Continuo is an abstract strategy game by Maureen Hiron first published in 1982. It is played by arranging patterns printed on a deck of 42 cards, each card being printed with a grid of 16 colored squares. The goal is to place cards so that the tiles match as many chains of color as possible. The tag line on the box is "The one rule game for all the family".
Versions of the game have also been published in which the same basic rule is used, but th...
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