Blokus Classics Game
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Product Summary
Manufacturer: MattelBrand: Mattel
Audio: German (Unknown); Italian (Unknown); French (Unknown); Dutch (Unknown)
Release Date: 2009-01-05
Model: R1983
Product features:
- Blokus great strategy game for the whole family!
- Promotes healthy brain activity
- Includes 400 - piece game board with raised edges
- Winner of over 20 prestigious awards
- The most awarded game of the 21st century
Toys and Games Reviews of Blokus Classics Game
Customer Review: Fun and Challenging Strategy and Logical Thinking Game for the Whole Family
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a logical thinking game, a strategic game which is most easily won if one thinks ahead two or even three steps.
It is the type of game that can easily be understood and easily played but to actually win can be difficult.
Players do not need to know how to read. Despite what the maker says about the ages this game is for I am sure that younger players can play it so long as they have the attention span to sit down and play it, to wait their turn and are able to play a competitive game with good sportsmanship.
Each player has one color of tiles, one shape of each. The pieces are laid out so that only a corner touches, each player starts in one corner. To lay down a tile you must touch one of your color's corners to another of your color's corners.
The player can choose to make one's own territory to fill or can branch out toward the other player's starting corners. Whether you play boldly or hesitantly, defensively or offensively is your choice. Although it is best to think ahead a move or two fast thinking is necessary when the moves of other player's force you to abandon your plans and choose to make new moves.
What winds up happening is you run out of moves due to not enough space being left on the game board to play your larger or more oddly shaped pieces. It is difficult to use all your pieces when playing a three or four player game. The games is played with 2-4 players.
Everyone in our family enjoys this game. At first my eight year old was annoyed that he could not win easily and was a poor sport when he ran out of moves but he has progressed beyond that over the last six months. My husband really enjoys the game too which is good because he is not so keen on playing the majority children's board games or family board games.
We took the game to a family New Year's Eve party and played with a variety of people aged 10-45. It was interesting to see how the different people reacted to it and which loved it because those players usually don't play board games of any kind and those preteens and teens usually only play video games.
One night we took the game to our Cub Scout meeting and played it for a half hour with the eight year old boys. They found it challenging which surprised me as the gist was not so difficult for my eight year old son.
This is a good clean fun game for young children through senior citizens. There is nothing boring about this game in the least. I can't recommend it highly enough.
This would make a great gift for anyone open-minded enough to play board games (meaning, for those who have not written off board games entirely). This also is a good game to show children who are normally accustomed to only playing video games that board type family games are fun and challenging.
Description of Blokus Classics Game
Blokus develops logic and spatial perception while kids learn to be tactical. Players take turns placing pieces on their board, each starting from their corner. Each new piece must touch at least one other piece of the same color, but only at the corners. The goal is to get rid of all your pieces. The game ends when all players are blocked from laying down any more of their pieces. Includes one game board with 400 squares, 84 game pieces in four bright translucent colors, and an instruction guide.Fun for both kids and adults, Blokus is a strategy board game that challenges spatial thinking. Bright colors and simple rules make it ideal for ages five and up, but adults will certainly be engrossed by this unique and challenging game.
Not Your Average Board Game
Blokus encourages creative thinking and has received a Mensa award for promoting healthy brain activity. The goal of this game is for players to fit all of their pieces onto the board. When placing a piece it may not lie adjacent to the player's other pieces, but must be placed touching at least one corner of their pieces already on the board. The player who gets rid of all of their tiles first is the winner and strategic thinking helps as you block moves from your opponent. Blokus sometimes comes to an end because there are no more possible moves.
Four players make this abstract game especially fast and exciting; however, it can be just as fun for two or three players. Blokus has come up with a number of different ways to play the game to make it more thrilling when playing with less than four players. Draft Blokus allows a player to use more than one color and Reverse Blokus reverses the entire game so that the person who places the least amount of tiles on the board is the winner. It can even be played in a solitaire version when one player attempts to place all of their pieces in a single sitting. A game of Blokus typically lasts a 30 minutes. As a practical feature, raised edges on the board help keep the tiles in place and allow convenient clean-up. This game includes 84 pieces in four vibrant colors, an instruction guide, and one gameboard with 400 squares.
Blokus is simple to understand, but the game's complexity is revealed shortly after everyone begins to play. It can be addictive, even for those not normally into abstract games. Blokus is a catalyst for spatial thinking, as players form images in their mind before placing the pieces on the board. Children and adults can play together for hours of competitive family fun. As Europe's 2003 Game of the Year, Blokus is adored by many and even played in professional tournaments.
What's in the Box
84 pieces in four colors, gameboard with 400 squares, and an instruction guide.
 Once a piece has been placed on the board it can't be moved, so plan your moves carefully. |  Adding to the game's challenges, each new piece must touch at least one other piece of the same color, but only at the corners. |
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