Contents: Objective: Game Set Up: How to Play:

A game by Frank H. Dyksterhuis & Vishal Mehrotra
Contents:
• 16 red tiles • 16 blue tiles • 16 green tiles • 16 yellow tiles • Game Board • Game Book
Objective:
Be the first player to successfully place four of your colour tiles in a row (horizontally, vertically or
diagonally) to WIN! Simple, right?! Here's the catch: the player who takes his/her turn
immediately before you, sets the limits of what tile(s) you are able to play next …
Game Set Up:
Place the game board in the centre.
Each player chooses a colour and
takes all 16 tiles of his/her
chosen colour (fig.1).
You are now ready to play!
How to Play:
1.
2.
3.
Each set of 16 tiles contains
four different symbols in four
different symbol-colours.
SQUARE TRIANGLE CIRCLE HEXAGON
Every symbol and symbolcolour
is represented on
the game board four times.
The youngest player opens the game and places his/her first tile anywhere he/she likes on a
corresponding square (such that the symbol and symbol-colour on the tile exactly match the
symbol and symbol-colour on the game board).
Play continues in a clockwise direction and the next player must make a move. This next
player can only place a tile that either shows the SAME SYMBOL (in any colour) or any
symbol in the SAME SYMBOL-COLOUR (as the tile just played).
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Example (fig.2):
The Red Player opens the game by
placing his/her blue square. By
doing this, the Red Player has
immediately limited what move the
next player may make.
It is now the Green Player's turn.
The Green Player, can now place
either a tile that has the same
symbol (in any colour, i.e. the blue,
yellow, green or red square) or a
tile that shows any symbol (in the
same symbol-colour, i.e. the blue
triangle, hexagon or circle).
In the example shown, the Green
Player has chosen to play a yellow
square.
Second move by Green Player
Other tile options for Green
Player’s second move
(fig.2)
Opening move
by Red Player
4. On his/her turn, each player must place a tile if at all possible. If in the course of a game, a
player cannot place any tile of the required symbol or symbol-colour, the move passes to
the next player.
4.
5.
The first player to place four in a row
of their own colour tiles wins the
game (fig.3).
(fig.3) Green Player wins by creating
four in a row of own colour tiles.
If a game reaches a stage where
nobody can place any more tiles and
a four in a row has still not been
reached, players must then, on their
turn, swap the position of any of
their own tiles on the board with the
identical tile (identical in symbol and
symbol-colour) of the next player.
(If the sequence of play was Red
Player– Green Player– Yellow Player –
Blue Player, then the Red Player can
only swap a tile with a Green Player's
tile).
Example: If the Red Player wishes to move its Blue circle, it can only swap its position with the
Blue circle of the Green Player.
(fig.3)
Be cautious, your swapping may facilitate a win for your opponent(s).
No fresh tiles may be added to the game board once tile swapping commences.
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