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kevin52408's Uno (Other)
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| [March 4, 2010 06:44:36 PM]
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The game ties into the human competitive spirit by pitting the players against one another. By adding elements that not only decrease your own card count, but also increase another player’s card count, oftentimes there will be “friendly” confrontations between the players. The competitive portion also automatically generates interest in the game. Both sessions I played with my wife, who is very competitive, and we always ended up bickering. At one point she said, “If you play one more Draw Two you’ll be cooking supper tonight!” Therefore, somehow she ended up winning that game. It is because of the way that card games have brought people together to socialize that has made them so popular. It is for this same reason that they have stayed around for such a long time, even though we have video games. There have actually been implementations of Uno on several video consoles including Game Boy, Playstation Network, Xbox Live Arcade, and a few mobile phone versions.
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| [March 3, 2010 09:53:38 PM]
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Uno is a card game that can be played with 2 to 10 players that uses a special deck of cards. The normal cards are number 0-9 and come in red, green, blue, and yellow. Then there are special cards: Draw Two makes the next player draw two cards, Skip skips the next player, Reverse causes the order of play to change directions, Wild lets the player choose what the current color is, and Wild Draw Four lets the player choose the current color and causes the next player to draw four cards. Gameplay starts with the dealer giving every player seven cards. The dealer then takes the top card from the left over cards (the stack) and places it face up next to the stack. Play then starts in a clockwise direction from the dealer. The current player must play a card that is of the same color or the same number as the card that is on top of the cards that are face up and have been played, or the player may play a Wild card. As a player is playing their next to last card they must say “uno”, which is “one” in Spanish. If a player forgets to say “uno” and another player says “uno” first, the player that did have one card must draw two cards from the stack. When a player lays down his or her last card, all of the other players must count up the face value of their remaining cards and record the number of points they received. Once a player reaches a predetermined score, the game is over.
As with most card games, there is a certain amount of skill involved, as well as luck. The luck element comes into play, because the player is restricted by the luck of the draw, but there are strategic elements to the game as well. One simple strategy is to play the highest number that you possibly can for a given turn, that way if you do lose, the cards you have left in your hand will count the least toward your score. Often times a player will save cards that will cause the next player to draw cards until close to the end of the game, so that when the player is close to “uno,” they can be forced to draw more cards. When playing with two players, there are additional strategies that do not exist when there are more players. For instance, if you play the Skip card or a card that makes the other player draw a card, that means that it will go to the next player, which is yourself. This allows for “combos” to be made, such as Wild Draw Four, Skip, Skip, Draw Two, and then followed by a normal card.
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kevin52408's Uno (Other)
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Current Status: Playing
GameLog started on: Wednesday 3 March, 2010
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