Quixo Classic

by Fundex

Product Features

• Strategic games that can be played by 2 or 4 players in teams
• Includes 25 wood playing pieces, wood game board, fabric bag and instructions
• Recognized as one of the best games in both France and North American
• Age recommended 6 and above
• Fully detailed instructions

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 2.2 x 11 x 11 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0019O199M
• Item model number: 5202
• Our recommended age: 6 years and up
• Manufacturer recommended age: 6 - 15 years
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #159,716 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Quixo is a simple game whose rules can be learned in just thirty seconds. Line up 5 cubes in a row, pushing your lines of cubes horizontally or vertically. This is one of the few strategic games that can be played by 2 or 4 players in teams. It includes 25 wood playing pieces, wood game board, fabric bag and instructions.

Product Description

Quixo is a simple but not simplistic game, whose rules can be learned in just thirty seconds. Anyone can play! Line up 5 cubes in a row, pushing your lines of cubes horizontally or vertically. This is one of the few strategic games that can be played by 2 or 4 players (in teams). Quixo has been recognized as one of the best games in both France and North American. Includes 25 wood playing pieces, wood game board, fabric bag and instructions. For ages 6 and up.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Tic Tac Toe Grows Up, May 13, 2009

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Bernard Dekoven "Major Fun" (Indianapolis) - See all my reviews
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= Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Quixo Classic (Toy)

Quixo Classic is well-made, well-conceived strategic game for 2 or 4 players, which, because it is related to tic-tac-toe, is easy enough for a 6-year-old to play, and, because of its use of the mechanics of sliding block puzzles, is subtle enough to challenge a 66-year-old. Well, 67, actually, but who's counting?

The game consists of 25, 1-inch wooden cubes, bevel edged, lovingly smoothed, warmly wooden cubes, which are packed in a cloth bag, and nestle comfortably in a wooden tray. Four sides of the cubes are left blank. You'll find an X pyrographed on one of the other sides, and, opposite that, similarly pyrographed, an O.

At the beginning of the game, all the cubes are placed on the board, on to any of their 4 blank sides, forming a 5x5 array. Only the cubes on the periphery are available for play.

The object of the game is to be the first player or team to get 5 of your symbols (an X or an 0) in a straight line. To do this, you pick any blank block on the edge of the board, remove it, and then slide the row or column of blocks so as to create a new blank space on one of the edges of the board. You then place the block you selected into that space, positioning it so that your symbol is showing.

The game continues in that manner, players or teams alternating turns, until someone gets 5 of their symbols in the proverbial row. Because each move results in moving part or all of a row or column, blocks are getting continually repositioned - and within there lies the rub, as well as the tickle. You have to see much further ahead, consider a copious complexity of cubic combinations in order to get your symbols (and not your opponent's) to line up in the appropriate array of your aspirations.

Designed by Thierry Chapeau, Quixo Classic is one in a series of similarly well-made games by the French game publisher Gigamic, available in the US from our much-appreciated Fundex. Easy to learn, as fun for kids as adults, well-made, played in 15 minutes or less, often surprising - as they all-too-rarely say amongst Major Fun Game Tasters, this one's a Keeper!

5.0 out of 5 stars adult tic-tac-toe game, January 8, 2011

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jackie - See all my reviews

= Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:4.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: Quixo Classic (Toy)

a great adult version of the classic tic-tac-toe game! It requires thought and concentration and is a great game for anyone to play! four players can play but i prefer the two player version - a little more easier to understand.

5.0 out of 5 stars another subtly deep strategy game from Gigamic, June 21, 2010

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Matt Hargett (Mountain View, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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= Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: Quixo Classic (Toy)

I'm a big fan of Fundex Games Quoridor Classic, which I found to be fun and of great build quality. I was looking for another Gigamic game, and settled on Quixo. It is very different from Quoridor, but just as much fun to play multiple times and develop a strategy. Like Quoridor, the quality of the craftsmanship that goes into the wooden pieces is amazing.

Also like Quoridor (sorry to keep comparing them!), Quixo is almost a totally different game when played with more than 2 players. This helps keep it interesting, and this is one of the reasons both games have such longevity with us.

Well worth the purchase and highly recommended!