Twirl has to keep the garden in great shape by planting seeds and feeding the koi fish and mice. Lefty’s job is to grab food off of a conveyor belt and feed the cats. Gizmo the kitty-bot needs to clean up dust bunnies around the house, but tables, chairs, cats, and other things can make it tough to navigate the rooms. There are four different robots in the game, each coming with their own sets of cards and scenarios.

Reset – All of the used command cards are shuffled back into the deck, the battery is drained one step, and everyone draws back up to their hand size.

Each scenario has rules for what happens when the robots run into things or move into certain zones. Execute – Flip the cards that were played one at a time and move the robot accordingly.If you have any of the robot’s special yellow cards in your hand, you have to play those before you can play any of your other cards. Program – You have to collectively play at least five command cards face-down and everyone has to play at least one card.There are three phases in each round of Quirky Circuits: The backs of the cards give everyone some information, like if they’re going to be movement or turn cards, but they don’t tell you the distance or direction the robot will move.

What makes the game challenging is that you can’t say anything about the cards in your hands. Each player will have command cards that control the robot’s movements, and you’ll need to work together to move the robot around and complete the scenario’s goal before its battery runs out.

In each game of Quirky Circuits, you’ll choose a scenario in the scenario book, read any special rules for that scenario, and then set up the board, which is on the opposite page in the scenario book.

The game was designed by Nikki Valens and is published by Plaid Hat Games. Quirky Circuits is a cooperative, limited communication, programming game in which you’re attempting to program your robots to complete tasks before their batteries are drained. We were sent a copy of this game by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. This Quirky Circuits review was made after playing the game 10 times.

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