In the world of international espionage, effective ways to complete missions are just as important as improvisation and secure travel routes. In Spy Connection, players travel across Europe to complete their missions as quickly as possible. To fulfill mission cards, players must build a route between all shown locations. While they may use their established network to carry out future missions, their network is of limited size: to eventually expand in one direction, they must remove markers elsewhere, adapting their network throughout the game to meet current requirements to fulfil. The first person to complete 7 missions wins the game.