Its goal is to keep an ant running through the ant tunnels for long enough to acquire points needed to move up each level. The game starts with a screen full of ant facts, for example that it has 2 stomachs. Once the game begins, the ant will emerge from the starting hole within 8 seconds. It begins racing through the tunnels. Connect the passageways and keep one step ahead so that the ant never reaches a dead end.
Ants can go off the side of the board - they come on again on the opposite side.
The grids turn blank after use. If the ant traverses 8 grids and then goes off the side, the blank grids are reset, and an anthill appears - for extra points. Use of the FAST mode also gains extra points. There are lots of special bonus grids to make the game even more challenging.