Designer | Merle Robbins |
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Publisher |
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Type | Shedding-type |
Players | 2–10 players[1] |
Skills | Hand management |
Age range | 7+[1] |
Cards | 112[2] |
Playing time | Varies |
Chance | High |
Uno (/ˈuːnoʊ/; from Spanish and Italian for 'one'), stylized 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.[3]
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.