Nine Cards of Winter

A tile matcher with a hand of nine. You pull holiday tiles off the board into a row, three of a kind clear, and the game ends the moment the row is full — so every pick is a bet that the third copy of something is reachable before the space runs out. Tiles hide under other tiles, which is where the planning comes in. Nine Cards of Winter is the small, mean version of a genre that is usually relaxing, and the better for it.