Mixed in with the point cards are a number of Roll cards. One thing to remember is that cards currently in your Bench are still vulnerable until they’ve been Banked.

All of this still happens if you bust you just lose the chance to select a stack, potentially giving lots of points to your rivals. Then in clockwise order the next player gets to choose one of the remaining stacks until all stacks have been taken. At any point before you bust you can choose to stop and take all of the cards in a single stack and place them into your Bench. As long as you have a valid spot to place the card you’re safe, but if you can’t put the card into one of the three stacks, you bust and your turn is over. Each pile can only contain one card of each number (1 through 6) and one card of each color (red, blue, purple, yellow, and green). On your turn you’ll flip over the top card from the deck, placing it into one of 3 piles of cards. In PUSH, players “push” their luck in trying to collect more points from a shared deck of cards than their opponents.

PUSHĪt the top of the list is a game that I think could easily unseat UNO as the king of light card games. In this Top 6 piece, I’m going to present 6 light card games that I think could replace UNO on your family’s game table. Love it or hate it, UNO’s success isn’t an accident it features simple gameplay, colorful artwork and graphic design, and a level of strategy that leaves room for players to chat with friends and family while playing the game.Įven though UNO dominates the card game market there’s still loads of other options. After nearly 50 years, and over 150 million copies sold, UNO is still the undisputed king of custom card games. When a player has a single remaining card in their hand they must announce “UNO” to the table to make sure everyone knows they might be able to go out…effectively painting a target on their back.Īfter raising the $8,000 needed to print 5,000 UNO decks and selling them out of his barber shop, Robbins sold the rights to UNO to International Games for $50,000 plus ongoing royalties.

This new game contained cards of 4 different colors numbered 1-9, Wild cards, Skips, Reverses, Draw 2 cards, and the infamous and iconic Draw 4 card. In UNO players attempt to empty their hand of cards by playing them to a shared discard pile. In a flash of inspiration he wrote his own set of rules for a new game and dubbed it “UNO”. In 1971 a man named Merle Robbins had an argument with his son about the rules for Crazy 8s.

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