Product Description

As featured in Hamleys Brain Gym. Brilliantly compulsive strategy game that has loads to recommend it. Like originality and international awards for starters. Best of all the rules are very simple and games last for 20-30 minutes. Once you play Blokus y

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #119 in Toys & Games
• Brand: Green Board Games
• Dimensions: 1.98 pounds

Features

• A game board with 400 squares.
• 84 pieces (i.e. 21 pieces in each of the four colours).
• Each of the 21 pieces has a different shape.

Manufacturer's Description
Twice voted game of the year. This colourful strategy game, whereby you expand your territory and blockade your opponents, has loads to recommend it. Like originality and international awards, for starters. But, best of all, the rules can be mastered in a flash and the average game takes just 20-30 minutes. Brilliant fun for one to four players.

The birth of a board game can is full of surprising twists and turns! One day Bernard Tavitian, who is an engineer but also an artist (painter, musician, etc.) was trying to find an original frame for a painting he had just completed. His painting was of an orchestra; the characters were stylised and made up of geometric figures.

For his first go in black and white, he used pentaminoes (shapes made up of five squares) without letting two identical pieces touch each other.He then decided to add colour to this frame, he chose different colours for each pentamino. Then he reworked his frame with the idea that two pieces of the same colour would never touch. This posed a complex problem - but an exciting one!

How would he solve this problem? He simply adopted the principles of a mathematical theorem that he knew: the four colour theorem. Fascinated by the arrangement of his pieces and his colours that he quickly realised that he had found the principles of an exceptional game. He quickly found the ideal number of pieces and the ideal size for the board. The game of Blokus was born!

The enthusiasm which immediately greeted him when he presented his game inspired a real vocation in Bernard Tavitian, and he has since invented more than thirty games in different styles, several of which have won awards

Customer Reviews

Game of the Decade
Nanny really came up trumps with this one at Christmas ! Such a simple idea, but an EXCELLENT game......just can't stop playing.A raised plastic grid & games pieces in four different colours that are squares joined together in different formations.The goal is to cover the board connecting as many as your pieces as possible, but they are only allowed to touch in the corners. At the same time the idea is to 'Block' your fellow players......trying to think ahead is impossible, just as you have your next move planned someone gets in your way!
Blokus is enjoyed by all my family from aged 8 upwards.....friends that played with us promply ordered two from Amazon....one for Granny! May you enjoy too !

What a game!
Bought this game yesterday and have played it for the first time today. It is a fascinating game that makes you think as the plan is to stop your opponent getting the most pieces on the board. I have tried planning two or three moves ahead but it is virtually impossible as someone always seems to put their piece were you are thinking of going. It is a good quality game that should give many hours of pleasure to any family that like a board game with a difference.

We LOVE Blokus
I was introduced to this game by a friend last summer and promptly requested it for Christmas. Since then I have found that everyone who I play it with buys it! - I have only given 4 stars for durability - the pieces are strong (believe me, there are times when one would be tempted to snap off a square to make it fit - but it isn't possible). My only reservation with regard to durability is that you need to keep all of the pieces (or else it wouldn't be fair) and some of the bits are very small.
I play this with my son who is only 6. OK - so he rarely wins, but I still feel he gets a lot out of it! If there are only two of you it may be best getting the Blokus duo - This one is really best played with four people.