Who better to test their LEGO building skills than professional designers like Design Master Mike Psiaki and Design Manager Crystal Fontan?
Brick Like This! is the new official LEGO party game from Asmodee and Blocks Editor Graham E. Hancock has already tried it out with the amateurs and given a positive verdict – but now he’s seeing how professional designers in Billund, Denmark get on with it.
One person instructs, one person builds – but challenge cards make it tricky! The task might be to build with your eyes closed, only use one hand, not use your thumbs, instruct without speaking… these complications lead to some chaotic build experiences and add to the fun.
A whole bunch of brick experts stop by to play – Design Manager Crystal Fontan, Design Master Mike Psiaki, Design Master Yoel Mazur, Senior Designer Marina Stampoli, Designer Atticus Tsai-McCarthy, Designer Nathan Don, Designer and LEGO Masters veteran David Guedes, Designer Jae Won Lee, Designer Lisa Waggner, Designer Isabelle van Vleuten, Designer Blair Archer, Quality Director Helle Liltorp Johnson and LEGO House Senior Technology Engineer Jesper Skjærris Derdau.
Chief Product & Marketing Officer, Executive Vice President Julia Goldin is even kind enough to take a few minutes out of her busy schedule to play a round of Brick Like This!.
You can win your own copy of Brick Like This! to play with friends, family or fellow LEGO enthusiasts. Asmodee has provided THREE copies of the game for Blocks, the monthly LEGO magazine, to give away.
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Announced back in January at UK Toy Fair, Brick Like This! is a fast-paced party game that has teams competing to see who the best communicators are. Players break up into teams of two. On each team, one person instructs and the other builds – but the builder can’t see what’s on the instructor’s card!
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There are four difficulty levels on the build cards – if you try a harder card, with more bricks in the pattern, then you can win more points. Challenge cards add an extra level of complication to the round – they add a limitation that makes things even trickier and you can earn extra points by playing the challenge cards.
When one team declares that they’ve finished, a 30 second timer starts – the other teams must try to finish within the 30 seconds. All teams that have successfully matched what is on the build card get points! After a number of rounds, the points are added up to see who are the best LEGO Brick Like This! communicators.
In the video, the LEGO design professionals know all of the correct terminology for the elements, which makes things a bit easier. When playing with friends and family who aren’t deep into the LEGO hobby though, people come up with all sorts of wild names for the pieces and you have to decode what they are referring to.
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