| 👨👩👧👦 | Players: 2-5 |
| ⏳ | Time: 30m |
| 🎂 | Ages: 8+ |
| ⚙️ | Mechanisms: Card Drafting |
Colour Colour Colour Colour Colour Chameleon!
We’ve been playing Coloretto from designer Michael Schacht. It’s a card game for 2-5 players where you try to gather the best sets of Chameleon cards.
On your turn you have two options. You can either draw a card from the deck and add it to one of the pools on the table, or as a once per round action you can collect all of the cards from a single pool. The more you have of each colour the more they are worth, however only your best three sets score, and any other colours you’ve collected along the way cost you points.
At two players the rules are a bit different. With more players each pool can hold up to three cards, but with this variant they can hold one, two and three cards respectively. You also reduce the number of colours used from seven down to five, making it easier to build good sets but also making the chance of losing a lot of points higher.
Coloretto is small and simple, yet still manages to pack a lot of fun into a tiny box. What makes it work is the tension of trying to get as many good cards as you can each round, while making things difficult for your opponent at the same time.
You don’t want to make it too obvious which pool you’re going for, as that will only tempt the other players to mess with it, so you need to be clever about what you place and when. At the same time, you’re trying to bait the other player into taking specific cards, leaving you free to grab the ones you want.
We’re keen to try it with more players, as we felt that it can get a little predicable at 2p when the players know each other’s styles as well as we do, but that may just be an ‘us’ thing! While we love spending hours with a bigger game, it’s not always possible and that’s where quick, fun fillers like Coloretto come in.
You can see the original post on Instagram here and if you are interested you can find out more about the game on the Rio Grande website!
The copy of Coloretto used for this review was provided to A Tale of Two Meeples by Rio Grande Games
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