Continuo WC

Description

Tournament Format
Players Per Table – 2
Rounds – 6 (This may be altered at the start of the tournament depending on the number of players)
Clock Settings – 20 minutes per player. Scoring is done off the clock.

This event is the Continuo World Championship.

A pattern-matching tile game, ideally for two players, Continuo was invented by Maureen Hiron in 1982 and has sold over five million copies in a total of 37 countries. The game consists of 42 cardboard tiles, each tile divided into 16 (4×4) small squares. Each square is of a single colour and a tile may have either two or three different colours (there are only four colours in total – blue, green, yellow and red). Players lay down one tile in a turn such that it abuts at least one tile already on the table. The player scores all squares of a group of the same colour where at least one square on the placed tile is contiguous with at least one square of the tile it abuts. A group of squares may cover several tiles. The winner is the player with the highest score when all tiles have been played.

Tournament Play Rules:

• The game starts with two tiles in the middle, arranged in the highest-scoring configuration possible — though no one actually scores them. If more than one arrangement ties for the maximum, the starting player chooses which to use.
• Each player has 20 tiles to play over the course of the game.
• A player has 4 tiles open (face-up) in front of them.
• Once you pick up a tile, you must play it.
• To finish your turn, draw the next tile from your draw pile.
• No tile may cross the edge of the playing area (normally the table edge). The tiles already placed are fixed in their position and can’t be shifted. However, any other obstructions can be moved out of the way.
• If your opponent runs out of time, you may keep playing your own tiles until your time runs out as well.