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This is a guide for how to play the game Hues and Cues.

1. How do I win?
By having the most points at the end of the game.

2. How does the game end?
The game is a set number of rounds, and a round is when each person has been the Clue-Giver. We normally go two rounds, but the official number is higher.

3. How do I get points?
By putting your token close to the color square that the clue giver is getting you to guess. The closer you are, the more points you get. If you are the clue giver you get points for each guess that is close, so you are incentivized to give good clues.

4. How do you give clues?
You draw a card from the draw pile. It has four color with coordinates on the board so you know exactly where it is. Pick one of the colors as yours, and say a one-word clue to describe it (other than a normal color name such as Roy G. Biv). Then once everyone has put in their guess, you get to give a two-word clue to refine the description, and people get to place their second tokens.

5. How do you make guesses?
The board is made of a bunch of different colored squares. You put your token (playing piece) on the square you think best matches the description given. Only one token per square, so if someone before you takes the square you wanted, you are out of luck and must choose a different square.

It’s a fairly easy game, not much to it. It is more of a social game, where the official point of the game is to score points but the unofficial point of the game is for people to interact over the shared task of agreeing what color “fresh salmon” is or what the difference is between “teal” and “aqua” or if “blue-green” is one word.

There, now go play Hues and Cues.