- Easy to learn and play
- Includes 18 wood game pieces, game board and instructions
- Game for two players and popular among young teens
- Made with quality wooden pieces
- Age recommended 6 and above
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The concept is innovative and the sight of falling pieces attracts children and adults alike. Place the geometric pieces inside the clear playing board. Players take turns trying to keep all their pieces inside the board. Both visual and planning skills are put into play as irregular-shaped pieces are dropped into a slot. If the piece catches on another one and sticks out above the board's edge, the player loses the game. It includes 18 wood game pieces, game board and instructions.
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The concept is innovative and the sight of falling pieces attracts children and adults alike. Place the geometric pieces inside the clear playing board. Players take turns trying to keep all their pieces inside the board. Both visual and planning skills are put into play as irregular-shaped pieces are dropped into a slot. If the piece catches on another one and sticks out above the board's edge, the player loses the game. It includes 18 wood game pieces, game board and instructions. For 2 Players. Ages 5 & Up.
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When I ask you to identify a board game that is a strategic puzzle game for two players that also involves dexterity, what game pops into your well-informed head? Would it, perhaps, be Batik?
You know, Batik, that lovely, wooden, puzzle-looking game in the Gigamic collection - yes, that collection of wooden strategic games available in the US from Fundex Games.
Batik, the puzzle game designed by Kris Burmin, in which two players take turns dropping two different colors of wooden, tangram-like pieces into a wood and plexiglass frame.
One of the most self-explanatory games around, especially for those who've played Connect Four. Even those who've played with Connect Four, just to see what happens, like a checker-dropping 3-year-old.
See, when it's your turn, especially in the beginning of the game, it's not just a question of dropping any old shape into the frame. First of all, you have to pick a strategically significant shape (big? pointy? tiny? smooth?), and you have to get it to land pretty much just where you want it to land, somewhere preferably snug, or not, 'cause you often win by taking up more, rather than less space. And there's just a tad of luck, too. Taking turns, using any piece you want (unless you're playing the official "use only your own piece" version), making sure that you're not the player whose piece doesn't fit ertirely within the frame.
Not that I'm recommending you should, but nonetheless gleefully noting that Pete Hornburg figured out how to get all the pieces to fit perfectly inside the game frame, thereby demonstrating the puzzle-likeness if it all, while more than hinting at the possibility of the perfect game and the observation that you're playing in a game frame.
Lovely, the whole thing. Easy to learn. Short games (maybe 10 minutes). Fun for a remarkably wide range of players. There's the dexterity and luck part, so it's not necessarily the smartest who always wins. Which inevitably makes for more fun. Unless you get too serious about the game. On the other hand, it's good to know you can get serious about it if you have to - just in case.
You know, Batik, that lovely, wooden, puzzle-looking game in the Gigamic collection - yes, that collection of wooden strategic games available in the US from Fundex Games.
Batik, the puzzle game designed by Kris Burmin, in which two players take turns dropping two different colors of wooden, tangram-like pieces into a wood and plexiglass frame.
One of the most self-explanatory games around, especially for those who've played Connect Four. Even those who've played with Connect Four, just to see what happens, like a checker-dropping 3-year-old.
See, when it's your turn, especially in the beginning of the game, it's not just a question of dropping any old shape into the frame. First of all, you have to pick a strategically significant shape (big? pointy? tiny? smooth?), and you have to get it to land pretty much just where you want it to land, somewhere preferably snug, or not, 'cause you often win by taking up more, rather than less space. And there's just a tad of luck, too. Taking turns, using any piece you want (unless you're playing the official "use only your own piece" version), making sure that you're not the player whose piece doesn't fit ertirely within the frame.
Not that I'm recommending you should, but nonetheless gleefully noting that Pete Hornburg figured out how to get all the pieces to fit perfectly inside the game frame, thereby demonstrating the puzzle-likeness if it all, while more than hinting at the possibility of the perfect game and the observation that you're playing in a game frame.
Lovely, the whole thing. Easy to learn. Short games (maybe 10 minutes). Fun for a remarkably wide range of players. There's the dexterity and luck part, so it's not necessarily the smartest who always wins. Which inevitably makes for more fun. Unless you get too serious about the game. On the other hand, it's good to know you can get serious about it if you have to - just in case.
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The following review of Batik was written by Libby, one of my fourth grade students. Batik is a game was have used in class for over 10 years. Here is Libby's review:
Batik is a fun interesting game that is also very challenging. The whole point of the game is not to get your piece over the top of the plastic. There are two main colors there is a red almost brown looking piece and a yellow almost tan looking pieces.
What you do first is take the game board and stand it up right. Then separate the two color of pieces between both players. Whoever goes first drops a piece of their choice in the clear board. You can not touch pieces after you drop it in. Then the next person puts a piece in and on and on. When you keep on stacking and one player's piece goes over the plastic, that person loses.
Cons:The pieces are really easy to loose.
Pros:Everything is really sturdy. Also the board is really hard to loose.
Note: It is recommended for ages eight and older can play. However, I think kids as young as 4 could enjoy it! It is a family game but no more then two people.
Batik is a fun interesting game that is also very challenging. The whole point of the game is not to get your piece over the top of the plastic. There are two main colors there is a red almost brown looking piece and a yellow almost tan looking pieces.
What you do first is take the game board and stand it up right. Then separate the two color of pieces between both players. Whoever goes first drops a piece of their choice in the clear board. You can not touch pieces after you drop it in. Then the next person puts a piece in and on and on. When you keep on stacking and one player's piece goes over the plastic, that person loses.
Cons:The pieces are really easy to loose.
Pros:Everything is really sturdy. Also the board is really hard to loose.
Note: It is recommended for ages eight and older can play. However, I think kids as young as 4 could enjoy it! It is a family game but no more then two people.
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