Each player in Tricky Tracks starts with nine square tiles, with each card showing some combination of railway tracks and possibly one or more colored stations. The game board features a 2x2 grid onto which players can place tiles, with tracks leading into these tiles and pairs of four colored stations (red, green, blue and yellow) surrounding this playing area.

On a turn, a player places one of her tiles onto one of the four locations in the grid, then scores for each pair of same-colored stations that she connects. Once everyone has placed all of their tiles, the player with the most points in her lowest-scoring color wins!