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2018 Ranked #6,776

The Genius Square

This head-to-head puzzle game has players roll blockers, then fit nine shapes into every remaining grid space first. Thousands of solvable arrangements create a fast spatial race where multiple solutions may exist.

Puzzle

Players

1-2

Play time

5-30 min

Age

6+

Complexity

1/5

Rating

6.76

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.3/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 4.0/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.7/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.0/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

Roll The Dice & Race Your Opponent To Complete The Square! A worthy winner of the HPC Game Of The Year 2018/19 award, this outstanding puzzle game is every bit as clever as its name suggests.

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Roll The Dice & Race Your Opponent To Complete The Square! A worthy winner of the HPC Game Of The Year 2018/19 award, this outstanding puzzle game is every bit as clever as its name suggests. Each player receives their own 6x6 grid and a set of the nine different shapes, plus seven ‘blocker’ pieces. Roll the seven dice together and place a blocker in each of the co-ordinates that appear on the faces. Now race to fill every other space on the grid, before your opponent. As unlikely as it seems, the puzzles really can be solved in each of the 62,208 possible combinations, often with multiple solutions. Sometimes you’ll quickly see a solution... sometimes you’ll be tearing your hair out. Brilliant! —description from the publisher

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Play and group

Players
1–2
Best with
1–2
Play time
5–30 min
Age
6+
Complexity
1.0/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
Salim Berghiche

Publishers

1
The Happy Puzzle Company

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