UNO is simple but undeniably addictive – most players will play several games and decide winners based on the number count of cards left in the losers’ hands. If you can’t shed a card you must draw one. To discard a card on your turn, you must match the number or colour of the top card (unless you have a wild card). Players are dealt 7 cards each and the top card of the remaining deck is flipped. The UNO deck consists of 108 cards: 25 of four different colours numbered 1 to 9 as well as ‘wild’ cards, ‘skip’ and ‘reverse’ cards that affect turn order, and penalty cards such as ‘draw 4’. Like Phase 10, getting rid of your cards is key to UNO, although, unlike Phase 10, emptying your hand before your competitors is the only route to winning the game. In fact, Phase 10 is second only to UNO when it comes to the best-selling card games.Ĭreated by Merle Robbins in 1971, UNOis an iconic card-shedding game.

Anyone who has played both Phase 10 and UNO will know how much these games have in common.

Phase ten with regular cards