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## Classic Rules

There are four players, Blue, Yellow, Red and Green, and a board consisting of 20×20 squares.

Each player has a set of 21 pieces of his color shaped like the polyominoes up to size five. (A polyomino is a shape built by a number of squares connected along the edges.)

The 21 pieces.

The players alternate in placing one of their pieces on the board. The first piece of a player must cover its starting square. The starting squares are located in the corners of the board.

The 20×20 board with the starting
squares marked with colored dots.

The following pieces must be placed on empty squares such that the new piece touches at least one piece of its own color corner-to-corner but does not touch any piece of its own color along the edges. The new piece may touch edges of pieces of the opponent colors.

An example position after a few moves.

When the player of a color cannot place any more pieces, the player passes and the next color continues.

When none of the players can place any more pieces, the player with the highest score wins. The score of a color is the number of squares on the board occupied by the color, plus a bonus of 15 points if the color could place all of its pieces, plus an additional bonus of 5 points if the color could place all pieces and the last piece played was the one-square piece.

### Rules for Two Players

The game can be played with two players. The first player plays both Blue and Red, the second player Yellow and Green. The points of both colors played by a player are added up.

### Rules for Three Players

The game can also be played with three players. The players take turns playing the fourth color (Green). At the end of the game, the score of Green is ignored.

### Colorless starting points

Note that the original Blokus Classic rules used colorless starting points. This means that each color may freely choose, which of the remaining unoccupied starting points to use for its first move. Pentobi currently only supports the rule variant with colored starting points because this rule variant was used on the Blokus online server at blokus.com and in most of the past Blokus tournaments.

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