Ligretto Junior features the same gameplay as Ligretto – with players trying to empty their stack of cards as quickly as possible by playing the cards onto stacks in the center of the table – but with only three suits of cards in each player's deck (as opposed to four suits in the normal Ligretto decks). As a result, Ligretto Junior allows for up to five players in a game instead of only four; what's more, while Ligretto Junior cannot be combined with other Ligretto games in order to allow for more players to compete at the same time, it can be combined with different versions of itself, which are often themed with a different series of cartoon characters.