Ixi Kix Review

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We review Ixi Kix, a dexterity game published by Luki Labs. In this easy to learn game, you are trying to flick plastic pieces into the box.

As a fan of all things dexterity games, I’m always up for trying the newest crazy concept to arrive at Board Game Quest HQ. From flicking games like Ice Cool to stacking games like Rhino Hero, I love the uniqueness that dexterity games bring.

And unique can definitely be applied to the game we are looking at today. Ixi Kix, published by Luke Lab is a flicking game(ish) where you are trying to get comma-shaped pieces into a hole in the box. Say what now?

Learning how to play Ixi Kix is fairly easy. Each player has a handful of these comma-shaped plastic pieces. On your turn, you hold it on the table with one finger (either upside down, or thick side up), and press down. The goal is to try and get it to fly into one of the two holes in the box, which will score you points. And that’s about it, you play till someone gets enough points to win.

Ixi Kix bills itself as an easy-to-learn, hard to master type of game. And while that’s technically true, it’s also hard to play. When we first sat down to play Ixi Kix, we kind of sucked at it. Well not kind of, we really did. Out of 10 shots, we were lucky to get 1 to land in the box. For some reason, getting these pieces to do what you want was insanely hard.

The other issue is that I found your table surface to greatly impact your ability to play the game. We first tried on your standard table with a neoprene pad. No go. The pieces just wouldn’t fly. So we experimented on a granite countertop, wooden table, plastic, a variety of surfaces really. We found the wooden table to be the best surface (of the ones we tried). It had about the right amount of grip and slip.

But as much fun as the game looked on the outside, no one really enjoyed it. My gaming group was more frustrated than anything playing the game and had no desire to finish it. I tried it with my 6-year olds, and while they had