Uno sucks. Skip Bo is the ultimate strategy count em up card game.
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I'm not even sure where the official rules end and where the house rules begin and a quick Google search didn't find anything for me either, but I think that's stupid (no +2 on a +2) and it runs counter to how the rest of the game is played (unless I'm also going off of other house rules, I'm not clear on what the "official" rules are).
So the main mechanic of the UNO is matching cards, whether it's by text/symbol, or by color. I can play a green 2 on a red 2, because the text/number/symbol matches. I can also play a blue 'Skip' on a yellow 'Skip' or a green 'Reverse' on a yellow 'Reverse' or I can match them up by color, the whole point is that you're matching things up because that's how the color cards work. The black cards Wild and Draw 4 work a little differently, that's understood (for the most part), those you can't play unless you have no other option.
Why then is it that the 'Draw 2' cards are given a special place, why even have color versions of those cards in the first place unless you're trying to confuse players? If they had wanted them to behave differently, they should've made them black-bordered and/or multi-colored like the Wild and Draw 4 cards, that would let people know, "Oh hey, these have different rules." Instead, they're made to look like all the other color cards and then the UNO Industrial Complex says, "No, you can't actually use these the same ways as every other card, you're an idiot for thinking that." The reason so many people "screw up" this rule is because they're playing the game consistently and they're applying the main mechanic as it should be applied.
This is generally referring to the practice of allowing a player to play a +2 to avoid the penalty and stack it for the next player to draw 4 cards. That has never been part of the rules.
It is legal for player A to plays a +2, player B draws two (their turn getsskipped), player C plays a +2.
You cannot play a +2 on a +2
Sounds like the Pauli Exclusion Principle applied to cards.
If we can't keep adding +X cards to the rotation until one poor fool is left drawing 183 cards then what even is the point of playing Uno?
You realise the first thing that came to mind is there are +2 cards and +4 cards so why would anyone end up drawing an odd number of cards?
Because it's a joke.
Because after being forced to draw 182, you still don't have anything to play.
Or you're just shit at counting
Uno is just a shit version of the dutch game Pesten, which in turn is more fun if you shuffle 4 packs of cards together for larger groups.
Thanks for this, I've added this to my short list of card games to play. I'm gonna try it with some friends tonight. I like Uno well enough, but not enough to own it. Now I can play a better version whenever I want.
I'm curious, what other card games do you enjoy?
I'm in Michigan USA, so off the top of my head end in rough order of preference, I enjoy hearts, euchre, cribbage, egyptian ratscrew, kings in the corner.
I'm not fond of pinochle, or hand and foot. There are probably others I can't think of at the moment.
And of course not mentioned are kids games like go fish, etc etc.
Yeah I was going to say, I remember someone I know buying an Uno set and it turned out to basically be a game we already played with normal cards that cost £1 a pack.
Doesn't the official uno online app allow for +2 stacking?
Yes it does, but it's a "custom" rule
i played a game where we had a rule that skip cards could stack.
while being skipped, if you have a skip card, you could play it instead of being skipped. skipping your skip. the next person would be skipped instead, continuing the cycle.
I brought an official Uno deck and it comes with blank Wild Cards where you can write in your own house rules. It also came with a 'Swap Cards' card that let's the holder take another player's cards.
If you make your own rules you may end up in:
What a great video, thanks for the reminder. Will have to rewatch.
No one has ever played Mouse Trap or Operation and followed the rules.
What are these even for?
Wait, operation has money and cards? Since fucking when?
Right?
The fun of mousetrap is spending an hour setting it up, finding out you're missing one crucial piece of tiny plastic and trying (and failing) to set it off anyway. The game board is just there for stability.
mouse trap is not the same game i remember from when i was a kid. it is a dumbed down piece of shit now.
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