Cube Quest is a dexterity board game all about the sweet, sweet clash for the crown.

What exactly is a Dexterity game? They are not about strategy or strict rules or intense wit, but instead about your own body. Yes. YOU! And let’s be honest.. you ARE the best part of every game you’ve ever played.

Cube Quest’s rules can be summarized in two sentences. Your goal is to flick your opponents king off the mat. On your turn choose one of your pieces and flick it.

Alright.

Fine.

That’s not exactly true. There’s actually a few more things to cover. You also have two distinct sides on each cube, an active side, and a defeated side. The defeated side looks like a shadow of the image.

As you can see sometimes this attracts quite a crowd as well. When this happens with a cube on your opponents side of the wall, you must roll it and it needs to land with its active side up, otherwise you remove it from the board. Also, any dice which falls off the mat, no matter how it happens, is removed from the game.

There is a fantastic part to that rule though. A dice is only removed if it is COMPLETELY off the mat. This can lead to…well…

That’s your king, after your opponent’s flick. A mere breath in the wrong direction and it is game over. You start to sweat. Your heart is racing. You could use the king’s special ability and automatically move him back into your castle, but a king never plays it safe. He leads his troops in battle and he will show them how a true warrior fights. Aaannnddd… usually be flicked immediately off the board after this situation.

There is one final part of the game. When the game begins, you hear the two sentence explanation and worry about the extra rules later as you are ready to get to the flicking but then, suddenly, THE WALL is placed.

It also functions as the game box. This stops you from seeing what your opponent is planning. See… At the start of the game, you can play your pieces in ANY way you want. Following one rule : your king is in your castle. That little broken castle you can see pictured. This leads to some crazy ideas. Let’s take a look at the Hall of Fame.

First there is the “I’m not sure I understand this game.” The usual first strategies. Either spread sparse or clumped close together. A sign of new players.

Then the tomb comes out. The king is in his castle, just heavily defended.

Then you build a battering ram, this thing will get through ANY defense. It is UNSTOPPABLE.

…….

And then you think to yourself..”the king needs to be in the castle?”

He is IN the castle. He is just in the watchtower right now. Do you need him?

And each time that wall is pulled back, and you see what your opponent has created, you both smirk as you thought you had the best idea THIS time. And you thought the ideas would never get better and yet they have improved every time. This is simply a test of creativity now. It no longer becomes about the best strategy, but about how to make the most ridiculous structure. And then….

You remove the wall, and you both BURST. You thought you finally had it. It was the best strategy yet… and it’s exactly the same as what your opponent created. These are some of the finest moments of the game. Not only does this game create great tension through flicking dice that barely hold onto the mat, but it creates uproarious laughter when that wall is finally removed after you spent 5 minutes trying to get your cubes to stack JUST perfectly.

My only disappointment with the game is the limited two player count. You cannot play this with more than 1 other player, but you will both love this game. It is fantastically designed and has many other secrets and amazing moments that I have kept out of this review. I cannot recommend this game enough and these pictures hardly begin the capture the beauty. It is a great, cheap (around $20) gift for that important person in your life.

Cube Quest is available on Amazon : https://www.amazon.com/Cube-Quest-Clash-Crown-Board/dp/B00BCRQ4LE