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| Brand: Educational Insights
Category: Toy
List Price: $29.99
Buy New: $16.50
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Rating:  302 reviews
Sales Rank: 6
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Age: 5 - 12 years
Size: Standard: 13.8 x 13.7 x 2.2 inches
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.6
Dimensions (in): 13.8 x 13.7 x 2.2
MPN: 2995
Model: 2995
UPC: 674000900198
EAN: 0674000900198
ASIN: B00011F5DK
Release Date: May 1, 2007
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| Features:
| • | The most awarded game of the 21st century | | • | Promotes healthy brain activity; winner of 20+ prestigious awards, including Mensa Select | | • | Features bright colors and simple rules; ideal for ages 5 and up | | • | Game ends when one person places all their pieces, or when there are no possible moves | | • | Includes 400 - piece game board with raised edges, 84 colored playing pieces, and instruction guide |
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Product Description
Grades K and up. Europe's 2003 game of the year! Develops logic and spacial 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 gameboard with 400 squares, 84 game pieces in four bright translucent colors, and an instruction guide.
Amazon.com Product Description
Fun for both kids and adults, Blokus is a strategy board game that challenges spatial thinking. Bright colors and simple rules make it ideal for ages five and up, but adults will certainly be engrossed by this unique and challenging game. Not Your Average Board Game
Blokus encourages creative thinking and has received a Mensa award for promoting healthy brain activity. The goal of this game is for players to fit all of their pieces onto the board. When placing a piece it may not lie adjacent to the player's other pieces, but must be placed touching at least one corner of their pieces already on the board. The player who gets rid of all of their tiles first is the winner and strategic thinking helps as you block moves from your opponent. Blokus sometimes comes to an end because there are no more possible moves. Four players make this abstract game especially fast and exciting; however, it can be just as fun for two or three players. Blokus has come up with a number of different ways to play the game to make it more thrilling when playing with less than four players. Draft Blokus allows a player to use more than one color and Reverse Blokus reverses the entire game so that the person who places the least amount of tiles on the board is the winner. It can even be played in a solitaire version when one player attempts to place all of their pieces in a single sitting. A game of Blokus typically lasts a 30 minutes. As a practical feature, raised edges on the board help keep the tiles in place and allow convenient clean-up. This game includes 84 pieces in four vibrant colors, an instruction guide, and one gameboard with 400 squares. Blokus is simple to understand, but the game's complexity is revealed shortly after everyone begins to play. It can be addictive, even for those not normally into abstract games. Blokus is a catalyst for spatial thinking, as players form images in their mind before placing the pieces on the board. Children and adults can play together for hours of competitive family fun. As Europe's 2003 Game of the Year, Blokus is adored by many and even played in professional tournaments. What's in the Box
84 pieces in four colors, gameboard with 400 squares, and an instruction guide. 
Once a piece has been placed on the board it can't be moved, so plan your moves carefully. | 
Adding to the game's challenges, each new piece must touch at least one other piece of the same color, but only at the corners. |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 297 more reviews...
Blokus November 25, 2008
What a terrific learning tool. They play this game for honing math skills in school and the kids absolutely love it!
From classroom to living room November 23, 2008
I originally bought this game for my classroom. The students (16-21) loved it. It was very interesting to see students who were not generally successful with more traditional classroom games thrive with this game.
I am now considering purchasing a second copy of this (and Blokus Trigon) so that I can have a copy at home and at school. It's an excellent addition to your collection.
My only concern is that with such small pieces, they could get lost very easily in my classroom. I was pleased to see what I thought was a very reasonable missing piece policy on the internet. I have not had a single piece go missing, but in the future, I will use plastic bags for my classroom copy of the game to prevent loss.
It's awesome! November 16, 2008
This game is great! It's a game that can be played with 4 people and different colors. Even though it might be easy to lose some pieces it is still fun.You will find it hard to put the right pieces at the correct time.
Fun and addicting November 16, 2008
My son received this game as a gift when he was 6 years old, and it still is his favorite game 2 years later. He will actually play against himself to figure out new strategies. My son has played so much at this point that it is impossible to beat him. The game has very clear instructions and it doesn't take long at all to learn how to play. you can play with 2 - 4 players, with more players making it more interesting. The object of the game is to use up as many of your pieces as possible while at the same time blocking your opponents. The pieces are all different shapes which I learned quickly can become challenging. The great thing about this game is that because of the shapes of the pieces it really is different every time you play.
EXCELLENT November 13, 2008
My 6 year old grandson plays this in school and loves it so much he asked for it for CHRISTMAS. So I bought one for each family that has young kids. Anything that brings a family together, and is educational is is #1 in my book.
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