44 Fun Facts About Uno

Which colour completes the four suits of a classic Uno deck: red, yellow, green and what?

Blue: classic Uno has only the four, but Uno Stacko adds a fifth, purple, for the wild blocks in its tower.

What does Uno Attack use in place of an ordinary draw pile?

A card launcher: instead of drawing, a player presses its button, and the machine may fire out a fistful of cards or none at all.

Uno Stacko swaps the cards for a tower of coloured blocks, much like which game?

Jenga: players pull out and restack blocks by colour or number, and whoever brings the tower down ends the round as the loser.

Uno is derived from which family of card games?

Crazy eights: inventor Merle Robbins kept arguing with his son over that game's rules, so he marked up a deck of his own to settle them.

When Uno is played for points, who scores at the end of each hand?

The player who went out: the winner collects points for every card left in rivals' hands, so being caught holding a 50-point Wild is costly.

In Uno, a Draw Two makes the next player pick up two cards and do what else?

Miss their turn: so in a two-player game the turn comes straight back to whoever played the card.

Who takes the first turn in a hand of Uno?

The player to the dealer's left: the 2022 rule sheet kept that seat first even as it stopped saying how the dealer is chosen.

Barber Merle Robbins first sold his invention, Uno, where?

His own shop: the Ohio barber sold the first decks from his barbershop, then sold the rights to a funeral-parlour owner for $50,000 plus a royalty on every pack.

What must an Uno player do when no card in their hand can be played?

Draw a card from the deck: a player may even choose to draw while holding a card that fits, a legal way of keeping it back for later.

What does the player of an ordinary Wild card get to choose in Uno?

The colour to be matched next: a Wild can be laid on any turn, even by someone holding a card that fits, and may simply name the colour already in play.

In Uno, what may you do with a newly drawn card that fits the pile?

Play it on the same turn: but nothing else, since no card already in the hand may be laid on a turn when one was drawn.

Uno entered the National Toy Hall of Fame in 2018 alongside which arcade game?

Pinball: with the Magic 8 Ball they made up the class of 2018, and the museum praised Uno as a game children can play against adults without feeling overmatched.

The first official Uno World Champion was crowned in 2021 in which city?

Las Vegas: players qualified through an online tournament on the Uno mobile app, and the best of them met in person there for a $50,000 final.

Uno's first world championship in 2021 marked which milestone?

50th anniversary: the game dates from 1971, when an Ohio barber devised it for his family, and the winner of the anniversary final took home $50,000.

A classic game of Uno is a race to what?

Five hundred points: newer rule sheets demote the points race to an optional extra and simply make the first player out of cards the winner.

In Uno, which card may legally be played on top of a red 7?

A yellow 7: a card has to match the top of the pile in colour, number or symbol, so any 7 fits a red 7 whatever its own colour.

Which number card appears only once per colour in an Uno deck?

Zero: every other number from 1 to 9 comes twice in each colour, which is why a colour has 19 numbered cards and not 20.

In Uno's partner version for four players, where does your teammate sit?

Directly opposite you: the hand ends as soon as either partner plays a last card, so a strong player can win it for a struggling teammate.

How many cards is each player dealt at the start of a hand of Uno?

Seven: a hand shrinks by one card a turn at best, so even a perfect run needs six plays before the famous one-card warning is due.

In which direction does play initially proceed in a hand of Uno?

Clockwise: but only to begin with, since a single action card can send play back the other way at any moment.

Officially, when may a Wild Draw Four be played in Uno?

When you hold no matching colour: a matching number or symbol doesn't count, and a player who bluffs gets away with it unless the next player objects.

What is the penalty for being caught failing to call "Uno" on your second-to-last card?

Draw two cards: the call exists to warn the table that someone is one card from winning, and any player at all may do the catching.

In Uno scoring, what is a leftover number card worth?

Face value: a 9 left in the hand costs nine points and a 1 just one, which makes the high numbers the ones to play first.

