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Coloretto (2003)

Average Rating: 7.00/10
Board Game Rank: 264
Family Game Rank: 46
Information
Designer
Artist
Publisher
Year Published
2003
# of Players
2 − 5
User Suggested # of Players
Best with 4 players
Recommended with 3, 4, 5 players
(143 voters) [poll]
Playing Time
30 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages
8 and up
User Suggested Ages
6 and up
(38 voters) [poll]
Language Dependence
No necessary in-game text
(62 voters) [poll]
Honors
Subdomain
(102 voters) [vote]
Category
Mechanic
Expansion
Expands
Family
Primary Name
Coloretto
Alternate Names
Kameleon
Χαμαιλέοντες
Колоретто
コロレット
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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.

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Designer's Home Page & Newsletter:

  • Zooloretto.com (text in German, English, Dutch, Hungarian, Spanish, Swedish)

Awards

Components:

  • 88 Cards:
    • 63 Color Cards (9 x 7 Colors)
    • 10 "+2" Cards
    • 1 "Last Round" Card
    • 3 Jokers
    • 5 Row Cards
    • 5 Summary Cards
    • 1 Blank Card
  • 1 Rule Booklet

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Trivia

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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Coloretto
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German 2012 edition
Publisher: ABACUSSPIELE
Artist: Michael Schacht (I)
Year: 2012
Size: 2-deck card box (e.g. Coloretto)
German
Release Date:  2012
Unreleased
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Coloretto
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Grow Jogos e Brinquedos Brazilian Edition
Publisher: Grow Jogos e Brinquedos
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Year: 2011
Size: 2-deck card box (e.g. Coloretto)
Portuguese
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Polish edition
Publisher: G3 Poland
Artist: Michael Schacht (I)
Year: 2010
Size: 2-deck card box (e.g. Coloretto)
Polish
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Coloretto
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Rio Grande Revised Edition
Publisher: Rio Grande Games
Artist: Michael Schacht (I)
Year: 2009
Product Code: RIO226
Size: 3.80 x 4.80 x 0.90 inches
0.40 pounds
English
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Baltic edition
Publisher: Brain Games
Artist: Michael Schacht (I)
Year: 2009
Size: 2-deck card box (e.g. Coloretto)
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1 Coloretto Croatian rules
pravila za igranje na hrvatskom jeziku, 2-5 igraca
2011-12-22
1 Coloretto Chinese Rules
Coloretto Chinese Rules Version 2 變色龍 中文(正體)規則 自製彩色中文規則說明書 含基本、擴充、變體規則 較前一版多了 The Limit Cards 擴充的規則 ©2011台東桌遊同樂會 Finhisky 著作權聲明 僅供個人使用者自行下載參閱,禁止轉讓、散佈、商業使用或其他用途。
2011-09-11
1 Coloretto Tuckbox
Coloretto Tuckbox
2011-08-19
0 Rules Translation to Portuguese
Rules translation to portuguese (based on the german version) - Tradução das Regras para Português (baseado na versão alemã) - Version 1.0
2011-02-09
0 Coloretto Expansions Korean Rulebook
It contains: Extra Cards (2004), for Two Players (2006), Two New Summary Cards (2004), Limit Cards (2009).
2011-02-06
9 Coloretto Card-Sized Rules Summary
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.
2010-06-07
11 Coloretto 2.5"x3.5" rules refresher "Cheat Sheet"
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.
2010-04-19
2 Coloretto Dutch Rules (New version, playable for 2)
Dutch translation of the rules Nederlandse vertaling van de spelregels
2010-03-09
7 Coloretto_Spanish color rules
Spanish Rules in color
2010-02-07
4 Coloretto - Polskie Zasady [Polish rules]
Zasady po polsku.
2010-01-27
Statistics
Board Game Rank: 264
Family Game Rank: 46
Num Ratings: 7642
Average Rating: 7.00
Standard Deviation: 1.13
Num Views: 203989
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Avg. Game Weight: 1.3
Fans: 63
Personal Comments: 2540
Users Owning: 8443
Users Wanting: 175
Users Trading: 126 [find trade matches]
Has Parts For Trade: 1
Want Parts In Trade: 3
Price History: View
Total Plays: 38999
Plays This Month: 36
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