Ligretto
| Ligretto | |
|---|---|
 Four player league game |
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| Game data | |
| author | Michael Michaels |
| publishing company |
Rose Garden Games (1988), Schmidt Games (2000) |
| Publishing year | 1988, 2000 |
| Art | Card game |
| Teammates | 2 to 4 (up to 12) |
| Duration | 5-10 minutes |
| Age | from 10 years on |
Ligretto is a card game for two to four players (with several different colored packages for up to twelve players) who try to place their cards as quickly as possible on common stacks in the middle (each from 1–10 and sorted by color). Since all players can lay down at the same time, the game demands reaction speed . The game was published in 1988 (initially under the name Legretto ) by Rosengarten Spiele (Michaels KG); since 2000 Ligretto has been distributed by Schmidt Spiele .
history
In The Great Book of Games , Leipzig, 1927, Robert Hülsemann describes a card game with a standard hand that is almost identical in terms of the rules and called the Rasender Teufel . The North American game Dutch Blitz can also be considered an ancestor . Dutch Blitz is now particularly popular among Pennsylvania Germans and Amish , and goes back to the German emigrant Werner Ernst George Müller, who invented the game in 1959 to give children a better understanding of numbers and colors.
Course of the game
At the beginning of the game, each player receives 40 cards (10 each of the colors red, yellow, green and blue), which are marked on the back with a special symbol for this player. These are shuffled at the start of the game and 10 are placed on the table in an open pile . There are 3 cards next to each other with the game side up. You keep the remaining cards face down in your hand .
The aim of the game is to clear the pile with the 10 cards and to score as many points as possible.
Cards are placed in the center in ascending order of numbers according to color.
If you have taken a card from the 3 open cards, you fill the gap from the pile of ten. If you cannot place any of the table cards, you search your hand cards by always turning over every third card, which you can then place in the middle according to the rules.
As soon as you have played the stack of ten, you shout "Ligretto stop!" And thus end the game round.
The cards in the middle are now counted and each player receives one point for each of his cards from the middle based on the marking on the back. Unplayed cards from the pile of ten are deducted twice when counting the points .
Good Ligretto players try to play as many cards in hand as possible and still clear the pile of ten before all other players, as they then get a deduction depending on how many cards they have left in the pile of ten.
Awards
The Working Committee for Children's Play + Toys eV awarded Ligretto the award spiel gut as a recommended game .
variants
Schmidt Spiele now has the ligretto variants Ligretto Junior (2001), Ligretto² (2004), Fußball Ligretto (2006), Bibi Blocksberg Ligretto (2006), Ligretto Speed Machine (2007), Bibi Blocksberg Ligretto (2007), Ligretto SpongeBob (2009 ), Ligretto Kim Possible (2009) and Würfel-Ligretto (2009).
There is a very similar game in South Africa called Wi-Jo-Ka-Pre . The name of the game is composed of the first letters of the cities of Windhoek , Johannesburg , Cape Town and Pretoria .
Web links
- Ligretto (rose garden games) in the Luding games database
- Ligretto (Schmidt Spiele) in the Luding games database
- Dutch Blitz / Ligretto in the board game database BoardGameGeek (English)
- Instructions and online game in the board game world (requires Java)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Legretto in the game database Luding
- ↑ Summary of the rules of the game. (No longer available online.) In: dutchblitz.de/. Archived from the original on September 4, 2013 ; accessed on October 29, 2013 (Dutch Blitz instructions). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Dutch Blitz with Roland G. Hülsmann
- ↑ The story of the game. (No longer available online.) PoltConsultik eU, archived from the original on February 22, 2013 ; Retrieved September 19, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Excellent board games for younger children (3 to 7 years) ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF) for example spiel gut (25th edition)
- ^ Wi-Jo-Ka-Pre. Retrieved November 19, 2012 .
- ↑ Wijokapre - Ligretto in African. Retrieved November 19, 2012 .
