Quinto
Fascinating Game of Numbers
3M Company - 1968
2-4 Players
Quinto is almost exactly like Scrabble except using numbers instead of letters. Like Scrabble the players take turns placing tiles on a board. Except here, instead of trying to spell words, they are trying to play a sequence of tiles such that the total of the numbers on the tiles is a multiple of five. For example; 4-1-6-4 is valid, 4-1-6-6 is not.
Each player starts with five tiles. They then take turns placing tiles on the board in such a way that the tiles a) connect to tiles already on the board and b) total up to a multiple of five. Sequences of tiles can be no more than five tiles in length. The player's score for a tile sequence is the total of the tiles in the sequence. When a player has played tiles they draw new tiles to fill the total in their hand back up to five. Play continues until no more tiles can be played legally at which point the player with the highest total wins.
This is an interesting variant but one that would probably get old fairly quickly. In Scrabble there are always new words to spell while here there is just that continual adding up to a multiple of five. There are variants in the game for play to multiples of other numbers (like seven) but they don't really do anything to enhance play, they just change it. Overall this is not one of the better games in the lineup.
6 comments on Quinto:
any idea where i can get a copy of quinto--used to have it years ago and loved it
jerryandkatee@peoplepc.com
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where can i purchase this game? NETTER,2@NETZERO.COM
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ebay has this game
Have always loved this game ... I play Bridge, Pinochle and Literati on line at Yahoo. Is there anywhere to play Quinto on line????