Blokus is a fun strategy board game that is easy to learn and even fairly young kids can play. We’ve owned this game for about eight years- but we rarely play it according to the instructions.
Instead, we tend to you use this game like a cross between Tetris and Lite-Brite. We make designs. We make animals. We see who can make a color go across the board. Our kids learned their colors and shapes, in part, by playing Blokus.
We started when we had a young child who was still too much of a toddler to really grasp the purpose of the game. She wanted to play, she wanted to join in with the group, but didn’t have the patience to play ‘according to the rules.’
So we changed the rules.
Now years later, our kids will break out the Blokus just to make their own art creations and have a little fun. Of course, we could follow the instructions, if we wanted.
But it doesn’t usually come to that.