In Allegra, based on the public card game "Golf", you want to keep your score as low as possible, but to do so, you sometimes have to help your neighbours along the way. The game consists of cards numbered -1 to 11, and in each of the three rounds, each player starts with twelve cards face down in a grid of four columns and three rows. Your rightmost column is also considered to belong to your right-hand neighbour, and similarly, your area includes the rightmost column of your left-hand neighbour. Each player reveals two cards from their area, and then the turn begins.
On each turn, you draw the top card from the deck and reveal it, or you draw the top card from the discard pile. If you draw from the discard pile, swap that card with any card in your area, then discard the replaced card. If you draw from the discard pile, you may discard that card (by turning over any card in your area) or you may exchange that card with any card in your area. If you draw a card from the deck, any other player can tap the table to indicate that they want that card. You can ignore the knock, or you can give them the card; in the latter case, they then replace a card from their area with this new card, taking the old card from their hand. You then take a card from their area and exchange it for a card from your area, discarding the replaced card. The other player then places the card from their hand into the hole you created when you took one of their cards.
Whenever you have three identical cards in a row or column - even a row that includes a card in the column furthest to your left! - you discard those cards from the game. Each time a player has all their cards face up, each other player takes an extra turn, and then the players add up the value of the cards in their area (which includes all the cards remaining in their neighbour's rightmost column). If the player who triggered the end of the turn does not have the lowest sum, his sum is doubled. The player with the lowest total score after three rounds wins.
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Contents of the box : 120 cards, 6 wooden counters, 1 rule book.
