Skittles Game

When I eat Skittles, as in the small fruit flavoured sweets, I like to play a little game. I’m sure you will too, once you find out how much fun it is. Here is how you play:

1. Remove one Skittle from the packet.
2. If this is the first Skittle you have extracted, place it in front of you to start a Pile, then take another one out.
3. If the Skittle you have just taken out matches the colour of another Skittle in the Pile, eat both of the matching coloured Skittles and add 1 to your score.
4. If the Skittle you have just taken out does NOT match the colour of another Skittle in the Pile, add it to the Pile of unmatched Skittles.
5. Keep removing one Skittle at a time and either adding it to the Unmatched Pile or eating the two matching Skittles and adding 1 to your score until the bag is empty.
6. If at any point during the game the Pile becomes empty, add 5 to your score.
7. When you reach the end of the bag, if you have any lone Skittles left unmatched in the Pile, deduct 3 points for each one.

Now go and play it, and let me know how you get on.