Sekkoia Background

Why this name SEKKOIA ? The chosen name for a company can tell many things about the ambition of their creators. The Sequoia tree is one of the most amazing tree on earth. It can reach 100 meters high, with a circumference of almost 30 meters. It can live 4,000 years ! These are facts that appealed to the creators of Sekkoia.

They invested all they had, money, time, enthusiasm, on the belief that Game is a value with a great future, and that it allows several generations to meet within the family. They were also sure that they could only create their company on the broadest market, without cultural limitations.

Their quest is then quite difficult with the need to find games that can please to the younger and the senior and that can meet a success in Asia as well as in Europe or in America. But it is a really exciting quest and they have been already rewarded by the success that Blokus met everywhere.

Blokus Classic & Blokus Duo

The birth of a board game can sometimes have surprising twists and turns !

One day Bernard Tavitian, who is an engineer but also an artist (painter, musician, etc.) was looking for an original frame for a painting he had just completed. His painting represented an orchestra, the characters were stylized and made up of geometric figures. For his first attempt in black and white, he used pentaminous (shapes made up of five squares) without letting two identical pieces touch each other. When he thought about adding colour to this frame, he chose different colours for each pentamino. He then reworked his frame with the idea that two pieces of the same colour would never touch. This posed a complex problem 每 but an exciting one !

He also adopted the principle of a mathematical theorem that he knew : the four colour theorem. He was so fascinated by the arrangement of his pieces and his colours that he quickly realized that he had found the principles of an exceptional game. He quickly found the ideal number of pieces and the ideal size for the board. The game of Blokus was born !

Bernard Tavitian

The enthusiasm which immediately greeted him when he presented his game inspired a real vocation in Bernard Tavitian, and he has since invented more than thirty games in different styles, several of which have won awards.

Bernard Tavitian