Blokus
It's from 2000, before you were born.
- Maker
- Sekkoia / Mattel
- Type
- Board game (abstract)
- Debuted
- 2000
- Note
- Tetris-like pieces, corner-to-corner rule
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About
As of 2026, it's 26 years old.
Blokus snapped onto tables in 2000, a brightly colored abstract strategy game where players take turns laying down Tetris-like polyomino pieces, with one strict rule: each of your pieces can only touch your other pieces at the corners. The result is a colorful territorial scramble to cram as many of your shapes onto the board as possible.
It's elegant, language-independent, and deceptively cutthroat, as players block each other into smaller and smaller corners. The vivid translucent pieces and pure spatial-puzzle gameplay won it an armful of awards.
Colorful, corner-touching, and quietly vicious, Blokus is the abstract classic that turned fitting shapes together into a four-way territorial brawl.
