Don’t just play, talk about better ways to play. When we did start playing competitively, it was interesting to help her learn to strategize.It can be just as (or even more) challenging trying to be nice to your opponents as it is competing against them. We each played two colors and alternated laying down our pieces. When she finally wanted to start playing a game, she didn’t like the competitive “block your opponent” rule, so she created a rule that you placed pieces on the board so that everyone could try to play all of their pieces.She had to plan her designs to get what she wanted. The limited number of pieces and shapes restricted her in a way that coloring and drawing on paper never did. My eldest wasn’t interested in the game I described, but she loved the brightly colored pieces and the freedom it gave her to create geometric designs. My philosophy of learning-play has been to give my children as much of the “rules” as they can understand and then let them decide how they want to play. I started Blokus with my oldest daughter when she was 4 or 5 years old.If you never try any of my extensions, the game is worth it. First, the game as described in the Blokus rules is just phenomenal.PLAY and maybe you’ll accidentally learn something! Just because I list something as challenging certainly doesn’t mean it is beyond any learner. I’ve ranked my suggested extensions according to how I think young learners would be able to handle them. Here are some of the ways I’ve used/played Blokus successfully with my young daughters, my high school students, and with adult friends and colleagues. In short, Blokus encourages creativity and allows the space for that to happen. Blokus is particularly phenomenal not because of the game’s published rules, but because its simplicity and flexibility allow the creation of many games-within-a-game. I mentioned in a post from earlier this month that I thought Blokus was one of the greatest games around for young and old.
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