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Calvin Drake Lucas Kouyoumdijan Trevor Taylor Zaid Ziauddin

Calvin Drake Lucas Kouyoumdijan Trevor Taylor Zaid Ziauddin. A French Game by Bernard Tavitian released in 2000. Formal Elements 2-4 Players try to arrange their colored pieces across the board in order to take up as much space as possible Players start from their respective corners

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Calvin Drake Lucas Kouyoumdijan Trevor Taylor Zaid Ziauddin

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  1. Calvin Drake • Lucas Kouyoumdijan • Trevor Taylor • Zaid Ziauddin

  2. A French Game by Bernard Tavitian released in 2000

  3. Formal Elements • 2-4 Players try to arrange their colored pieces across the board in order to take up as much space as possible • Players start from their respective corners • Pieces can only be placed diagonally from another piece of the same color • When a player cannot place a piece, they lose • Player with the pieces equaling the smallest area at the end of the game wins

  4. Begin at the corners

  5. Work your way across the board

  6. Fight to the Center

  7. BLOCKUS your Opponents!

  8. Madness Ensues

  9. All Out War

  10. Offensive Strategy Red is weaving around the board

  11. Defensive Strategy Green is building a “fortress”

  12. Be wary of other pieces

  13. Dynamic Elements To play to win or to play to make others lose? Alliances come and go Tensions build as plans are ruined Plan ahead for future moves

  14. Narrative Elements Manifest Destiny Board goes from blank space | | | | | V To an all out battlefield to claim these spaces

  15. The Best Strategy? From the Beginning, try to branch out to the center of the board, using your largest pieces first

  16. Did we like it? Yes It’s fun, it’s strategic, and it gets our blood pumping when we decide to foil someone else’s plans, or have our own plans destroyed

  17. Rules

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