Quirks (board game)

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Quirks is a 1980 board game published by Eon Products.

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Gameplay

The game components are a 108 cards printed on thin cardstock representing characteristics of animals and plants, and a game board, also printed on thin cardstock. [1] The object of the game is to build three viable organisms called "quirks" from two or three of the cards. [2]

Reception

In the February 1981 edition of The Space Gamer (No. 36), Forrest Johnson liked Quirks, saying, "This is a good family game." [2]

Ian Livingston reviewed Quirks for White Dwarf #24, giving it an overall rating of 9 out of 10, and stated that "All in all it is totally absurd but great fun and Eon Products must be congratulated for coming up with another ace." [3]

In the May 1981 edition of Ares (Issue 8), Eric Goldberg found the most serious flaw in the game was an ever-diminishing replay value as players either consciously or subconsciously memorized the card values. "Quirks.. is fun only for a limited number of times. The game is quite good until that point of diminishing returns is reached." [1]

Games magazine included Quirks in their "Top 100 Games of 1981", praising it as a "lighthearted game" involving "weird creatures and plants". [4]

In the December 1993 edition of Dragon (Issue 200), Allen Varney gave a thumbs down to the game. "One big flaw, I think, is that [the game] never identifies players with the animals they're evolving. Instead they're unspecified creature-makers who look down on these beasts and foliage from above. Quirks would involve me a lot more by evolving me — making me the creature who needs to emerge victorious in a niche. Deciding whether to eat plants or animals, or if I should ditch my wings in favor of an electric sting — that sounds like fun." [5]

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References

  1. 1 2 Goldberg, Eric (May 1981). "Games". Ares . Simulations Publications, Inc. (8): 29–30.
  2. 1 2 Johnson, Forrest (February 1981). "Capsule Reviews". The Space Gamer . Steve Jackson Games (36): 23.
  3. ↑ Livingston, Ian (April–May 1981). "Open Box". White Dwarf . Games Workshop (24): 14.
  4. ↑ "Top 100 Games of 1981". Games . No. 26. November–December 1981. p. 53.
  5. ↑ Varney, Allen (December 1993). "Social Board Games". Dragon . TSR, Inc. (200): 120.
  6. ↑ "Jeux & stratégie 17". October 1982.
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