Board Games Blog

If you already read some post on this blog, you already know how much I like board games. I recently received an email from another board game lover who decided to build a brand new one for us game lovers. To make a short story, it’s a mix of Scrabble, Rummy and Boggle played in team or not. Like Scrabble, you need to build words to score points, but this time, you use cards that you lay down on the table. The deck of card will include special cards to increase the value of words but also to slow down your opponent trying to build this gigantic word. The game will be a lot faster than a game of Scrabble and I think a lot more dynamic. I didn’t try the game yet (will do soon) but if you want to learn more, visit the 5ToClose board game website for more detail. You will find all the details and game rules . Don’t miss my next post, I will describe my experience with this new Waterhole company board game.

Ok, you are wondering why I’m talking strategy in a monopoly kid board game. More than that, you are asking yourself what kind of strategy there could be in Monopoly Jun ior… I have to agree that there isn’t a lot of trick and twist but like the rest of the element in this board game, the re is a few strategy and they are simple. They simplified them in a way that kids playing this board game will slowly assimilate what a board game strategy is. If we take a look at the Monopoly Junio r chance cards, we can see: Free purple booth card, free light blue boo th card, free pink booth card, free orange booth card, free red booth card, free yellow booth card and f inally, free blue booth car d. Monopoly Junior Free Ticket Booth Cards The Special Monopoly Junior Card Strategy There’s also “special” card (my daughter like to say that), where the player is asked to move on the monopoly junior game board to a “special” location. These special spot on the board are the on e s you want to pick ...

S ince Easter, I've been playing Monopoly Junior every day with my daughter. She's alm o st four years old and she's already into one of my favorite board game of all time, Monopoly (we ll, a kid version o f it). I'm always fascinated by my kids and the speed at with they can get the grasp on something new. After three or four game, she knew all the main attraction on the board and was hoping to put a kiosk on it. The notion of money is a little bit more difficult to assimilate at this age but I think its better th is way for the moment! What matters at this age is more the color of things Follo wing that rule, she will always prefer purple instead of yellow and if I land on the unoccupied balloon stand, she will try to trade her helicopter stand for my balloon stand immediately! The reason why this kid version of monopoly is so easy to play with my daughter is because they removed a lot of decision taking (which is difficult at this age bel...

"Small blocking goods" Let me explain the reasons why I said that "It's not always the right move to put the biggest Blokus piece remaining in your tray", in my previous Blokus strategy's post . Blokus board game is like building the tallest walls to prevent people from playing inside your backyard. So, if putting a larger block on the grid will exposed your self to a possible enemy intrusion inside your protected territory, than it's not a good idea to lay down the big Blokus block.You always need to keep in mind that your primary goal should be to trap your opponents inside a small portion of the board, leaving some free space to put a mximum of pieces on it. To do so,you need to apply some of my previous Blokus strategies and keep in mind that you should prefer to block other Blokus player, even with smaller pieces, than let them in. Look at the picture on the right and you will understand what I mean. The red player is about to play and could possib...

My first strategy at Blokus is the "Get rid of the bigger pieces at the begining" strategy , but that, I already mentioned it in my previous Blokus blog post about Blokus strategy . This approach is probably your safest way to get rid of a maximum of Blokus squares but you also need to know where to lay them down on the Blokus board. So, my second strategy at the game of Blokus would be " Race for Blokus board center " wich consist of moving towards the center and my opponent has fast as possible. Why is that? Well, you want to be in a situation where you will have plenty of room to place you pieces later on. Let me illustrate what I'm writing about. In this picture, you can see the Blokus board with two opponents. The red one decided to go straight south while the blue Blokus opponent went straight to the center of the grid. It's early in the game but still, I can see a clear advantage for the blue player. The green curve shows where I would lay down my...

A Blokus strategy post! Two years ago, I discoveredd this very fun board game. The main reason why I liked Blokus so much, is that the random factor is completly out of it. It's all up to the player to build a good strategy and to adapt to your opponent's move. For those who didn't play Blokus board game yet, let me do a short introduction to it... I bought the four player version of the game (a two player Blokus also exist, the board is smaller) and played it with one, two and three other persons. You play Blokus on a board that consist of a 20 x 20 grid (400 squares). Each player have a set of 21 different pieces that will need to be placed strategicly on the grid eventually. The goal of the game is to place has many Blokus pieces on the grid. Each player will try to empty is collection of Blokus pieces on the grid by placing one when it's turn arrive. Some pieces will cover five, four, three, two and one square on the grid. You will understand that it's easier t...