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Dobble

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Dobble is a matching card game in which players race to spot the single symbol shared between any two cards from a deck of fifty five, each printed with eight different symbols chosen so that exactly one symbol always matches between any pair. Sold in North America as Spot It!, the game traces its concept to an original 1976 design by Jacques Cottereau, with the modern version developed by Denis Blanchot and first published in France in 2009 by Blue Orange Games before an English language release followed in the United Kingdom in 2011; Asmodee took over publishing from 2015 onward. Suited to two to eight players, its fast paced pattern recognition play helped make it the best selling game in the United Kingdom in both 2018 and 2019.

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Card Game 1
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Player Count
Large Group or Variable 1
Origin Year
2009 1
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1. Dobble (Wikipedia)
  • Lead sentence
    Dobble is a game in which players have to find symbols in common between two cards.
  • Infobox 'players' field: 2-8
  • Article text
    Dobble was released in France in 2009, and in the UK and North America in 2011 under Blue Orange Games.
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