The Game

The goal of this game is to score more points than your opponent by matching cards in your hand to the tiles in the grid.

Each player is dealt 4 cards, then they take turns until someone scores 10 cards.

During your turn you can do any of the following:

• Score a card - if one of your cards matches the tiles in the grid, move it to your “Scored” area.
• Discard a card - move any of your card to a discard pile, next to the deck. That allows you one manipulation of the grid.
• Manipulate the grid - you can either flip one of the tiles over or swap any two tiles that are touching by their sides. For that, you would first have to discard one of your cards.
• Skip a turn - if you haven’t played any of your cards, you can skip your turn and get two more cards. You can only do that once in a raw.
• End a turn - get new cards from the deck and switch a turn to another player.

The Solo Game is played by the same rules with the following changes:

• A deck will contain only 16 randomly selected cards (one 5-point, three 3-point, four 2-point and eight 1-point.
• You get a strike if you don’t score any cards during any of the turns.
• You win if you score all cards before getting four strikes.
• You lose if you gain four strikes.

Grid

The grid consists of 9 tiles laid out in 3 rows of 3 tiles each. The tiles have different colors and shapes on each side:

• 1 tile with a circle, yellow on one side, black on the other
• 2 tiles with a square, orange on one side, red on the other
• 3 tiles with a triangle pointing up, purple on one side, blue on the other
• 3 tiles with a triangle pointing down, gray on one side, green on the other

For your convenience, the Guide card with the images of both sides of each tile is always displayed on the screen.

Menu

Any time during the game tap the menu symbol at the top-right.

• New Game - start a new game.
• Settings - bring up the Settings page.
• Scoreboard - see the number of times you have won and lost the game. You can get to the Game Center Leaderboard to compare you score to other players.
• How To Play - shows documentation pages.
• About - show information about the app.

Settings

You can select from three modes:

• Solo - just play for the best score.
• Two players - play against you partner on the same device.
• Play against AI - single player against AI.
• AI Level - select Easy, Medium, Hard or Expert level of AI.

You can also set the following options:

• Show prompts - prompt the next appropriate action.
• Show warnings - tells you if you made an invalid move.
• Show AI messages - describe the AI’s actions.
• Fast AI - do not slow down the AI moves.

Score

To make this game more competitive, we keep a score for you, separate for each mode and AI level.

Your records are also pushed to Apple’s Game Center Leaderboard, so that you can compare your scores with others.