Modes (lobby): ∞ Conquest last color standing wins; destroy bases by surrounding and hitting them; it escalates every 45s, sudden death at 4:00. 👑 King of the Hill: hold the center circle (own the most of it); first to 60s of total hold wins, or the longest hold at 3:30. 🌀 Chaos: a new event every 15s and everyone's slot 5 ability and ultimate shuffle. 🤝 Team Battle: 2v2 or 3v3, teammates share one color and build off each other's paint; wipe out the other team. P or ⏸ pauses; the pause menu can Quit to Lobby or Menu (after the first minute a quit counts as a loss with no coins; before that nothing is recorded).

💧 Paint tank: every splat and ability costs paint. Your tank refills over time, faster the more ground you own. Empty tank = no splats, so pick your shots.

🎒 Kits: 1 · Paint Bomb is always slot 1. Slots 2-5 and the ultimate are yours to fill from any ability you own, no repeats. Build up to 5 kits on the Kits page (menu or lobby) and switch between them in the lobby.

💣 Paint Bomb (💧16): lobs a shell that splats a big blob. It must land within reach of your own paint. Near an enemy base it does a little damage.

🚿 Sprinkler (💧22): place it inside your own paint. It sprays for 10s and stops enemies spreading into your paint around it.

🦷 Chomper (💧20): launch it from your paint. It eats enemy paint and nips any base it reaches.

🧱 Barrier (💧14): click and drag to draw a wall. It blocks paint and Chompers, and takes 3 bomb hits to break.

More abilities for any slot: 🌪 Tornado (💧26) roams and paints for 7s · 💥 Mine Field (💧20) traps that blow up in your color · 🧻 Paint Roller (💧24) drag from your paint to roll a wide stripe · 💦 Splash Zone (💧22) a puddle that keeps spreading for 6s · 🧊 Freeze Spray (💧18) locks an area for 8s so nobody can repaint it · 🐾 Critter Call (💧30) spawns a critter right now · ⛲ Ink Siphon (💧28) steals the ink well nearest your tap.

SPACE / right-click · Ultimate: charges as you paint (no paint cost). ✹ NOVA sends out a huge shockwave. 🌧 Paint Rain (shop) drops your color all over the map for 5s. Pick one in your kit.

🪙 Coins & Shop: every match pays coins: a base amount, plus your best territory, plus a win bonus, plus knockouts, wells, critters and betrayals. Spend them in the 🛒 Shop on abilities, modes and colors. Your record is on 📊 Profile.

🎨 Colors: Neon, Pastel and Metallic packs, animated 🌌 Galaxy (swirling nebula, twinkling stars, shooting stars), Glow-in-the-dark, animated Rainbow, Lava, Glitch and Camo paint, and the RGB Board for any color you like. Bots only use abilities you've unlocked, and switch away from colors too close to yours.

🐾 Paint critters: grow one big connected blob of your color and it comes alive as a critter (up to 2) that wanders your borders painting for you. Splat it, or swamp it in your paint, to kill an enemy critter.

⛲ Ink wells: fountains on the map. Paint over most of one to own it: you get a big tank refill boost and it splashes your color around itself.

🤝 Alliances (lobby, 3+ players): allies share a blended color, can build off each other's paint and never paint over each other. When only the two allies are left: BETRAYAL! Their paint splits and they fight.

Bot personalities: 🛡 Turtle holds a corner and defends · ⚔ Rusher hunts whoever is leading · 🧭 Explorer grabs empty ground and wells · 🎲 Random.

Base zone (dashed circle): enemy paint spreads slowly inside it. A badly hurt base fires a defense pulse. Power-ups (⚡❄✚★✸➶👻): paint over one to grab it. Events: Storm · Gold Zone · Mirror Bombs · Overdrive · Munch Monster.