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Blokus Classics Game

Blokus Classics Game

  • Blokus great strategy game for the whole family!
  • Promotes healthy brain activity
  • Includes 400 – piece game board with raised edges
  • Winner of over 20 prestigious awards
  • The most awarded game of the 21st century

Blokus develops logic and spatial perception while kids learn to be tactical. Players take turns placing pieces on their board, each starting from their corner. Each new piece must touch at least one other piece of the same color, but only at the corners. The goal is to get rid of all your pieces. The game ends when all players are blocked from laying down any more of their pieces. Includes one game board with 400 squares, 84 game pieces in four bright translucent colors, and an instruction guid

Rating: (out of 489 reviews)

List Price: $ 24.99

Price: $ 17.30

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  1. R. Larson says:

    Review by R. Larson for Blokus Classics Game
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    This is a great game. I noticed that someone mentioned their concern about losing pieces. Our three-year old lost a piece shortly after we got this game. I simply called the company and they sent me a replacement free of charge. They are great to work with. Enjoy!

  2. Mom of four says:

    Review by Mom of four for Blokus Classics Game
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    I only bought this game because it was recommended to me time and time again. It looked boring and simplistic, but I figured there must be something I wasn’t seeing. And there was! It is a great game! All of my kids can play it and challenge each other and me. This game does not necessarily favor the oldest(and supposedly wisest?) player. My seven year-old can beat the pants of me.

    It also gets the brain working in non-traditional ways. You have to look at the grid in unique ways. The pieces aren’t lined up in rows and columns like most games. You connect pieces by the corners. So sometimes you can connect a piece in an area that looks like it is totally bocked by your opponent.

    And of course there is the strategy… I still haven’t decided which is the best piece to start off with.

    The game also takes a nice length of time, not too long and not too short.

  3. online shopper says:

    Review by online shopper for Blokus Classics Game
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    If you skip over 5-star praising reviews, you’ll find from the 4-star ones that you really need all 4 people to enjoy this game. With 2 or 3 players, the end of the game is always like this: player 1 wins, players 2 and 3 end up with one piece each that they can lay down if you let them finish the last round. You can call it a tie or you can call it “1st player wins”, either way this is not a lot of fun.

    Don’t get upset though. There is a way to make it fun for 2 and 3 players. The creators didn’t think hard enough; but you can easily mod the board, and all you need is a thin permanent marker (like Sharpie).

    The general idea is to reduce the number of squares on the board so that players would run out of board space before they run out of pieces on hand.

    So you take a marker, and you draw a line one square away from each of the four edges so that the 20×20 board becomes an 18×18 board. This is your 3-player board. When in 3-player, players are not allowed to place their pieces in the 1-square frame you just drew.

    For 2 players, make another frame, this time 1 square away from the already reduced 3-player board. So you end up with a 16×16 board that is perfect for 2-player. Believe it or not, you can still get a tie on this board, but very rarely, and both players need to be quite creative and need some luck to get to a tie.

    Another 2-player variation is that each player plays for 2 of the 4 colors (for example, player 1 for green and red, and player 2 for yellow and blue). Players still take turns and lay down one piece at a time, but you choose which of the 2 colors to play with when it’s your turn. This 2×2 game is quite hard. Every time I play this variation it makes me feel my brain is about to explode (because there are too many choices and you only have one turn at a time!). I recommend trying this variation when both players already have enough experience with the regular game.

  4. kkgame says:

    Review by kkgame for Blokus Classics Game
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    A friend, who knows we love games in our family, bought us this. Well, within a day we all were hooked. my 5 year old and 12 year old can play with my husband and me and we all are challenged and have a blast! i bought a set to bring to our family vacation home, and my sister in law and i were up until midnight every nite for a week playing this game with whomever we could snag to play it with us!! even really little kids have fun just playing with the pieces, not actually playing the game. the only caveat I have is DON’T LOSE ANY PIECES!!!!! all of the pieces are critical to the game.. that is a real challenge in our household!!

  5. D. Moore says:

    Review by D. Moore for Blokus Classics Game
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    I originally bought this game for my classroom to help my students develop thinking skills. When it first arrived, I took the game home to figure out how to play it before introducing it to my students–and I was hooked! My own children are ages 10 and 11 and they love the game (we are buying a game for home), but I teach students up to age 18 and they enjoy the game just as much. Educationally, it helps younger students develop a better understanding of spatial relations and planning ahead. For older students (and adults) it helps to develop various strategy skills.

    Unlike most educational games, the rules are simple and once you’ve played it through one time (or watched it through one time) all your effort can go into plotting your moves. The game doesn’t run out of possibilities, either; every game is different, even if you play with the same people over and over.

    As an educator, parent, and game enthusiast, this was money well spent.

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