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Also known as UNO™, UNO!™, UNO!
Card game
Key facts
- Designer
- Merle Robbins
- Publisher
- International Games (until 1992) Mattel (since 1992)
- Type
- Shedding-type
- Players
- 2–10 players
- Skills
- Hand management
- Age range
- 7+
- Playing time
- Varies
- Chance
- High
via Wikipedia infobox
~18 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Old Uno cards Uno (/ˈuːnoʊ/ ; from Spanish and Italian for 'one'), stylized in all caps as UNO, is a proprietary American shedding-type card game originally developed in 1971 by Merle Robbins in Reading, Ohio, a suburb of Cincinnati, that housed International Games Inc., a gaming company acquired by Mattel on January 23, 1992.
Played with a specially printed deck, the game is derived from the crazy eights family of card games which, in turn, is based on the traditional German game of mau-mau.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Uno” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.