Ligretto – A face-paced card game that plays up to 12 people

The Purple Pawn blog recently posted about a game I’ve seen before but didn’t know anything about called Ligretto. It sounds like a party card game that is fast-paced and fun. The unique thing about this game is that you can play it with up to 12 players. Other than Mafia (a.k.a. Werewolf), I don’t know of any other games that can play so many.

I definitely want to give this one a try. We’ve had a number of get-togethers lately where we wanted to be able to accommodate a large number of people in our game playing. It’s hard to find games that can play more than 5 or 6 players. There is one catch with Ligretto; you have to buy three packs of the game to get up to 12 players since each set alows 4 players each. There’s a blue, red, and green set and as far as I can tell there’s no major difference between the three.

Jodi actually knows how to play a similar party card game that can use generic rook or playing cards. I’m not sure how many players it can accommodate, but I’ll try to get her to write about it and teach everyone how to play.