
International Games became part of Mattel in 1992. In 1972 he sold the rights to International Games for $50,000 plus 10 cents royalty per copy. Merle Robbins was a barber and he sold the first 5,000 UNO decks from his barber shop. UNO was developed by Merle Robbins in 1971, and is now property of Mattel. Wild card and Wild Draw Four card: 50 points.Draw Two card, Skip card and Reverse card: 20 points.He scores points based on the cards that are held by the other players at the end of the round: The first player that gets rid of their last card wins the round. If you don’t press this button, your opponents can do it instead and you will have to draw two cards.Ībove the 1 Button there is a little square indicating the current color of play. When you have only one card left, you have to press the 1 Button to be able to finish the game in the next round. If the drawn card can be played, the player is allowed to play it immediately. Draw the top card from the deck by pressing the face-down stack in the middle of the table.Play a Wild card or a Wild Draw Four card.Play a card that matches the top card in the discard pile in terms of color, number, or symbol.The playing direction at the start of the game is clockwise, but it can be changed during the game with the Reverse Card.ĭuring a turn, a player has three options: The player to the left of the dealer starts. The top card is flipped and is the start of the discard pile. The remaining cards are placed face-down in the middle of the table. DealĪt the start of a round each player is dealt 7 cards, one at a time. The first player that gets rid of all their cards wins the round. The goal in UNO is to get rid of your cards by matching color or number with the card on the table. Allows to choose the color that has to be played.


Each number appears twice in a color, and there are four colors (red, green, blue, yellow). Number cards (80 in deck, 20 of each color)Ĭards with a number from 0 to 9.

In total there are 108 cards in a UNO deck. UNO is played with 2 or more players using a custom simplified card deck.
