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Blokus Trigon is an abstract strategy game from the makers of Blokus. The board pieces have changed from square to triangular. Game play is similar to Blokus, as players try to get rid of all their pieces.
There is a solitaire version where one player tries to get rid of all the pieces in a single sitting.
Components:
Hexagonal playing board with 486 triangles on the board
4 sets of 22 pieces in red, blue, green and yellow
1 piece made up of one triangle.
1 piece made up of two triangles.
1 piece made up of three triangles.
3 pieces made up of four triangles.
4 pieces made up of five triangles.
12 pieces made up of six triangles.
Part of the Blokus family — see Blokus for the combined view.
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- Really fun game
- Good at four players
- Easy to learn
- Colorful and presentable
- Fun to play with the pieces like puzzle pieces
- Less enjoyable with fewer than four players (requires a dummy player)
- Trigon version is likely out of print and not necessary if you own regular Blokus.
- Blokus
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- abstract strategy — An abstract game focused on strategic placement of pieces.
- piece placement — Players place geometric pieces according to rules where edges cannot touch other pieces of the same color.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- My whole mission statement as a gamer and as a content creator is to make families aware of games that would be compatible with what they might do.
- It is an abstract game in the pure sense, but it is so much fun when you play it.
- It's probably the most chaotic trick taking game I've played.
- I hate luck based games almost as much as I love them.
- This game has fallen quite a bit because we just don't get it played.
- The pass the buck element to flip tactoe is really what makes it so good.