Zuma is an elimination game that challenges you to keep the advancing string of balls from reaching the golden skull. You control the stone frog idol to shoot like-colored balls at the string in an effort to match up colors of 3 or more balls, thus eliminating them from the string. Bonus coins will appear which can enhance your overall score, and several "special" balls will appear within the string, which can slow the pace of the string's advancement or remove additional balls than just the matched colors.