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.
It doesn’t allow the skipped person to play a ‘Skip’ card to avoid being skipped. It still stacks, but for the person after the skipped person. Part of ‘Draw 2’ and ‘Wid Draw 4’ is skipping the next player. ‘Wild’ cards do not skip the next player.
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.
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.
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.
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.
First you stack +2. Then you stack +4 and +2. Next, whenever there’s a +n, everyone can throw a +n in. Logically this now goes for reverse too. And so on… it ends in a card fight.
Most people don’t hate actual Monopoly, they hate the house rules version of it. Rent Utilities go in the bank, Free Parking is just an empty space. If you don’t buy the property it goes to auction.
I still hate actual Monopoly because it’s all about fucking over everyone else. I don’t mind competitive over cooperative in a board game, but Monopoly pretty much always rewards asshole behavior.
Welcome to America! The game where the points don’t matter (if you’re rich), the rules are made up (if you’re rich), and grandpa swindling all the college funds is the entire point (to get rich).
Monopoly was literally designed to be terrible, it’s a sardonic statement against capitalism expressed as a game that’s meant to tire you out. The house rules definitely make it worse, but Monopoly isn’t a good game without them, or even intended to be.
Do you mind a quick elif on this? I don’t know spades and immediately got overwhelmed trying to look up these terms and research enough to know their context x.x
Before you play a round you guess how many of the 13 ‘books’ you will win. Books come from the single cycle where everyone throws out one card. The winner collects the 4 cards like a little book and count it as a point.
If you win more books than you guessed, you collect one sandbag for each book overguessed. Every x (usually 10?) sandbags and you get a permanent penalty against your total score.
Reneging is almost the opposite. If you win less than you guessed, you get a penalty instead of adding anything to your score that round.
They’re suggesting that if they guess first, they will purposely make their guess less books than they know they have (and collect sandbags) to hopefully trick their opponent to guess more. It can be easy for the last person who guesses to just subtract what’s been claimed from 13 for a good ballpark of where they should guess, so if there’s a lot left it’s easy to bite off more than you can chew.
You know what I’ve been playing spades since I was 9 and I’m as confused as you. Reneging means playing a card from the wrong suit, i.e. playing a spade even though hearts was led and you have hearts. This happens very rarely and it’s almost always a player error, and it’s almost never done in relation to the bid. There’s no strategy that involves reneging, it’s just a penalty when someone sees it happen. (Someone always sees it happen. It’s hard to renege without someone at the table knowing what cards should be left.)
It’s possible OP was talking about “setting” the other team, which means tricking the other team into bidding overconfidently so they fail to take enough tricks. (This results in a big score penalty for the team going set.) Sandbagging (deliberately underbidding) can definitely be used, and legally, to make the other team go set.
+4 can also go in a +2 but now only +4s can be player—you can’t go back to +2.
You can skip a skip, but then it skips two people. If the person who it lands on skips again, it skips three people, and so on. Fun to figure out when you’re all wasted.
I use the rule “face cards can interact with each other”.
You can add +2’s, you can throw in +4’s. All the normal rules apply still, so color matters. Throwing a +12 at someone is almost as amazing as them dropping a reverse to win. The only rules change beyond this is that skip changes from skip the next person to skip you drawing, thus passing it along.
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