The cubic blocks found in classic toys and games like Tetris or Soma align well with one theme at this year’s Fair: simplicity. We spotted a bunch of items that sported its characteristic tumbling walls: from Bumpity Blocks for the kindergarten to complex strategy games like Jakbo, there’s something for everyone.
Links:
Blokus [Amazon, $24]
Blokus3D [Official Homepage]
Tetris 360 [Mattel Radica, $25]
Bumpity Blocks [Creative Kids Stuff, $30]
Quantumino [Family Games America]
Jakbo [Fat Brain, $30]
Blokus is an excellent game that, while it uses -ominoes, does not really play anything like Tetris. Each player plays one color of -ominoes (includes all 21 -omino combinations from 1 block to 5 blocks), your pieces must be placed so that they touch only the corners of your previously placed pieces, but other players can place adjacent to your pieces. There is a lot of wrangling for position, etc. Highly recommended. There is also a “travel” version that uses a smaller board and is designed specifically for 2 players.