Viewing and playing
Drag anywhere in the 3D scene to rotate the cube. Use the mouse wheel or trackpad to zoom. Camera presets provide isometric, front, side, and top views.
The 3D cube is now the primary move interface. Hover a node to preview the current player’s mark, then click without dragging to place it. Dragging rotates the cube, while the mouse wheel or trackpad zooms.
The compact four-level boards below remain available for precision input and accessibility. Use Level 1–4 controls to enter focused-layer inspection, which fades the other planes and slightly reframes the camera.
The Theme menu offers Modern Blue, Classic Console Green, Light Grayscale, and Colorful appearances. Light Grayscale now uses stronger dark text, borders, and white control surfaces for improved readability.
Game Sounds and Reduced Motion can be switched independently. Both settings are remembered locally.
Computer opponent
Select Human vs Computer to play X against the computer’s O. Beginner uses tactical safeguards with more varied choices. Intermediate evaluates immediate wins, blocks, forks, threats, defensive value, and positional strength. Expert adds iterative deepening, alpha-beta pruning, move ordering, and a transposition cache.
Expert search can be set to Fast, Balanced, or Deep. It always stops at its time budget and uses the strongest fully completed search result.
Match and replay features
Choose a single round, best-of-three, or best-of-five match. Optional turn timers automatically place a legal move when time expires. Computer Demonstration mode lets the game play both sides at a slower viewing pace and automatically enables camera rotation. Completed rounds are stored in the Replays window and can be stepped through or played automatically.
Keyboard play
Use Arrow keys to move through rows and columns, Page Up and Page Down to change levels, and Enter or Space to place the current mark. Home selects Level 1 Row 1 Column 1; End selects Level 4 Row 4 Column 4.
Saved data
Qubic! saves preferences, scores, and completed replays in this browser. Enable Restore Unfinished Match to reopen an incomplete round after closing the page. Clear Saved Data removes all stored Qubic! information.
Level 1 is the bottom plane and Level 4 is the top plane.
