Game play in Coloretto is simple: Either draw a card to play to a row, or take a row of cards to add them to your collection. A row can have at most three cards, so at some point everyone is forced to take a row. Once all the rows have been claimed, players start a new round, drawing or taking once again.
What are you trying to do with these cards? Collect huge sets - but only in three colors as every color beyond the third will cost you points. Jokers are highly-prized as they always match what you want, and +2 cards provide sure points, giving you a back-up plan if everything goes south in terms of the colors you're collecting.
Once only a few cards remain in the deck, the round ends and everyone tallies their score, choosing three colors of cards to score positively while any other colors count against you. Each color is scored using a triangular number system: the first card in a color is ±1 point, the second card is ±2 points, and so on. The player with the high score wins!
A two-player variant is included with some versions of Coloretto, with the only change being that rows can have only 1-3 cards placed in them, depending on the icons on the row cards.
The first versions of Coloretto contained an "unofficial" expansion for Knights (same publisher, same author). Depending on the version you purchased, you received 1, 8, or as many as 23 "Creepy Castle" cards. The 2006 version from ABACUSSPIELE includes the two-player variant cards and not the Creepy Castle cards.
The name for the game was subject of a competition -- the winner was Sebastian Herzog, member of the "Spuiratzn" gaming group, Munich.
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pravila za igranje na hrvatskom jeziku, 2-5 igraca
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Rules in Croatian language. Please let me know if you find any mistakes so I can correct them.
A double-sided 2.25x3.44" (small coloretto card size) rules reference for a 3-5 player game.
Simply print out the PDF (tell your printer not to scale the PDF for proper sizing), cut out the card and fold on the middle line.
2.5"x3.5" rules refresher "Cheat Sheet"
This is a card-sized (standard MtG CCG) "cheat sheet" with the key rules for the game. This card is meant for people familiar with the game but wants a quick refresher, especially about picky details that are easy to forget. Feel free to comment/critique for me to improve them.
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