Hence its frequent designation as a family game or a gateway game. Teaches in less than 5 minutes, very easy to pick up, and amazingly eye-catching and attractive, Blokus is a very very accessible abstract. Blokus is generally best played by 2 or 4) For a 3p game, each player controls 1 color, and the fourth color is a dummy that the three players take turns controlling on its supposed turn. (Note : for 2p game, each player controls 2 colors. Player with the most positive score wins the game. The last piece you placed was the single square piece (the “monomino”)? +5 points for you. a 2×2 square piece = 4 squares, -4 points). For every piece they have left, players get -1 points for every square in them (e.g. And of course you may not try to fill in an occupied cell.Įventually the board fills up until no one else can place a new legal piece. The above link is a great illustration of the catch at work (image by user “WRS WRS” in BoardGameGeek, all rights his). and must not come in adjacent contact with any existing pieces of your color. connect with an existing piece of your color by the corners, The catch? When placing a new piece of your color, the piece must :
Play proceeds from then on, turn by turn, and each player places a new piece, any new piece, from their pool. To start, each player picks a corner of the 20×20 board and places any piece that occupies that corner cell.
The pieces consist of polyomino shapes (specifically, all free polyominoes composed of 1 to 5 squares) – as seen in and popularized by Tetris. In a 4-player game, each player starts with a pool of 21 pieces of their color. A territory-holding abstract that’s great & better with more than 2 players should be enough reason to pique one’s interest, no? If not, then let’s open the door:Įnter Blokus, where crystalline polyominoes of red, green, blue, and yellow vie for a place to belong – solid piece clicking upon solid piece, trying to fit in a world that’s just too small for the four of us.
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