A string of differently colored marbles slowly moves through the winding channel, from the outside of the board toward the frog in the center. Players have a top-down view of the action. Each playing field has a grooved channel that winds and twists about, and a stone frog 'idol' in the center. Zuma is an action-puzzle game that puts the sphere-shooting, color-matching play of the Bust-A-Move games on a variety of patterned playing fields.