Your first round
- Inspect the colors touching your top-left region.
- Compare both the squares each color would absorb now and the regions it would expose next.
- Choose a palette color, then reassess the newly expanded boundary.
- As the board fills, count the remaining color changes you expect to need against the moves left.
Worked example
Make the idea concrete
Use a bridge
Your region touches a small blue strip, and that strip borders a large yellow area. Choosing blue first can open the entire yellow boundary. Taking a larger isolated green patch now might leave that useful route inaccessible for another move.
Build your strategy
- Prefer expansion that touches several different regions, giving you more options next turn.
- Near the end, look for disconnected patches of the same color that one change can absorb together.
- Check the symbol on a palette button if two colors are difficult to distinguish.
Common mistakes
- Picking a nonadjacent color without a reason, spending a move without gaining territory.
- Expecting regions that meet only at a corner to join.
Try this next
On Easy, explain your next two colors before choosing the first. Try finishing with spare moves before moving to Hard’s tighter limit.
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