This game has been mainly designed for human playing against human.
The Zillions machine has very little understanding of the game.

You play as Red against Blue.
Click the main board.
One card will be dropped by the system onto the center of the main board, and seven cards will be dropped on each player's rack.
There are 81 cards altogether, and each player can place 40 of these cards.

A player's move consists of moving one card from the rack to the main board.
The card has to be placed next to an existing card.

The placed card can match the neigbouring card in the following ways:
- it may have the same frame colour
- it may have the same butterfly shape
- it may have the same colour of the butterfly (red, blue or yellow)
- it may have the same orientation (direction the butterfly is flying to)
In variants 1 and 2 you always need two such common properties with each neighbour;
in variants 3 and 4 (childen's variants) you only need one such common properties with each neighbour.

If you can place a card next to at least two neighbours, you have another free turn. Please note that you cannot pass this additional turn if you still have cards to play!

The player who has used his/her 40 cards first is the winner.
Counters on the left and right border show you how many cards you still have to place.
Because of the conditions put on the moves, usually the board will not fill up completely and the game will be over before a player has placed 40 cards.

You cannot pass a move in this game.
If you cannot make a 'good' move then you have to make a 'bad' move and the system will declare your opponent to be the winner.
This basically means that stalemate is a loss.

Variants 2: played on 7x7 board using 49 cards altogether.
Variants 3 and 4 (children's variants): one common property per neighbour.

 
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