ComPYL is short for "Combinatorial Press Your Luck". It is a game that involves perfect information and involves no luck. In the game, players have a number of identical cards they use to advance their piece around a board, to spaces with objectives the need to meet. Players will take their cards, which are known to all players, and go around selecting a card from these cards to form their hand. Play continues until all players have created their hand. Then, players will play out the cards they selected for their hand. If a players plays all their cards from their hand, they then advance their score piece on the scoring part of the board a number of spaces that corresponds to the number of cards in their hand (the larger their hand, the further they advance).
Object of the game is reach target score/area at the end of the scoring track.