If a player goes out on a Draw Two in Uno, what does the next player do?

Take the penalty cards anyway: they are drawn before the hand is scored, so going out on a draw card leaves a rival's losing hand two cards heavier.

In 2019 Mattel startled players on Twitter by ruling which popular Uno move against the official rules?

Stacking draw cards: the game's own account spelled it out: a +4 has to be drawn in full by the player it lands on, and a +2 can't be added to pass six on.

Under Uno's Seven-O house rule, what happens when a 7 is played?

The player swaps hands with someone: the choice is theirs, so a 7 can steal the hand of whoever is closest to going out, while a 0 sends every hand one seat round.

What are Uno's blank Wild cards meant for?

Your own rules: the rule sheet says to write them on in pencil, which rubs out for the next game, and sets no limit but imagination and the other players' consent.

Modern Uno decks include one Wild card that gathers up every player's hand to do what?

Shuffle and re-deal them: dealing starts to the left of whoever played the card and runs until the pile is gone, so some players end up holding more cards than before.

Since Uno's 2022 rules, what happens if the first card flipped is an action or Wild card?

It is ignored and replaced: older rule sheets made the first player suffer an opening Skip or Draw Two before a single card had been played.

In 2017 Mattel released a version of Uno designed specifically for which players?

Colour-blind players: Uno ColorADD prints a small symbol on every card that stands for its colour, so a suit can be read without telling red from green.

Mattel launched a Braille edition of Uno in 2019 with which organisation?

National Federation of the Blind: every card carries braille dots in one corner, and its president called being able to play straight out of the box "a truly meaningful moment".

Which video game has a themed Uno deck with a special card named after one of its monsters?

Minecraft: the monster is the Creeper, and a player who draws its card must show it to the table and pick up three more.

What is special about the cards in Uno H2O?

Transparent and waterproof: the clear plastic cards shrug off water and dirt, so a game can be played beside the pool or even in it.

Which cards are missing altogether from the deck of Uno All Wild?

Number cards: every card in the tin is a Wild of some kind, and the plain Wild, a rarity in the classic deck, becomes the commonest card of all.

What is the name of the Uno spin-off released in February 2018?

Dos: the sequel doubles its parent's most famous rule, so a player has to shout the game's name on getting down to two cards.

In Uno H2O, what does a Wild Downpour card make every other player do?

Take extra cards: one or two each, as the card says, so a single card rains penalties on the whole table and not just on the next player.

In the early 2000s, Uno was licensed for which kind of casino game?

Slot machines: the family card game went onto the casino floor beside a Magic 8 Ball slot, in a range the maker branded "Famous Games".

In 2013 Mattel planned to turn Uno into what, with a $1 million prize?

TV game show: Mattel teamed up with a production company to develop two versions, a half-hour one with a $100,000 jackpot and an hour-long one worth $1 million.

Which rapper was eyed for the lead in the Uno heist movie announced in 2021?

Lil Yachty: he was developing the film as well, an action comedy set in Atlanta's hip-hop scene, and said he had played Uno since he was a child.

Judged by how it is won, Uno is which type of card game?

Shedding: the whole aim is to get rid of every card you hold, the opposite of games in which players collect tricks or sets.

Which publisher released the Uno video game for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in 2016?

Ubisoft: its edition lets each table switch house rules on or off before play, settling in a menu the arguments the card game is famous for.

What does the word "uno" mean in Spanish and Italian?

One: the name doubles as the warning a player must call on reaching a single card, so the game's own name is shouted in every hand played.

Under Uno's classic rules, how is the dealer of a hand chosen?

Highest drawn number card: every player cuts for the deal, and a Skip or any other action card counts for nothing, so the showiest cards in the deck can't win it.

In Uno, what happens when the draw pile runs out mid-hand?

The discards are reshuffled: Uno has no way of running out of cards, so a hand can only ever end when somebody plays a last one.