Blox

Build towers everybody shares, then cash the ones you quietly took over.

Designers: Hans Raggan, Wolfgang Kramer, Jürgen P. Grunau
Published by: Ravensburger

A tower-building game in four phases: play cards to stack coloured blocks into towers, then clear them out and score. Timing is everything — knock a tower down at the wrong moment and you hand somebody else the points. Two to four players, about 45 minutes.

Every tower is contested, none are truly yoursThe clear-out phase punishes bad timing hardAbout 45 minutes, best at four

Who it's for

Groups who like abstract building games with sharp elbows and enough length to plan a couple of moves ahead.

Not for you if…

You want a theme — this is a fully abstract game wearing a construction-site label. The card draw can be swingy, and losing a tower you built up over several turns is genuinely deflating.

Vibe's take

Calculating with sudden flashes of malice — you spend three turns setting up a tower and one turn watching someone take it from you.