PLAYED FOR YOU

Color pop

THREE YELLOW GONE - But I have green!

The game features 95 pieces in five colors plus five white joker pieces. At the start of the game you are secretly assigned a color and you try to have as few pieces of your own color left on the board as possible at the end of the game. The pieces are randomly distributed on the board at the beginning - you put them into the ten slides, which are inserted into the board frame - but there cannot be more than five pieces in a horizontal or vertical line. Then you pick up one of the face-down color markers, look at it and and keep it face-down, only you do know your color.

In your turn you choose a group of adjacent pieces of the same color and push them down to take them out of the game. You cannot remove a single piece and must remove all pieces in a group. Jokers take on the color you assign to them by including or excluding them from a group.

At the end of your turn you collect the pieces you removed before you on the table. You cannot pass a turn and must remove groups while available. When a slide is empty it is removed and put at the border of the board because an empty slide cannot split the board in two.  

You win automatically when all pieces of your color are gone. Alternately, when only single pieces are left, you win with the fewest pieces left on the board. In case of a tie you win if you took fewer pieces of your color.

Like all Gigamic games this one is deceptively simple, too. You need a goon spatial imagination to combine your own pieces into groups which will hopefully be removed by a fellow player! Tricky, tactical and often a huge surprise!

Players: 1-5

Age: 8+

Time: 20+

Designer: Lionel Borg

Art: Design France

Price: ca. 25 Euro

Publisher: Gigamic 2012

Web: www.gigamic.com

Genre: Elimination game

Users: For families

Special: 1 player

Version: multi

Rules: 23 languages

In-game text: no

Comments:

Abstract game

Can be played by one or in teams

Needs good spatial thinking

Compares to:

First game of its kind on a board

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 0

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 2

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0