Dutch Blitz
It's from 1960, before you were born.
- Maker
- Dutch Blitz Games
- Type
- Card game (speed)
- Debuted
- 1960
- Note
- Pennsylvania Dutch roots; 'a vonderful goot game'
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About
As of 2026, it's 66 years old.
Dutch Blitz blitzed onto the scene around 1960 out of Pennsylvania Dutch country, a frantic, real-time card game where there are no turns — everyone plays at once, slapping cards down as fast as their hands and eyes will allow, racing to empty their 'Blitz' pile. The box famously calls it 'a vonderful goot game.'
It's controlled chaos: a loud, fast, hand-slapping scramble that gets genuinely competitive and a little dangerous as players lunge for the same center piles. A favorite of large families and church groups, it's far more cutthroat than its folksy branding suggests.
Frantic, turnless, and deceptively cutthroat, Dutch Blitz is the speed-card classic that turns a quiet family table into a hand-slapping free-for-all.
