Eric
United States
Bridgewater
Massachusetts
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I recently purchased Blokus, and I brought along with me while visiting my family. They all loved it, and I honestly lost track of the number of times I played. I ended up buying another copy for my dad as an early birthday present.
Then I had the crazy idea (inspired by the official 4 player variant of Knights of Charlemagne) to combine the two together!
The idea:
-Each player gets a single set of shapes, exactly as normal
-Players with the same color are partners
-Both game boards are in play
-Each player places one starting piece, as normal (they can decide where, but there must be one orange and one purple on each game board at the end)
-Starting player is determined randomly, and play alternates after that (A, B, C, D, A, etc). Players may play on either board, and placement rules are the same (color is all that matters, not whether it is "your" piece or not)
-Play ends when no player may play on either board
-Winner is determined by the team who has the least unused 'unit squares' left over.
We only had time to play 2 games of this, but it seemed like a lot of fun! It was interesting trying to manage both boards, seeing how your partner played, and being able to have multiples of a given piece on one board (and thus none of the other)
Comments are of course welcome - let me know if you like it (or hate it I guess)!
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United States
Manhattan
New York
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Sounds interesting, but I don't know how many people will have two copies of the game on hand to try it out!
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Eric
United States
Bridgewater
Massachusetts
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Good point! I know the 2 player variant of the original Blokus is kind of similar to this variant, so maybe 4 player 2v2 partnerships could work there, too? I would imagine the color disconnect would be a pain to adjust to, though.
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Russ Williams
Poland
Wrocław
Dolny Śląsk
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This seems to combine 2 independent concepts (team play and play on 2 boards). The 2 boards part is more unusual and interesting to me.
I used to experimentally play Go on 2 9x9 boards like this (just 2-player Go, not team), where you could make your move on either board. It was very interesting and instructive for not getting too focused on the opponent's last move - you should always look for your current best place to play, which might be far away, even on the other board. So personally I'd be curious to try 2-board 2-player Blokus Duo as well. 
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Eric
United States
Bridgewater
Massachusetts
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Two-board Go...that sounds very cool!
I think 2-player 2-board Blokus could be great, too...I'll have to give that a try the next time I see the family.
Thanks for the comments!
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