Item-no.: 23617

Quadrio

A funny game of skill with different levels of difficulty. The brightly coloured cubes can also be used as building bricks in creative play.

Age: 4-99

Number of players: 2 or 4

Contents: 36 plastic cubes in green, yellow, red, and blue, 4 lifters (suction lifters), 1 wooden dice

Game idea: Dialogue form, Weimar

This is how the “suction lifter” works:

Hold it with three fingers (as illustrated). Using your thumb, press the suction lifter down onto the cube. This causes air to escape from the rubber suction cup and a vacuum arises. It is now possible to lift and move the cube. If you take your thumb off the ball, air will flow through the little pipe into the rubber suction cup and equalise the negative pressure again, thereby releasing the cube.

Game preparation:

All cubes are spread out randomly on the board and each player is given a suction lifter in the colour of his choice. The colour of the ball on the lifter decides which colour of cube you have to collect.

Version 1:

for younger players who cannot count yet:

-Use the suction lifter to take the cubes in your colour off the board and place them down in front of you.

-Then put the cubes in your colour onto the board again into the individual cases (either put the individual colours together or alternate them with other colours to form patterns).

- Stack the cubes in your own colour on the board or off the board to form 3 towers, each made of 3 cubes

-Speed: the first to build a tower with 6 or 9 cubes in his own colour is the winner. (The number of cubes can be decided before the game depending on the child’s age)

Either all players play at the same time or they take turns, one after another.

Version 2:

The youngest player throws the dice and, using the suction lifter, he may move any cube of his colour as many fields as the number that appeared on the dice. The cube can be moved horizontally or vertically but with this move he must be able to set down the cube on another of his colour.

If he cannot land directly on his own cube colour by moving according to the number thrown on the dice, he can also set the cube down on a suitable empty field. If this is not possible either, he has to miss a turn and it is the next player’s go. The winner is the first to be able to build 3 towers, each with 3 cubes.

Version 3:

With skill, attention and a bit of luck, the aim here is to jump over and collect as many cubes as possible. With the aid of the suction lifter, the youngest player may take any cube from the board. The next player may now jump over another cube with a cube in his own colour if there is an empty space behind that cube. He then collects the cube he has jumped over.

Double jumps are allowed if there is a vacant space between the cubes. If the player cannot jump, he must miss a turn.

If a player drops the cube from the suction lifter, the cube jumped over cannot be taken. The end of the game is if there is only one cube per colour left or if none of the players is able to jump.

The winner is the player who has collected the most cubes.

Version 4:

Strategy game: 3 in a row (for children of 6 years and over)

All cubes are taken from the board and each child is given the cubes in the colour matching that on the suction lifter. The cubes are now placed in turn and an attempt must be made to get three cubes in one’s own colour in one row. This can be done crosswise, lengthwise or also diagonally. The other players naturally try to prevent this. The player who does manage to place 3 cubes of his colour in a row is the winner.