Blockus (2000)
About
Released in 2000 Blockus is a unique strategy game where the purpose is to be the person that plays all of their 21 pieces on the board.
A great example of incredibly simple and understandable rules that make it seem easy, but is actually quite difficult.
Thoughts
Tim:
4/5 Very Good
It seems simple till you play a game. I've played this one with a large range of ages and everyone has been able to pick it up rather quickly. It's interesting that the "luck" element is the 4 player nature of the game were no matter what your plan is, the plays of the other people can totally side track you. There is a two player variant sold with a small board and I'm wondering if that would feel more like chess or feel just as random. The game has a ton of well-deserved awards from Mensa to Spiel de Jahres. About the only caveat I have is that this is a 4 player game only. This is simply not fun with any other number of players.
Laura:
4/5
Good game requiring forethought, planning and either cooperation (not likely!) or a plan B, C, or D depending on how many other players there are that have to place their pieces before yours. Enjoyable easy game that isn't easy to master.
Trivia
One of the more interesting things I learned when looking this up is that the board has 400 squares but in a four player game the players only need to play 356 tiles, so if everyone played totally nice there would be plenty of room for everyone.
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11-26-2024