In Tempo Tempo, the players have to match patterns to animals. At the start of the game, each player receives a set of animal cards (cow, rabbit, dog, cheetah, hyena and ladybug). There is also a deck of pattern cards; each of these cards shows a pattern that appears on one of the animals. The game is played in rounds. Each round, someone reveals a pattern card, then players must race to play the matching animal card. The first player to play an animal may keep the pattern card if he played the right animal; he then returns the animal card to his hand. If he played the wrong animal, both his animal card and the pattern card are discarded. After all pattern cards have been revealed, the player who has collected the most pattern cards wins.