Welcome to your next Gulag.
As with all Gulags, each one will test a different trait needed to win. This Gulag will test your spatial awareness.
Welcome to tonight's Gulag, Blokus.
This Gulag is based off of the abstract strategy board game, Blokus. Both matchups will occur on the same 20x20 board and occur together. Each individual will have 21 differently shaped pieces (shown in link below). Players will alternate turns placing one of their pieces on the board.
For the 1st move, each player has to place a piece so it is in their corner square (each person starts in their own corner). Every subsequent move has players place another of their pieces down connecting from their last piece. However, players cannot have the edges of their pieces touch each other. Instead, the pieces must be connected by corner-to-corner contact. An example of a valid and invalid move is posted in the link below (with the pieces):
Link to pieces and example of valid/invalid moves:
http://imgur.com/a/vZ5M9 This game will continue until each player has made every possible move they can. When a player cannot make a move or does not make a valid move within the time limit of 3 minutes, then they are simply skipped for that turn. This means, once a post saying someone's turn has started is posted any move posted that is 4 minutes or more after that post at all times will not count.
The game ends when all 4 players either place all their pieces down or cannot make any moves. When the game is over a player's score will be the number of squares on the 20x20 grid (400 in total) that they have their colored piece on. In addition, if a player places all their pieces down they earn an additional 15 bonus points. If a player places all their pieces down AND the last piece they play is the single square (Piece 1) then they earn 20 additional bonus points INSTEAD of the 15.
While you are all competing together it will still be two separate matchups. So, the person in each matchup who score the highest will win the Gulag and remain in the game while the losers will be eliminated.
The board will be located at this link and be updated every turn:
https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1WfDA_YUhFC_LN6rlm2EXlv6y-026Jh43ifFdaVQchJI/edit?usp=sharing Any questions or clarifications needed before we begin?
