The competition for space would be fierce at first and then would die down quickly as players just found the best combination of pieces to fill up the rest of the space that they had already claimed. Once all of the players converged they would have to head back to the area they already claimed and start filling it in.

Since you would have to play a tile next to your own tiles this would create barriers for all of the players.

As all of the players would reach the center at around the same time, they would run into one another creating a wall. Without this tiny little rule tweak though the game would hit a roadblock when all of the players reached the center of the gameboard. This is probably obvious for most players but it is usually a good strategy because it gives you more options for the rest of the game. Most players will begin the game by creating a line of blocks heading from their corner to the center of the gameboard. Having to play your pieces where they only touch the corner of one of your other pieces is important because it adds quite a bit of strategy to the game. This little mechanic though is one of the reasons why Blokus exceeds other similar abstract strategy tile laying games. At first this might not sound like much outside of being a little quirk that makes the game a little more confusing for first time players. Instead of playing tiles next to one another, the key to Blokus is that you have to play tiles so they only touch the corners of your other pieces. While close that is not exactly how you play Blokus. There would have been strategy in figuring out where to play your pieces to give yourself more places to play tiles while also minimizing where the other players could play.īefore playing Blokus I assumed that the gameplay revolved around playing tiles next to your other tiles that were already on the board. If this was all that there was to Blokus it would have made for a solid if not highly original game. As you share the board with other players you need to play your tiles in a way that protects your own position while blocking off the other players. Players take turns playing tiles to the board with the ultimate goal of playing all of their tiles or at least more tiles than the other players. On the surface Blokus feels like many other abstract strategy games that involve playing tiles.

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