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
The 2 player version of the award winning Blokus Classic. Its compact size means you can take it everywhere with you. The best spatial strategy game.
Each game lasts about 15 minutes
Suitable for 7 years and up
