Ada's Library

Your goal in Ada's Library - first published as Phoenix - is to arrange all of the books in your personal display in an order that matches the books in the "master display".

The game includes larger "master" book cards in a six colors, as well as smaller books in these six colors. To set up, each player draws ten books from the bag, then places them in a row in front of themselves in the order drawn. Shuffle the six master cards, then lay them out in a row, e.g., red, light blue, gray, brown, yellow, dark blue. Shuffle the deck of action cards, with each player getting a hand of five cards.

On a turn, either discard a card from your hand (ignoring its effect) or play a card from your hand. Cards will:

Swap the position of two books in your display, with the number of spaces between these books being specified.

Move a book in your display a specified number of spaces either left or right, but never past the end of your display.

Move a book to either end of your display.