Product Description

Blokus Classic - Board GameBlokus Classic is originally for 2 to 4 players, which has become a classic board game throughout the world. Blokus comprises of a square board containing 400 squares, and 84 pieces made up of small squares. Play Blokus with your family or among friends. With Blokus Classic you are guaranteed to have fun moments that challenge you and make you think. Blokus is very simple to understand and to master and is the best product for beginners and for young players.Blokus is an abstract strategy board game for two to four players, invented by Bernard Tavitian and published in 2000 by the Sekkoia company. Blokus has won several awards, including the Mensa Select award and the 2004 Teacher's Choice Award. Tavitian, an engineer and artist, was inspired to create the game while trying to find an appropriate frame for a painting of an orchestra made up of geometric figures.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #10922 in Toys & Games
• Brand: Green Board Games
• Model: GBG820
• Dimensions: 2.30" h x 13.70" w x 13.90" l, 2.60 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