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Bloqs

A big cube made with small cubes

Since there was Blokus colorful geometrical shapes, made up from cubes, are en vogue; Bloqs enriches the genre with a new game.

32 pieces in eight shapes and colors must be combined to a perfect cube made up from 3x3x3 small cubes. The discs are distributed on the board, the pieces are laid out as stock and your marker is put on the starting spot: You roll the die and move your marker along the discs; when the move ends on a face-down disc you turn it up and and leave it so. Pieces pictured on such a disc tell you that you must place such a piece into your own cube; in case of an action disc you must steal a piece or take it from stock and put it into your cube. But: You only do this when the turn ends on a disc where you are alone. When there are several markers on the disc you must swap pieces with those players, with each of them in order of your choice. You remove a piece from the outside of the respective cube and insert it into your own cube. You must not cause collapse of the cube or shifting of pieces in the cube!

If you manage to construct a perfect cube of size 3x3x3 small cubes without gaps or protruding small cubes, you win instantly. When there are no pieces in stock or all discs on the board are face-up you win with most complete levels. In a Maestro variant you can play cards, too, sometimes instead of rolling the die, in order to change conditions for moving and building.

Bloqs is colorful, rather challenging and a wonderful family game! The perfect cube is not easy to achieve and sometimes it is better to change strategies early in the game and to decide on as many complete levels as possible!

Players: 2-4

Age: 8+

Time: 30+

Designer: Hyo-Jong You, Patrick Zuidhof

Art: Rick de Zwart

Price: ca. 34 Euro

Publisher: Playthisone 2012

Web: www.playthisone.com

Genre: Construction game

Users: For families

Version: multi

Rules: de en fr nl

In-game text: no

Comments:

Pretty components

Good, simple rules

Family game with a bit of challenge

Trains spatial thinking

Compares to:

Blokus and other games about filling areas and space using elements of different shapes

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 1

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 3

Action (dark green): 0