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Ligretto
Summary
Ligretto is a card game for two to twelve players. The object of the game is to get rid of all your cards faster than the other players, similar to Uno, by discarding them in the middle of the table. Instead of taking turns, all players play simultaneously. The game in its current form was published in 1988 by the German company Rosengarten Spiele, designed by Michael Michaels. An earlier version of the game was released in the early 1960s. Since 2000, the game has been published by Schmidt-Spiele of Berlin, Germany, while Playroom Entertainment has published the game for North America and other English-speaking countries.
The game is similar to Dutch Blitz, which is based on the original Ligretto from the 1960s. Both Ligretto and Dutch Blitz use specially printed cards, but feature gameplay almost identical to Nerts, which is played with standard playing cards, and is in turn based on Canfield, a variant of the classic Klondike Solitaire.
The game uses a special deck of 160 cards. Each card's face is red, green, yellow, or blue and is numbered from 1 to 10. Each player gets 40 cards (ten of each color), which have a distinctive design on the reverse, unique to that player.
Before starting a game, the players shuffle their cards and put ten cards into a "stack" face up on the table. Three cards (four cards in a three-player game, five cards in a two-player game) are laid out face up next to this stack; these are called the "row". The remaining cards are kept in the player's hand.
The game starts when a player shouts "Ligretto!" and players simultaneously discard cards in the middle of the table, building colored piles in ascending numerical order according to color, and only starting new piles with a '1' card (placed anywhere near the middle of the table). New piles can be started anytime a '1' card becomes available to a player. Turns are quick, and slow players will miss opportunities to place cards as faster players add to the pile before others can react. Near-ties commonly occur among players discarding the same number card on a pile.
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