

Return card to the deck, shuffle, flip top card to start discard pile May be legally played only if the player has no cards of the current color (see Penalties). Player declares the next color to be matched next player in sequence draws four cards and misses a turn. Wild Draw Four/Draw Four Wild (+4 and wild) Player to dealer's left declares the first color to be matched and plays a card in it

Player declares the next color to be matched (may be used on any turn even if the player has matching color current color may be chosen as the next to be matched) Player to dealer's left draws two cards and misses a turn

Next player in sequence draws two cards and misses a turn Order of play switches directions (clockwise to counterclockwise, or vice versa)ĭealer plays first play proceeds counterclockwise Play initially proceeds clockwise around the table.Īction or Wild cards have the following effects:
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Robbins later sold the rights to Uno to a group of friends headed by Robert Tezak, a funeral parlor owner in Joliet, Illinois, for $50,000 plus royalties of 10 cents per game. He sold it from his barbershop at first, and local businesses began to sell it as well. When his family and friends began to play more and more, he spent $8,000 to have 5,000 copies of the game made. You know, there will probably be lots of opportunities to have your grandchildren over to play this card game in the next little while - a Halloween party, at Thanksgiving, during the Christmas holidays, New Year’s EVe.The game was originally developed in 1971 by Merle Robbins in Reading, Ohio, a suburb of Cincinnati. Here are directions that you can print up to use while you are playing the game. The winner is the person with the lowest score. (You add up the players’ scores after each round.)Ĭontinue until you’ve played all of the number of rounds that you have decided upon. The remaining other players get one more turn.

Play continues until one player has all of her cards turned over. If she draws a card and doesn’t want to use it, she places it in her personal discard pile.Īfter she has finished her turn, play goes to the person on her left. That person can take a card from the community draw pile or from any other player’s discard pile.
