Quarto!

Ramiro Garrido Morales

Contains ads

About this game

Available in English and Spanish. Quarto is a turn-based strategy game for two, created by the Swiss mathematician Blaise Muller. The objective of the game is to align 4 pieces (either horizontally, vertically or diagonally) on a 4x4 board. Each game piece has 4 different characteristics: height (tall or short), color (dark or light), mass (solid or hollow) and shape (square or circle). Additionally, take into account that our opponent chooses our game piece to play.

Ratings and reviews

Took a while to figure out how to change the language, almost uninstalled thinking it couldn't be done. Pop-up for choosing opponent's piece blocks much of the board, pretty ridiculous considering the importance of seeing the board during this step. And ads, while understandable, are annoying (loud) & fairly frequent, & can't even pay to remove them. With some minor improvements & a pay option, could be great.

The aim of Blaise Müller's original & deceptively simple game is to get a line of 4 pieces (horiz/vert/diag) on a 4×4 board that share 1 property. There are 16 pieces, 1 of each permutation of black/white, hollow/solid, tall/short & round/square, so, eg, a line of 4 tall. Players choose a piece for their opponent to play. One quibble: when doing so, the choice of available pieces obscures the board, which makes choosing the best harder. Otherwise fine, especially if you know & like the game.

Too many ads. I would pay to have none. This is a strategy game that is the most similar available game on the Google Play store but it's quality is low. You can get to English in the settings — Spanish is default.