Permutu (1999)

Permutu is a pure abstract strategy game with random setup. The goal is to collect sets of tiles. There are 78 tiles, each with one of 26 symbols and one of 3 colors. Each symbol appears on 3 tiles, in 3 different colors. During setup, 3 parallel rows of tiles are randomly laid out, one row for each color, creating columns with 1 tile of each color. During play, players will take tiles, taking turns in clockwise order. You can take a single tile from a column with 3 tiles, if no one (including you) already has a tile with that tile's symbol. You can take an entire column (of 3 or fewer tiles), if you have tiles which match the symbols on all of that column's tiles, or all but one of its tiles. If you have no move, pass. Once everyone has no move, the game is over. Score 3 points for each triple collected with the same symbol, and 1 point for each pair collected with the same symbol.