Splinter Quad 2024

Splinter Quad is an abstract strategy game for four players, and a variant of the two-player game of Splinter. The object of the game is to eliminate your opponents’ pieces by sliding, pushing and fracturing the battlefield. The last player with at least one square, one circle and one cross on the board wins the game.

Each player starts the game with 9 pieces, grouped into 3 different shapes – 2 squares, 2 crosses and 5 circles. Play begins with the pieces arranged in a checkerboard pattern at the center of the board.

Assign a color to each player and decide who goes first. Then continue playing, with all players alternating turns. On your turn, you may slide any of your pieces one square in any direction (orthogonally or diagonally), pushing along any pieces that lie in the way.

If a piece is pushed off the edge, it is removed from the board.

In addition, if the pieces are splintered into two or more disconnected groups (so that no piece of either group shares a side or a corner with any piece of the other group), the largest group remains on the board and all other groups are removed. If a splinter results in two groups of equal size, the player who caused the splinter decides which group is removed.

To remain in the game, a player must have at least one square, one cross and one circle on the board. If a player ceases to satisfy this condition, that player is eliminated from the game, and that player’s pieces are removed from the board. The last player with at lease on square, one cross and one circle on the board wins the game.

Click here for official rules and diagrams: https://splinterboardgame.blogspot.com/2024/03/splinter-quad-object-of-game-knock-out.html

—description from the publisher