by Jakob Dylan

Created on: July 14, 2009   Last Updated: July 18, 2009

The card game Uno has been with us since 1971. It first started from Merle Robins, which he invented to solve an argument to the rules of Crazy Eights, which is also a card game. Eventually, Merle Robins had died. Mattel later on gained rights to Uno.

In Uno, the deck will consist of 4 different colors. Those colors are, red, green, blue, and yellow. Each color should have 3 "action cards". These action cards do certain things, Skip, Reverse, and Draw Two. Skip will basically make you pick somebody to skip their turn. Reverse turns the way you are switching turns. Say if you were going Counter-Clockwise, you would go to Clockwise. Draw Two makes you select one person to make Draw Two. Wild Cards and Wild Draw Four Cards are also in the game. You pick the color first, and if you have a Draw Four wild card, you may select someone to draw 4 cards. Playing these cards will be the way you will be winning the game.

The game had easily became a fan-favorite to many Americans as a classic board game. Later on in the years, different editions started to release.

Mainly, the game is to be on a Free-For-All game, but you may make changes to teams if you would like. In teams you would do the same thing as free-for-all, but this time with a/ partner/partners. The game can be really fun with teams too, but fun also without teams.

When playing the game, you want to play card in the ways they can be played. The rules of playing them down is to put down a card the exact color, number or wild card. If you have none of the cards you need, draw once.

As for me in the classic board games type, I love classics like Uno and Monopoly before a movie. We also get to talk to friends about things like thinking about a movie if we are going to watch one, ideas, strategies, and just random talk. I also get some time to have fun with my parents in a few games.

In fact, I remember a match I had yesterday with my friend. He would always pick me for all the draw fours he got, but never anyone else because he would think it would be fun to play them on me. Every match we did though that day, he ripped my hand of cards to pieces. But I still loved the match, we talked while playing about life, and he would talk also about how he would beat me, and he was right.

I was about 5 years old when I first played Uno. My dad was the champion at the Uno matches for us, but eventually he lost to my brother. It wasn't too long ago to me when that happened. I loved every minute of those matches. We grabbed some snacks to eat while we played, it was a blast! The game also taught me lessons I could never forget. If I didn't play Uno, I probably wouldn't be as nice as I am today, I wouldn't have any strategies for anything at all. I also wouldn't be a very good friend to my friends. The game was a never-ending gift to me back then. If I could take back that moment, I would love every second of it. That last moment shouting out "UNO!" was a saying I remembered I said a lot when I was 5 - 9

When your family or friends love board games, and you have a deck of Uno cards laying some where, grab it and go have some fun playing Uno! If you don't it won't cost much to buy a deck from a local shop.

If I were you, why not grab a deck and start playing a match right now! Trust me you'll love every second of it if your a family game type!

Amazing, if the game wasn't created, I wouldn't be the person I am today.

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