Players pick a color pattern and attempt to recreate it on the board while the other players attempt to do the same or prevent this from happening. Winner is the first person to complete their pattern. Throughout the 1930's and 1940's, the game was produced in Germany. You can tell what era by the box top label. In the 1930's and early 1940's, it was labeled "Manufactured at Spears Works in Germany Copyright" while in late 1940's, it read "in West Germany Copyright."