Palago is a tile placement game in which players strive to form closed groups of their colour. Two players; White and Blue; share a common pool of 48 hexagonal arch tiles. Each tile contains a white arch and a blue arch; and may be oriented in three ways such that the corner colours are the same for each rotation.

White starts by placing two adjacent tiles; then players then take turns adding two adjacent tiles such that edge colours match neighbouring tiles.

The game is won by the player who forms a surrounded island of their colour containing at least one arch. If a move forms winning groups for both players; then the mover loses.