Gemblo Mini uses the same gameplay as Gemblo, but on a smaller playing surface and with pieces for only two players. In Gemblo Mini, players take turns placing pieces onto the game board; each piece placed cannot be adjacent to any other pieces of the same color but rather must be a distance of "1" from another piece of the same color, where 1 is the length of a side of one of the small hexagons. (This distance cannot cross an opponent's piece.) The game ends once no one can place pieces on the board. Players then count the number of hexagonal units in the pieces they couldn't place, and the player with the lowest score wins.