Grackles are noisy iridescent birds that love to gather on telephone wires at sunset throughout the southwestern United States In the lightly-themed abstract strategy game Grackles you line up your birds on the telephone wire to score as many points as possible Each turn players choose between drawing & placing a tile connecting two spots on the telephone wire with their birds extending a line of birds or rotating an empty tile After the board has been built to five tiles by five tiles & all available pairs of spots on the telephone wire have birds on them the player with the most birds on the telephone wire wins Players 2-4 Playing time 20-30 mins Ages 10