Ligretto

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Ligretto

Box of Ligretto 'Green Pack' playing cards
Publishers	Schmidt-Spiele and Playroom Entertainment
Publication	1988
Genres	Card game
Players	2-12
Setup time	< 1 minute
Playing time	Approximately 5-10 minutes per round, 30+ minutes per game
Chance	Medium
Age range	8 and up
Skills	Hand-eye coordination, reaction time, counting

Ligretto is a card game for two to twelve players. The game in its current form was designed by Michael Michaels and published in 1988 by the German company Rosengarten Spiele. Since 2000 the game has been published by Schmidt-Spiele of Berlin, Germany. A blue version of the game has been published by Playroom Entertainment in North America and other English-speaking countries since 2009.^[1]

The objective of the game is to get rid of your cards faster than the other players by discarding them in the middle of the table.

The game is based on and is similar to Dutch Blitz.^[2] Both card games 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. ^[3]