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44 free Uno trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Uno began in 1971 in a barbershop in Reading, Ohio, where Merle Robbins and his family mortgaged their house to print the first 5,000 decks. A funeral-parlour owner bought the rights for $50,000, ran the company from behind his funeral home, and two decades later sold the whole thing to Mattel. The game is now in the National Toy Hall of Fame and has a world champion. These 44 questions cover the history and the rules that families argue about: how many cards are in the deck, what a Wild Draw Four challenge costs, whether stacking Draw Twos is official (Mattel says no), what the Seven-O and Jump-In house rules do, and how the 2015, 2017 and 2022 rule changes altered the game. There are questions on the special editions too: the waterproof H2O deck, the Braille and colour-blind versions, the NFL fandom sets, the Dos spin-off, the slot machines and the heist movie that was announced with Lil Yachty. Easy questions cover colours and card counts; the expert tier asks about the printer in Maywood, the esports arena in Las Vegas and the scrapped million-dollar game show. Every answer is cited and explained.
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Q 01Which colour completes the four suits of a classic Uno deck: red, yellow, green and what?
Blue
Blue: classic Uno has only the four, but Uno Stacko adds a fifth, purple, for the wild blocks in its tower.
Q 02What does Uno Attack use in place of an ordinary draw pile?
A card launcher
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.
Q 03Uno Stacko swaps the cards for a tower of coloured blocks, much like which game?
Jenga
Jenga: players pull out and restack blocks by colour or number, and whoever brings the tower down ends the round as the loser.
Q 04Uno is derived from which family of card games?
Crazy eights
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.
Q 05When Uno is played for points, who scores at the end of each hand?
The player who went out
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.
Q 06In Uno, a Draw Two makes the next player pick up two cards and do what else?
Miss their turn
Miss their turn: so in a two-player game the turn comes straight back to whoever played the card.
Q 07Who takes the first turn in a hand of Uno?
The player to the dealer's left
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.
Q 08Barber Merle Robbins first sold his invention, Uno, where?
His own shop
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.
Q 09What must an Uno player do when no card in their hand can be played?
Draw a card from the deck
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.
Q 10What does the player of an ordinary Wild card get to choose in Uno?
The colour to be matched next
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.
Q 11In Uno, what may you do with a newly drawn card that fits the pile?
Play it on the same turn
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.
Q 12Uno entered the National Toy Hall of Fame in 2018 alongside which arcade game?
Pinball
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.
Q 13The first official Uno World Champion was crowned in 2021 in which city?
Las Vegas
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.
Q 21Officially, when may a Wild Draw Four be played in Uno?
When you hold no matching colour
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.
Q 22What is the penalty for being caught failing to call "Uno" on your second-to-last card?
Draw two cards
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.
Q 23In Uno scoring, what is a leftover number card worth?
Face value
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.
Q 14Uno's first world championship in 2021 marked which milestone?
50th anniversary
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.
Q 15A classic game of Uno is a race to what?
Five hundred points
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.
Q 16In Uno, which card may legally be played on top of a red 7?
A yellow 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.
Q 17Which number card appears only once per colour in an Uno deck?
Zero
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.
Q 18In Uno's partner version for four players, where does your teammate sit?
Directly opposite you
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.
Q 19How many cards is each player dealt at the start of a hand of Uno?
Seven
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.
Q 20In which direction does play initially proceed in a hand of Uno?
Clockwise
Clockwise: but only to begin with, since a single action card can send play back the other way at any moment.
Q 24If a player goes out on a Draw Two in Uno, what does the next player do?
Take the penalty cards anyway
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.
Q 25In 2019 Mattel startled players on Twitter by ruling which popular Uno move against the official rules?
Stacking draw cards
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.
Q 26Under Uno's Seven-O house rule, what happens when a 7 is played?
The player swaps hands with someone
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.
Q 27What are Uno's blank Wild cards meant for?
Your own rules
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.
Q 28Modern Uno decks include one Wild card that gathers up every player's hand to do what?
Shuffle and re-deal them
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.
Q 29Since Uno's 2022 rules, what happens if the first card flipped is an action or Wild card?
It is ignored and replaced
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.
Q 30In 2017 Mattel released a version of Uno designed specifically for which players?
Colour-blind 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.