Quarto details
- Designer: Blaise Muller
- Artists: Blaise Muller
- Publishers: Accessijeux, Back Alley Games, Broadway Toys LTD, Family Games, Inc., Fundex, G3, Gigamic, Great American Trading Company, Hachette Boardgames UK, Identity Games International B.V., Korea Boardgames co., Ltd., Marbles: The Brain Store, Mitra, Oficina do Aprendiz, Pressman Toy Corp.
- Release Date: 1991
- Player count : 2
- Age range : 8+
- Time range : 20 minutes
- Mechanism(s): Open Drafting, Pattern Building, Pattern Recognition, Square Grid
- More articles about Quarto.
Quarto has a 4×4 board and 16 pieces. Each piece has four dichotomous attributes — color, height, shape, and consistency — so each piece is either black or white, tall or short, square or round, and hollow or solid. The object is to place the fourth piece in a row in which all four pieces have at least one attribute in common. The twist is that your opponent gets to choose the piece you place on the board each turn.
A winner of the 1985 Concours International de Créateurs de Jeux de Société.
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