How do you play the card game uno?

You've never heard of Uno? Seriously, it's a card game where players sit around the deck of cards and you draw a card when it it's your turn.The object of the game is to get rid of all your cards before the rest of the players because points are added up based on the cards everyone holds at the end of the round.The player with the lowest score at the end of the game wins.When a player has one card left he/she is supposed to say,"UNO"(Spanish for ONE).If they don't someone has to say,"You didn't say UNO!" Then the player has to draw more cards from the deck.(2 if i remember correctly) There is also the "color and number system" where if the face up card on the table is red with the number 2 on it,if you have any red cards,through down the red card you have with the highest number on it.But if you say,have a yellow card with the number 2 on it you can change the color to yellow.This would be good strategy if you have a lot of yellow cards.There are also wild cards where you can choose the color regardless of what's on top and draw four cards which when used,force the next player to draw four cards and you get to pick the color.But the rules state you can only use this card if you have no other card to play.A player who cannot deal a card based on the the top card must draw 1or 2 cards I believe.Then there are the reverse,draw two,and skip cards which can be used to stop someone from dealing their last card. I hope this information helps.Read the rules,get a few friends to play,and you should enjoy the game. :D

Uno ( /ˈuːnoʊ/; from Italian and Spanish for 'one') is a card game played with a specially printed deck (see Mau Mau for an almost identical game played with normal playing cards). The game was originally developed in 1971 by Merle Robbins in Reading, Ohio, a suburb of Cincinnati. It has been a Mattel product since 1992. The game's general principles put it into the Crazy Eights family of card games. The deck consists of cards of four colors: red, green, blue, and yellow. The ranks in each color are 0-9, with two of each number per color, except 0 which only appears once per color. There are three "action" cards in each color, labeled "skip", "draw two", and "reverse". There are also special black action cards, "wild" and "wild draw four". There are two copies of each colored regular and action card, except for the zero card, which only have one per suit. There are four "wild" and "wild draw four" cards each, producing a total of 108 cards. In older versions, only the 6 is underlined to distinguish it from the 9, which is not marked; newer versions have both the 6 and the 9 underlined to further distinguish the two ranks. Before playing, a dealer must be selected. This is accomplished by drawing cards. The person with the card of the highest face value is the dealer. Only number cards are used for this purpose. Any other cards are then put back into the deck. After the dealer has been selected, seven cards are dealt to each player, and the top card of the stock is exposed to start the discard pile. If the exposed card has a special ability, it is treated as if the dealer played that card, and the special effect occurs (i.e., skip, draw two, reverse, or wild). If the exposed card is a wild draw four, however, it is returned to the deck and the next card is exposed. Play begins with the person to the left of the dealer, i.e. clockwise. At each turn, a player may play a card from their hand that matches either the color or rank (or both) of the top exposed card, or play a wild or wild draw four. If the player doesn't have a card to match the one on the DISCARD pile, he/she must take a card from the DRAW pile. If the card picked up can be played, the player is free to put it down in the same turn. Otherwise, play moves on to the next person in turn. Alternatively, the player may choose not to play a playable card from his/her hand. If so, the player must draw a card from the DRAW pile. If playable, that card can be put down in the same turn, but the player may not use a card from the hand after the draw. After playing a single card or drawing, the next player clockwise takes a turn, or counter-clockwise when a reverse is in effect. If the stock is emptied, the discard pile is shuffled and turned over to replenish the stock. When a player plays down to only one card, that player is required to say "Uno!" to warn other players. If the word is not said, and another player points out the error, the original player is busted and has to draw two cards from the DRAW pile. The hand is over when one player has discarded all of their cards. After a player plays all their cards, the other players count the number of points pertaining to the values of the cards in their hands. Number cards are face value, colored special cards worth twenty, and wilds worth fifty. The first player to go out receives points for the cards left in his/her opponents' hands. The first person to reach a certain point value (officially 500) wins.

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