Ligretto

Ligretto is a card game for two to four players (with several different colored packages to twelve players) who are trying to quickly lay their cards on common pile in the middle (depending sorted by 1-10 and the color). Since all players may take the same time, the game demands reaction rate. The game was published in 1988 ( initially under Legretto ) at Rose Garden Games ( Michaels KG ); since 2000 Ligretto sold by Schmidt Spiele.

History

Robert Hülsemann describes in The Big Book of Games, Leipzig, 1927, the rules according to a nearly identical card game with standard sheet called Raging devil. As an ancestor and the North American game Dutch Blitz is concerned. Dutch Blitz is now especially popular among the Pennsylvania Germans, such as the Amish and goes back to the German emigrants Werner Ernst George Muller, who invented the game in 1959 to provide a better understanding of color figures and children.

Game History

Each player receives at the beginning of the game 40 cards ( 10 cards of the colors red, yellow, green and blue), which are provided on the back with a special icon for this player. These are mixed to match the beginning and 10 are designated as open pile on the table. In addition, there are 3 cards next to each other with the game face up. The rest of the cards you keep hidden in your hand.

The aim of the game is to remove the stack of 10 cards and to reach as many points.

Cards you put in ascending numerical sequence sorted by color in the middle.

If you have taken a map of the three face up cards, one bridge the gap from tens stack fills up. Can you put a map of the place cards, searches you cards in his hand by always uncovers every third card, which you can then place it in the middle according to the rules.

Once you have played the numeric stack, you call " Ligretto Stop! " And thus ending the game round.

The cards in the middle are now counted and each player is given on the basis of the mark on the back of his cards from the mid- point each.

Not played cards from the ten stacks are deducted twice in point counting.

Good Ligretto players try to play as many cards as possible hand in the middle and still remove the tens pile in front of all the other players, because they then get a deduction depending on how many cards they have left in the decimal stack.

Awards

The Working Committee Children's Toys eV has its award awarded to Ligretto as recommendable game play well.

Variants

Schmidt Spiele has become the Ligretto variants Ligretto Junior ( 2001), Ligretto ² (2004), football Ligretto (2006), Ligretto Speed ​​Machine (2007), Bibi Ligretto (2007), Ligretto SpongeBob (2009), Ligretto Kim Possible (2009 ) and dice Ligretto (2009) brought out.