Blokus

2-4 players (best with 4) // 20 mins // Easy

The main game board actually has slight ridges to separate the squares in it’s grid, making it easy to play your piece plus make it safe when a table is slightly bumped. Simply play a piece of your color to connect to the corner of any of your pieces on the board… yes, you only connect diagonally, not edge to edge!

Reminds me a bit of the cycle battle in Tron:)

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=> Rules
=> Variants for 2 or 3 players

=> Video playlist

How to play in 1 minute:

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Scrabble Up

This is a real time game in that it has a “timer” … which is the gimmick :) It is a small marble that rolls down the zig zag track – when it hits the bottom your turn is over:) While I DON’T like “timer” based games, I saw this game for $5 and got it just for the fun of it:) And you can play the whole game in about TEN MINUTES as well!

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Interesting … he explains the rules clearly (they are simple) but then does not FOLLOW the rules himself! (smile). He was supposed to make a word that started with the letter N … so he used the word PEN. Umm… that starts with a P :)

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Little Prince – Make Me A Planet

This game ties in quite well with the famous book (references at the bottom)! One of the videos said that they got the game first and then went and bought the book! We love the book, so I jumped at the chance to get a used copy of the game at I’m Board! Each player constructs a planet on a 4×4 grid so several of the videos compared it to Kingdomino (each player constructs a 5×5 land area)

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=> Rules
=> Lens One Page Rule Summary

=> Video Playlist

Playthrough – 2 player with one of the 3 selection tiles hidden (queued up to where they start playing the game)

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