Strategies

Strategies in Blokus are divided into two primary categories: openings, and mid-late game strategies. Although many players argue that after the 2000 MB modification to the rules the latter is unnecessary, many successful players do and have used techniques such as "The Beneficiary Hallelujah Method".

Openings
There have been many different types of strategies throughout history, however this page will only cover particularly notable and/or recently made strategies.

The War Games strategy
Now there has been a quote from the movie,: "War Games". "The only way to win, is to not play.". Now as you can tell, a majority of blokus players follow Strategy 1.

The Barasona Opening
This strategy has been used multiple times, in The Blokus Anime. What it essentinaly is you open up with: "F", "X", "W", "N". As seen in the image below. This has first made in appearance in The Blokus Anime, Season 33, Episode 47. As an opening move for Bloh Cuhs.

The punching strategy
"Simple, punch the enemy" -Mike Tyson. This was one of the earliest wide spread strategies but was banned in 376 AD because people stopped even taking out the board and just punched each other. The proponents of this tactic formed the first boxing league.

The start was first seen in the Blokus anime in episode 5 of season 1 where it was used on Bloh Cuhs by a Purple Block Cultist outside of a Blokus match made an attempt to steal his lucky Blokus set.

The Beneficiary Hallelujah Method
This is when you pull a Counter-Strategy 129 (Written in the old sacred Bloacian Texts) Except this time afterwards you then place a "Xero H5" instead of a "PeTa Y3".