Match & Collect

every move this game

draw pile

discard

a bigger screen, please

Match & Collect puts a lot on the table at once — two opponents, their melds, the piles and your hand. It needs room to breathe.

Try it on a tablet or a computer. It is worth the wait.

draw · lay down · one wonder · discard

Melds

The extra 10 is for each card beyond the base size, not for every card in the set.

mirror pair 2 cards — same colour and symbol	10
symbol set 3 or more cards sharing a symbol	30 4 cards 40 5 cards 50
colour set 5 or more cards of one colour	55 6 cards 65 7 cards 75
rainbow set 4 — same symbol, all four colours. A symbol set can grow into one, and keeps growing.	80 60 with a legendary +10 each extra card
location group 3 or 4 from the same place	70 4 cards 100
wonder set 3 or 4 wonders of the same kind	70 4 cards 100

Wonder cards — one per turn, and that includes the gate

legendary — substitutes for one card in a symbol set, colour set or rainbow. +10 in a symbol or colour set; in a rainbow it does not add, the rainbow is simply worth 60 rather than 80. Max one per meld, never in a location group or mirror pair.

gate — your turn ends at once, with no discard, and a fresh one begins.
Because nothing is discarded, the pile is exactly as you left it — so the card you could not reach is still there. One wonder a turn, so a gate has to be that wonder.

guide — look at the top 4 of the deck, keep 2.

messenger — say a place out loud, any place, with no need to hold two. Anyone holding cards from there gives you all of them. If nobody does, draw a card — a spent card earns that, a free ask does not.

shelter — choose one: nothing left in your hand costs you at round end, wonders included; or take any one place card out of the discard pile.

offering — choose one: take up to 2 cards from anywhere in the discard, wonders included, and give the same number back; or trade as many cards as you like back into the discard and draw the same number fresh.

Scoring

going out	+25
card left in hand	−5
wonder left in hand	−10
shelter down	hand free wonders too

Your hand

Tap a card to select it, tap again to deselect.
Lay down handles everything — a new meld, or adding to one you already have. If the cards fit in more than one place, it asks which.
Drag a card to move it — group your colours, keep a location together, whatever helps you see it. The order is yours and it sticks.

Round ends when

Someone discards their last card, or
The draw pile runs out — that player finishes their turn first

Taking the discard

You may only take the top discard if you can use it this turn — in a new meld or added to one of yours. Otherwise draw from the deck.

Three rules people argue about

A card belongs to one meld only.
You may add to your own melds on later turns.
You may not add to anyone else's.

First to 300 points wins

reshuffle the discard when the deck runs out (variation — longer rounds) you may only take the discard if you can use it this turn (variation — much faster rounds)

Opponent speed

currently watchable