Our Point of View on Blokus Games

Hi Cheryl from WTI. I wanted to talk to you today about my Blokus board game. This is a fantastic game and it's a lot of fun. What I like about this game is that it requires some strategy. It's a little bit of thinking. It has a beautiful board. Really high quality. The pieces are very high quality and it's a really fun game. I like that it only takes about 20-30 minutes to play a game. So it goes by quickly. It's a lot of fun. Let me show you how it works. So I have it all set up here to play. The board itself has 400 squares on it. You can see that it's a really solid piece. The pieces themselves are very good quality. I love the vibrant colors. They come in different shapes. Although you'll want to tear them apart because they aggravate you at times. They come this way for a reason. They need to stay the way they are formed. So what you do to start is it goes blue, yellow, red, green. Everybody needs to start in a corner. So you have to have a piece that plays in the corner. An example of one that you could not play is, if I can find it, this one. This one would not be a piece that you can play because you can't place it in the corner. Anything else would work. You're trying to get rid of your larger pieces. The five piece ones for sure. What happens is you want to have as little left at the end as you can have placed as many of your color on the board as possible. So I started this game just so you could see what it would look like if you were playing even like four players. You'd start, the next person would play and away you'd go all the way around. And you would then continue to add on to your pieces to your own color. Now once you get into the middle, this is where the game gets fun and strategies involved. So for example here, I could play this piece because I'm trying to block my opponent. You need to connect by the corners. So that would block the opponent in green, not being able to continue there. And perhaps with this one, I would then do something like this, actually this way, which would then block him from continuing there. And it would go around in the same fashion. So you want to block your opponent, but leave yourself an escape for your way out. It's a really fun game. At the end you count the squares you have left, so you want to get rid of as many as you can. I enjoy this game. I highly recommend it. And that is my point of view.