Fit your differently shaped pieces onto a shared board. Your own pieces must touch at corners while avoiding shared edges, making routes into open space increasingly precious.
Play style
Competitive
Suggested age
7+
Time to teach
About 4 min
Time to set up
About 3 min
Player elimination
No
How it plays
Tile placementArea control
Rules at a glance
Standard four-color board. With two players, each controls two colors; three players share the fourth color.
Your goal
Finish with the highest score: subtract unplayed squares and add the rulebook’s bonuses if you place every piece.
The flow of play
1
Place each color’s first piece so that it covers its starting corner
2
On later turns, place a piece touching its own color at a corner, with no shared edges
3
Continue until no color can place a piece, then score remaining squares and completion bonuses
A quick introduction to the base game. Use your edition’s rulebook for full setup, card effects and exceptions.