The Game I Played

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Recently I played a game called Ligretto, the object of the game was to get rid of all your cards before everyone else. The Game supports up to 12 players and takes a relatively short time to play; around 15 minutes.

The game itself is very simple and as a result uses very few rules. The rules that do exist are as follows:

1) Each player gets 40 cards, ten of each of the four colours (red, green, yellow, and blue).
2) Players shuffle their cards and place 10 of their cards facedown in front of them along with three cards           placed next to it face-up.
3) Now the game begins where players simultaneously discard cards into the middle of the table in accordance to their colour and rising numerical order.
4) The goal is to get rid of all your cards in the 10 cards "stack" you placed in front of you via the three cards you placed face up. It is these cards you discard into the middle.
5) Once on of these 3 cards is discarded it is replaced by the top card in your 10 card "stack"
6) First to discard all their cards from their "stack" wins!

*if you cannot discard any of the 3 cards in front of you then you may look at every third card from your hand and discard from there only until you are able to discard from your "stack" again.

I very much liked the simple system of rules and its lightning fast pace which kept the game exciting. Though i disliked how even though you were "competing" against other players there is little to no interaction between the players. I would have designed that aspect a little differently, implementing some sort of system that allowed a player to directly influence the other players cards such as the use if "special" cards that bestow certain powers to their owners. But then again, the implementation of such a system would effect the simplicity of the game as it would require additional rules and regulations.

Either way, the game was fun and I look forward to playing it again with a group of friends.