Thanks to Snowmageddon 2010, our kids haven’t been to school since the morning of February 5th (they came home two hours early that day). In case you need help with that calculation, they have been home for 10 days, with 50+ of snow on the ground. This has made for a lot of “family time” (some good and some… not so good). But the good parts had a lot to do with one particular board game, which has been played for hours on end with everyone from grandparents to neighbors. The game? Blokus.
Yes! We finally found a game that is equally challenging to an 8-year-old, a 10-year-old, and their parents (who are at least 30… something). You each receive a series of pieces that look like they belong in a game of Tetris. You’re then instructed to place them all on the board. Sounds simple enough, right? Sure. But when everyone else is placing their pieces on the board in such as way as to “block” you (it’s the name of the game, folks), things get pretty tough.
In fact, I wasn’t able play all of my pieces for the first month of owning the game. None of us did. But then, I played a game with three friends and actually went out. Hooray! (OK, I admit these women had never played the game before so maybe it wasn’t truly fair, but I still used all my pieces for the first time ever!)
The only potential drawback is that you really need four players to play the game correctly. But with our family of four, that actually works really well. During the Super Bowl, we had a bunch of people over and took turns playing rounds of Blokus. Everyone had a blast.
If you haven’t yet tried this game, definitely check it out. I think you’ll end up with some really fun family time… we certainly did 
. (P.S. Target sells it for about $27, but Amazon has it for less than $20.) We’re now off to purchase the alternative version… with triangles.
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