Stixx (2006)

About this game

Stixx is an abstract strategy/bluffing game, where the main goal is to obtain as many stixx of your own color as possible, while preventing opposing players from doing the same. Each player picks a color token at the beginning and keeps it secret. During a turn, a player can do one of three things 1) obtain a stixx touching the single grey stixx, 2) reveal their color and pick up two stixx, or 3) guess another player's secret color and, if correct, collect two stixx. If the player guesses wrong, she loses her turn. The winner is the person who has the most stixx in their color, with tie breakers going to the player with the most stixx of one other color, and then the player who's secret color was revealed last.

Does it fit your group?

• Group size. Works with 2 to 4.
• Rules load. At 1.3/5 this is a light game — explain it in a few minutes, good for a table that has not played much.
• Age. The publisher suggests 7 and up. That rates the rules rather than the artwork, so judge the box yourself for younger players.