Q•bitz
Q•bitz Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Object of the Game
By the end of the game you need to have collected more cards than anyone else. You get a card by correctly laying out the pattern shown on a task card using your own cubes, and by doing it faster than your opponents.
Setup
Each player takes 16 cubes of one color and a tray (in which the cubes are later laid out).
The Q-bitz cards are placed in the center of the playing area face down. At the start of each round, the cubes are in the tray.
Gameplay
First Round
One of the players (it does not matter who) turns a task card face up, and the game begins! The players must lay out from their cubes the pattern shown on the card. The one who does this first shouts "Cube!" ("Q-bitz!").
The opponents then only have to check whether the player laid out the right pattern. If so, the winner takes the card. If not, the round starts over.
Second Round
A player turns a card face up, after which everyone pours their cubes out in front of them. In this round you again need to assemble the picture from the card using cubes, but now you may use only the cubes that landed with their colored side up. If there are not enough such cubes to assemble the picture, you will have to re-roll the others until they land with the needed side up.
The one who finishes first announces it loudly to the opponents, shouting "Cube!". If the opponents agree that the assembled pattern is correct, the winner takes the card.
If a player rushed, and the pattern assembled from the cubes does not fully repeat the card's task, the round starts over.
Third Round
A timed game. The task card is turned face up for only 10 seconds and then placed back on the table face down. The players must reconstruct the pattern from the card from memory using cubes. Again the winner is the one who first lays out the correct pattern (or a pattern that resembles the picture on the card more closely than the creations of the opponents).
Determining the Winner
The game is played in three sets of three rounds. The winner is the player who has the most cards at the end of the game.
Game Variations
You can play by the rules of just one round and repeat that round as many times as you like (note: the set includes 120 cards).