Quarto is a two-player abstract strategy board game invented by the Swiss mathematician Blaise Muller and published by Gigamic beginning in 1991. It is played on a four by four board with sixteen distinct pieces that vary along four attributes: height, color, shape and whether the top is flat or hollow. Rather than each player owning a set of pieces, the players take turns choosing a piece from the shared pool and handing it to their opponent to place on the board, an arrangement that makes Quarto an impartial game rather than a partisan one. A player wins by creating a row, column or diagonal of four pieces that all share at least one attribute, and in an optional variant a two by two square of matching pieces also counts, giving the simple ruleset unusually deep strategic traps for a game of its size.
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Abstract strategy game, impartial game
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Two players
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Year Released: 1991
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