Blokus (ML)

Your hand hovers over the board and the whole table holds its breath: place this piece on a corner and you cut off your neighbour... but you might lock yourself in too! That is the whole thrill of Blokus, an abstract strategy game where each player gets 21 transparent pieces of one colour and tries to fit as many as possible on a 400-square board. There is only one rule to remember: your pieces must touch at the corners, never along the sides.

As the game goes on, the board fills with interlocking coloured shapes, and every move becomes a small puzzle: grow your territory, block your opponents, save a tricky piece for the end. The rules take two minutes to explain, which makes it a great family board game for introducing younger players, yet four-player games are tactical and tighter than they look. When you run out of moves you pass, and you get to watch the others struggle to the very end!

Blokus is for you if you like games that are easy to learn, where you think one move ahead, with no luck and no text to read. It suits family evenings as well as duels between friends, and it is a great game for two, three or four players (it shines most with four).

A fun fact: Blokus is a Mensa Select game and is one of the classics of abstract gaming from the 2000s. It can also be played solo, trying to fit every piece on the board in a single game. Blokus was designed by Bernard Tavitian.

BOX CONTENTS
1 game board of 20 x 20 squares (400 squares)
84 transparent pieces, made up of 4 sets of 21 pieces (red, green, blue and yellow)
Rulebook

Number of players: 2 to 4
Playing time: 30 minutes
Age: 7+