TOM YUM Soup for the Soul

This post is a bit late because it is in celebration of yesterday's Hari Raya holiday. It was a much anticipated break away from work and time with family and friends to celebrate and have fun. (Though I'm not malay but I always believe in "SHARE THE JOY").

I wanna introduce two new games that I tried yesterday which was very good family and friend fun.

(1) Blokus

This shapes placing strategy game has won lots of awards and is styled as the most award winning game in the world! Basically you take it in turns to place the shapes on the board, following the rules for placement, and the winner is the one who gets rid of more shapes. You all start with 21 different shapes and sizes of pieces - though they are all made up of joined-squares.



Chooses a colour and grab your set of shapes, you then have to start from your own corner, and each extra piece must touch your own colour, but only at the corners! The aim is to cover as much of the board as you can, while blocking your opponents. The game's over when no one can go, and the winner is the player who has the least total area of pieces left.

This is a mind challenging game that breed a high competitive spirit and ideal for developing visual spatial intelligence, to visualize shapes and foresee the grids in your head.

To see more of the real action, please visit http://www.blokus.com/page.php?p=demo.

(2) Cluedo



The classic detective game! In Cluedo, players move from room to room in a mansion to solve the mystery of: who done it, with what, and where? Players are dealt character, weapon, and location cards after the top card from each card type is secretly placed in the confidential file in the middle of the board.

Players must move to a room and then make an accusation against a character saying they did it in that room with a specific weapon. The player to the left must show one of any cards accused to the accuser if in that player's hand.

Through deductive reasoning each player must figure out which character, weapon, and location are in the secret file. To do this, each player must uncover what cards are in other players hands by making more and more accusations. Once a player knows what cards the other players are holding they will know what cards are in the secret file.

This is a great game for those who enjoy reasoning and thinking things out, especially for me who happens to be a great detective fan. I grew up reading "Hardy Boys" and "Nancy Drew" that my mind is always about murder and detectives.

To get your hands on some online action, you can visit http://www.cluedo.com/the-game


In any case, I intend to purchase these two games for my personal collection. Anybody keen to join me and play?!?! (",)