Stake your claim and protect your territory with the Blokus board game! There’s less than a minute to learn, but it guarantees hours and hours of fun and strategy for the whole family!
This is how Blokus is presented to us, a design by Bernard Tavitian (Arlecchino, Nexos). First published in the year 2000 by Sekkoïa in a French edition.
When crossing the scorching desert, strategy is essential to decide how and where to lead your tribe’s caravan. Should you build the longest caravan or dominate the desert oases? What if you tried capturing more territory? Keep a close eye on your opponents’ caravans, or you might find yourself cut off from the vital water holes scattered across the desert sands.
This is how Through the Desert presents itself to us, a game designed by the great Reiner Knizia that forms part of his famous Tile-Placement Trilogy (alongside Tigris & Euphrates and Samurai). Originally published in 1998 by KOSMOS in German, the most recent edition has been published by Allplay. The artwork for this latest edition is by Damien Mammoliti (The Witcher: Old World, Foundations of Rome).
The goal of the game is to amass as many gold nuggets as possible while building your kingdom, which requires strategic decisions about where to place your settlements. The criteria for earning those coveted nuggets during final scoring will be defined by three Kingdom Builder cards.
Straight to the point: this is Kingdom Builder, designed by the acclaimed Donald X. Vaccarino, creator of one of the milestone titles that revolutionized the modern gaming landscape: Dominion. It was published in 2011 by Queen Games, featuring artwork by Oliver Schlemmer, one of the publisher’s regular artists who also illustrated titles like Fresco, Escape: The Curse of the Temple, and the second edition of Wallenstein. This design was awarded the prestigious Spiel des Jahres in 2012.