Great Toy for Kids or Adults
I am a teacher, and bought this game for the students in the gifted/talented program. Of course, we just had to "try it out" first. We had a blast playing this at home. It is a good thing we bought two of them, because we definetly want one at home.

There are 4 different ways to play this game and they vary in difficulty, making it a wonderful game for all levels of players.

I highly recommend this game.

3D Blokus
We love regular Blokus and decided to try this one since Amazon had it really cheap. The game looked complicated at first, but after reading the instructions it was easy enough to learn the rules and figure out the best strategies. We're still devoloping our skills and find ourselves wanting to keep playing game after game to test out our newest strategies.

Even though the age recommendation is higher than for Regular Blokus, our young kids (ages 9, 7 and 5) are fully able to play and enjoy the game with us (the 5-year-old is a pretty advanced gamer for his age though, so this may not be the case for all kids his age). I love how this game challenges your spatial thinking. It's a very educational for kids, at least.

The only complaint I have is that the blocks aren't designed to "click" together very well, so the structure may collapse if you're not careful. It's frustrating to have taken turns carefully placing your pieces on the board only to have everything fall apart. It's usually impossible to rebuild it exactly the same way. This has happened to us a few of times, we're learning to be more careful but I wish we didn't have to worry about it. The board comes with a turntable so that you can just turn the game around to look at the structure from different angles without having to get up to do so. However, the turntable doesn't turn very smoothly, you kind of have to yank it (it has been the cause of at least one collapse), so we end up just turning the entire gameboard around. No big deal, but since it does have the turntable I wish they'd done a better job with it.

Overall, I think all Blokus lovers will definitely enjoy this game! It's fun, different, challenging, interesting... and addicting! All you'd expect from Blokus. Have fun!

great game - worth buying
Comparing Blokus 3-d to its predecessor Rumis, it's a much better value. The components are better and the grid on the playboard helps keep the pieces in place. You sacrifice 2 templates (Rumis has 6, 3-d has 4), but the quality more than compensates.

The strategy in 3-d is nothing like that in regular Blokus. Instead of connecting at corners, 3-d requires you to always have one face of your piece touching another, making blocking in 3-d more critical and dangerous since you could be completely blocked early in play. 3-d also seems somewhat quicker, so it won't require the same time commitment regular Blokus does.

Other than the lack of two templates, you may be disappointed in the quality for the price, although 3-d is an improvement compared to other Educational Insights games. I have Blokus and Travel Blokus also, and with those you get the feeling the game costs no more than a few bucks to produce but sells for much higher than the quality would normally dictate. It's a shame Education Insights skimps on quality AND charges you such a premium, but 3-d is a step in right direction, so I'm hoping the company realized this and is correcting it.

Overall I'd recommend buying. 3-d has its own uniqueness and challenging aspect. Plus, it's a nice change of pace to regular Blokus due to its quickness and strategy differences.