots of fun, challenging, but lots of little pieces to be lost. As long as you can keep track of the many small pieces (watch out for the little ones (the pieces are small with sharp points -- would really hurt and probably damage a lot if swallowed). The game is such that it needs all of the pieces to be what it was intended to be.
Neither one of us could ever win it. I don't think we'll ever play it again. I wish we hadn't wasted our money on it. My teenage son and I love building puzzles and playing strategy games, such as classic games like chess, backgammon, or checkers, to more recently created games such as Blokus and Cathedral. This game will definitely end up donated.
But this game made no sense. Each game ended in a tie. The playing pieces were strangely shaped, and hard to visualize because they didn't exactly fit on the board where you expected them to. After an hour or so, we gave up.
It's helped my son look at spatial relationships better, because he has to choose a piece that fits, so it even has some educational value beyond just what the regular taking turns- or making a puzzle-type games have. We've really enjoyed playing this game--my nephews joined us for Christmas, and they had fun, too. The older boy, who's 7 1/2, wanted to keep going to see if he could fit all the pieces in like a puzzle, after we'd finished playing for points. I didn't know anything about this game when I bought it, just read the reviews, and I'm glad we have it now. The only fault I have with it is playing to 40 points--it seems like the game is over so quickly that way.
We were disappointed in the CirKis game we purchased. We do enjoy Qwirkle very much and highly recommend it. We have played it twice since purchasing it in December and haven't been interested in trying it again.
My grandaughters say this game is a lot of fun. We are always looking for games which increase their abilities while having fun. It requires them to plan ahead when they are playing allowing them to develop reasoning skills without knowing it.
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