Use your Paintbrush to spread your color as much as possible. Turn the most blank canvases into Paintbrushes to win!

SETUP:

For 2 players, use 6+ Blinks. For 3-4 players, use 12+ blinks.

Each player starts with a Blink—this is your first Paintbrush. Each player selects a unique Paintbrush color by single-clicking their Blink. Connect the remaining Blinks in the center of the play area into a single cluster - these blinks are now the canvas.

Example arrangement for 2 players

Taking turns, each player places their Paintbrush anywhere against the shape.

Example paintbrush placement for 2 players

GAMEPLAY:

After the initial paintbrushes have been placed, players continue taking turns, moving one Blink at a time to anywhere else on the board, aiming to create Paintbrushes in their color. A Blink becomes a Paintbrush when it's been filled entirely with a single color.

From left to right: A blue paintbrush, a blank canvas, and a partially painted canvas.

Any Blink that is not a Paintbrush is a Canvas. A Paintbrush colors any Canvas side that it touches, whether it's empty or not. Paint on a Canvas also paints any empty Canvas side that it directly touches, but does not affect a Canvas side that has already been painted. Paint from a Canvas spreads to other touching blank Canvases.

A painted canvas spreads paint to a blank canvas

Players can move any Blink, either Paintbrush or Canvas, EXCEPT for any that would separate the shape—the shape cannot be split up into multiple pieces.

In the first example, the pink paintbrush would be separated from the cluster. Separating the cluster into multiple groups is not allowed.

If you make a move by accident, you can also double-click a Blink to “undo” the last move, removing the most recent paint that was added.

WIN CONDITION:

Once all the Blinks have been converted to Paintbrushes, the game is over, and whichever player has the most Paintbrushes wins. Alternatively, if any Blink is moved four or more times in a row, the game is over, and the player with the most Paintbrushes wins. In the event of a tie, the player who was first to create the tying-number of Paintbrushes wins.

To reset all Blinks, connect them all together and triple-click.