Cover art for Qubic

Qubic

1947 · BGG
Avg rating
5.30
Bayes rating
5.48
Weight
1.58 (Light)
Players
2-6
Playtime
15 min
Ratings count
225

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Description

Qubic, which has been released multiple times by multiple publishers under various names and credited to various designers, is a placement game played on the 64 positions in a 3D board with four levels and a four-by-four grid on each level. The object is to get four in a row, whether on one level or between all four levels, straight or diagonal. It is essentially a Tic-Tac-Toe game in a 4x4x4 cube.

The cube needs to be emptied before start. Each player choose a color of their pieces and take turn to place their pieces in vacant positions, one piece at a time. The player wins who first gets four in a row of his own pieces - either horizontal, vertical or diagonal. A player cannot remove or replace pieces that have already been placed. If all positions are occupied without anyone having four in a row, then the game is called a tie.

A rule that makes it less advantageous to begin is to prohibit the first player from placing his first piece in either a corner position or in one of the eight center positions.

Similar to:

 3D Tic Tac Toe - which is played on 3x3x3 grid
 4tec - which is the same game on the 4x4x4 grid also
 Flix - which uses dice to control placement of men on 4x4x4 grid 
 Four Letter Words - played on 4x4x4 grid, though with words
 Q4 - which also played on 4x4x4 grid but with only 12 markers
 Tetrano - which is the same game represented on a 4x4 board.
 Qubic - which has a version for 3 players also
 Score Four - 4x4 grid of pegs that are filled from the bottom up
 Dimensions (1970), Hi!Noon: Das Duell (2009), Tic Tac Turn (2011), and X: Die 4. Dimension - the 4 individual horizontal board layers (4x4 each) of the 4x4x4 grid can turn
 3D5 - which is played on a 5x5x5 grid




Mechanics

Paper-and-Pencil Pattern Building

Themes

None recorded

Publishers

(Public Domain) (Unknown) 3M Clipper Crestline Manufacturing Company DBC Company Duplicon Company Inc Games & Gadgets Ent. Gangler-Gentry Co. Invicta Games Miro Company Nienstaedt & Co., Ltd., Hong Kong Parker Brothers Qubic Games Score-Four Ltd. Selchow & Righter Skor-Mor Spielkiste Sunshine Initiative Tedco, Inc Tri-ang Tviksta Spel Vic-Toy

Designers

Don Cornish Howard Nelson Moore Rolfe L. Pottberg