Ligretto – Red

Ligretto – Red

A fast card game that should not be missing from any collection. Impressive, fun and very easy! All players simultaneously try to get rid of as many cards of the same color as they can, from 1 to 10. You need to be fast, smart and have good reflexes!

More specifically

In Ligretto, each player has their own deck of forty cards, with cards 1-10 in four colors and a unique symbol on the back to identify which cards are theirs. At the start of each round, each player places 3-5 cards (depending on the number of players) face up in front of them to create their row, places an open pile of ten cards, seeing only the top card, next to their row to form their Ligretto pile, and keeps the remaining cards in their hand face up.

Playing simultaneously, each player tries to empty their Ligretto pile. If a player has a 1 card on the top of any face-up pile, they play it to the center of the table. If they have a 2 card of the same color as any 1 in the center of the table, they can place the 2 on top of the 1. All cards in the central piles must be played in ascending order and must be the same color.

If a player cannot play anything, they can reveal cards from their hand pile, counting them in groups of three, and then place them face up, revealing only the top card. They can play this top card onto a central pile, provided the rules for doing so are met.

Once a player empties their Ligretto pile, the round ends. Each player scores 1 point for each of their cards in the central piles and loses 2 points for each card remaining in their Ligretto pile. In some versions of the game, the player with the highest score wins - in other versions, the players gather all the cards and play one more round, with the first player to reach 99 points winning.

A variant of the rules for Ligretto allows a player to play cards from their Ligretto pile or the cards they have in their hand onto the cards in their row, but only if the numbers are in descending order and the colors of adjacent cards are not the same.

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