Yellow Brick Road

In Oz, Dorothy just wants to get home — and you want her out of the way as well so that you can finish building the yellow brick road! In Yellow Brick Road, each player starts with an imaginary 3x3 grid in front of themselves, and they place a face-down winged monkey token above each column and to the right of each row. They each draw one card from the deck. On a turn, you draw a card, then your opponent flips down any face-up monkey by your play area, then turns a different monkey face up. Place one of the two cards in your hand in an empty space in your grid that isn't in the same row/column as the face-up monkey. Two cards have special powers; one lets you swap two cards in your grid, and the other grants monkey immunity on your subsequent turn. Once each player has placed nine cards, the game ends. Each card is worth as many points as the total number of cards in the same road segment, so an isolated road segment is worth 1 point, a road segment on two cards is worth 4 points (2 per card), etc. Whoever has the most points wins.