Playing Qwirkle
By Judy Evans
@JudyEv (342145)
Rockingham, Australia
April 10, 2017 4:00am CST
One of the guests who came to Vince's 70th birthday party stayed till this morning. This is the same friend who walked the Bibbulman Track, a 1,000 kms walking trail from Perth to Albany in Western Australia.
In between cleaning up after the celebrations, we played Qwirkle, a board game. Our son bought this for us for Christmas and we've come to really enjoy the game. The tiles all have different shapes painted on them in different colours. The idea of the game is to line up six tiles either of one colour or of one shape. No duplicates are allowed.
Luck plays some part but there are a few strategies that help. It isn't too taxing a game and we seem to be equally adept (or not) at Qwirkle. We won about the same number of games each – which is always a good result. Have you seen this game? I can recommend it.
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31 responses
@teamfreak16 (43418)
• Denver, Colorado
10 Apr 17
I've never heard of it. Sounds kind of fun.
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@allknowing (137811)
• India
10 Apr 17
@JudyEv I know a few board games - chess, snakes and ladders, ludo, scrabble.
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@JudyEv (342145)
• Rockingham, Australia
10 Apr 17
@allknowing These are all fun games. Upwords is another one I enjoy.
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@DaddyEvil (137602)
• United States
10 Apr 17
It is nice you took breaks in cleaning to play a bit, Judy!
I've never heard of this game before.
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@DaddyEvil (137602)
• United States
10 Apr 17
@JudyEv Hmmm.... well, it is sold on Amazon.com.
According to Wiki it was first sold in 2006 by a company named Mindware.
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@JudyEv (342145)
• Rockingham, Australia
10 Apr 17
@DaddyEvil Thanks for that. Why didn't I think of googling it? 
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@FayeHazel (40243)
• United States
10 Apr 17
I've never seen it - it looks fun though! I hope Vince's party was nice, Qirkle and all
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@JudyEv (342145)
• Rockingham, Australia
11 Apr 17
It's pretty simple and easy to pick up. All-round good value in my opinion.
@fishtiger58 (29820)
• Momence, Illinois
10 Apr 17
I haven't seen this game before but it sounds interesting. We like playing Rummikub It's a form of Gin Rummy using tiles much like you picture.
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@fishtiger58 (29820)
• Momence, Illinois
11 Apr 17
@JudyEv Yup kind of is similar.
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@JohnRoberts (109846)
• Los Angeles, California
10 Apr 17
I never heard of Qirkle. Is Herc a good player lol?
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@manasamanu (3746)
• Bangalore, India
10 Apr 17
I haven't heard of this game but something similar to this we play. Good that you had break in your work that re-energizes you back.
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@JudyEv (342145)
• Rockingham, Australia
14 Apr 17
Stopping for a while and doing something else does energize you doesn't it?
@arthurchappell (44998)
• Preston, England
10 Apr 17
not heard of the game before - looks a good one
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@JudyEv (342145)
• Rockingham, Australia
14 Apr 17
It's easy to pick up with just enough challenge to keep you interested.
@JudyEv (342145)
• Rockingham, Australia
10 Apr 17
It is a bit like dominoes. And it is good fun. Some of the board games seem very involved but this is quite simple.
@Morleyhunt (21744)
• Canada
10 Apr 17
I haven't seen the game, but it does look interesting.
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@JudyEv (342145)
• Rockingham, Australia
10 Apr 17
It doesn't take forever to learn so I found it good in that respect.
@dramagirl26 (3259)
• Ringgold, Virginia
10 Apr 17
I've never played Qirkle, but it sounds like a fun and easy game to play.
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