Very Clever Pipe Game, The

A multi-layered puzzle game. In the basic rules, two players are trying to form closed sets of pipes; when they do, their sets pop off the board and into their score piles, leaving holes in the board. After the deck has run out, whoever has captured the most cards wins. In the second variant of the rules, players ignore the pipe colors, and instead try to enclose background areas of one color. Again, they pick up the sets they make. In the next version, players can choose from either Pipe colors or background colors; this variant can be played with up to four players.