Richelieu

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Description

A French-language crossword card game published in Quebec. Each player starts with 10 cards (or 7 if six people play), each with a letter on it. On your turn you play cards forming a word onto the table; after the first turn the word must fit with the others in a crossword fashion similar to Scrabble. Instead of playing a word, you may discard a card and draw from the deck or discard pile. When someone plays all the cards from their hand, the other players add up the points remaining in their hand (5 points per consonant, 10 per vowel, 15 for the wild Richelieu card), and add it to their total. When someone reaches an agreed-on total (e.g. 100 points), the player with the fewest points wins.