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| Brand: Educational Insights Category: Toy List Price: Buy New: $18.90 You Save: $11.09 (37%) New (42) Collectible (2) from $18.90 Rating:  333 reviewsSales Rank: 3 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 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Shipping: Expedited shipping available Condition: Brand New! Save 30 - 50% off of retail prices on our wide selection of comic book graphic novels, manga and anime, role playing games, DVDS, Osprey military history books, and more! | ||||||||||||
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| Editorial Reviews: 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 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
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| Customer Reviews: Read 328 more reviews... Blokus January 6, 2009 Collette V. Brunscheen (Iowa) This has been an excellent addition to the family collection of games. I brought it to a large family gathering, and every family ordered Blokus for themselves. Fun brain challenging game January 6, 2009Mountain Nana (Julian, CA) I bought this for my 10 year old grandchild and the adults were waiting to all have a chance to play. It really makes you think and plan ahead. This is the best game I've played in a long time! Great game for the whole family! January 6, 2009M. Reeves My son told me that his enrichment class played this game from time to time, so we decided to get it for him for Christmas. This is a GREAT game!!! It takes 30 seconds (if that) to learn how to play, and really does require good spatial reasoning, planning ahead, and logical thinking. My 5 year old can play it because the rules are so easy, and my husband and I love to play it because the strategy keeps it interesting. I highly recommend this game to all ages! Jewel-like mix of 'Go', and 'Tetris' - simple yet deep. January 4, 2009Joshua G. Feldman (New York) Blokus is a brilliant and addictive game. You place jewel-like variously shaped tiles on a silver colored plastic board. The visual appearance is beautiful and soothing. The turns tend to be leisurely, as each player thinks before placing a tile. The action on the board, however, is fierce and warlike. Like the ancient Japanese game 'Go', the action is all about taking possession of your enemy's territory along lines in grid. Like 'Go', the power runs along the corners - which takes a little getting used to. Unlike 'Go', the playing pieces in Blokus are all different and unique - which introduces a Tetris-like puzzle fitting aspect to the game play. In order to win you'll need to visualize how the pieces will fit into available space and plan ahead. You end up with a fabulous brew of tactical combat, and spacial puzzle solving with the visual appeal of a Mondrian-like mosaic. Family fun at its finest! January 2, 2009B. Moen (Seattle, WA USA) What an incredibly fun and entertaining game for the whole family! We originally purchased this game a couple of weeks ago to use as a "trailer game" to take with us on the road while we were out camping. Well, since opening up the box, we've spent at least 1-2 hours a day playing it. Now,our 6 year old and 9 year old kids keep begging us not to take it out to the trailer's cupboards, and leave it at home for us to play as a family instead! Needless to say, the game has been a big hit! In addition, for all of you educators out there in Amazon-land, I would highly recommend Blockus for use in a classroom or in a homeschool setting to teach logic, critical thinking, spatial relations, geometric sense skills, etc. Buy the game and have some fun! | |||||||||||||
