Game	Blokus
Year	2000
Publisher	Sekkoia, Winning Moves
Designer	Bernard Tavitian
# players	2-4 players
Duration	max. 30 minutes
Game type	Board game
What is so special about this game?	Each player has 21 pieces of which he should place as much as possible on a square board. The first tile needs to be placed in a corner of the board. Each new piece must touch at least one other piece of the same player diagonally, but none orthogonally. Blokus is an abstract game which is very easy to get in. The rules are explained in less than 5 minutes. You don't have to like abstract games (genre Go, Chess, Gipf, ...) to like this game. And unlike many other abstract games, Blokus plays well for the first time.