Blokus
Must each player's first piece go into the corner nearest them?
The rulebook's first-piece rule names a corner, not the nearest one.
- Blokus rulebook · Rulebook · Playing the Game
- iklinck · Community · 2009-05-01
- DaviddesJ · Community · 2009-05-02disagrees
No. The rulebook requires only that each player's first piece cover a corner square of the board, so any corner works. Some groups use the nearest corner for convenience, and one player reads the rulebook's example picture as going clockwise, but the text requires neither.