Block It! Rulebook

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

• Contents
• Goal of the Game
• Preparation
• Playing the Game
• The Winner
• Game Variants

Contents

• 1 game board
• 25 colour tiles
• 25 bases
• 12 blocks
• 1 die
• Rules

Goal of the Game

Try to put all your blocks on the board by forming a square of 4 tiles of your colour: you can then place one of your blocks in the centre of the square.

Preparation

• Each player chooses a colour and takes the 3 coloured blocks before him. With 3 or 4 players, each player takes 2 blocks.
• Attach the bases to the tiles.
• Place the tiles randomly on the squares of the board. Attention! Do not form squares of 4 tiles of the same colour – it's just what the players will try to do!

Playing the Game

The youngest player starts. The die will tell you what to do.

Die results:

• Rotate any tile 90° clockwise (1×).
• Rotate any tile 90° counter-clockwise (1×).
• Rotate any tile 90° twice or 2 tiles 90° clockwise (2×).
• Rotate any tile 90° twice or 2 tiles 90° counter-clockwise (2×).
• Swap 2 tiles. After moving the tiles you have no right to rotate!
• "Anti-Block": Remove a block from the game board and return it to its owner. Throw the die again to rotate or swap. If the die shows another "Anti-Block", your turn ends.

Additional rules:

• If you form a square of your colour, or if one was formed before your turn, place a block in the middle of the 4 tiles.
• Tiles under a block cannot be rotated or moved.

The Winner

The winner is the player who first succeeds in placing all blocks on the board.

Game Variants

For a single player:

• Try to place all blocks on the board in 20 throws of the die.
• Try to place all blocks on the board in a fixed time (e.g. 15 minutes).
• Place 3 blocks of one colour on the board with a minimum of die rolls.

For 3 or 4 players:

• If the game didn't last long enough, try placing 3 blocks.
• Additional rule: it is forbidden to rotate the same tile twice.