The way I was taught to play Uno, the reverse card changes the direction of play.if you’re taking turns clockwise, it changes it to counterclockwise.
However, I often hear people say “uno reverse card” in the context of saying “whatever you just tried to do to me, I’m turning it around on you”. That seems to me to imply that in the game, the reverse card turns things around on the other player. Like if they play a +2, you can play the reverse card and make them pick up 2. Is that the way some people play?
Is this one of those “house rules” situations where some people make up rules different from the official ones? Like the famous Monopoly rule where people put a pot of money in the middle that you win when you land on free parking, even though the official rules say nothing happens on free parking
I’ve never heard of anyone playing like that. I think it’s just that if it can reverse turn order, it can reverse ANYTHING!
That and it’s just a joke.
it can reverse ANYTHING!
Chaos, chaos!
Uno reverse… it reverses nothing.
I have never seen Uno played that way. If a player plays “reverse”, then the order of play switches from counterclockwise to clockwise or vice versa. The effects of the previous player’s card still land on their usual targets.
I’ve never heard of anyone playing like that. My understanding was inline with the rules.
- reverse just reverses order
- but that means I can now attack you next time around
- you can no longer attack me (assuming more than two people playing)
So if you hit me with “draw 2”, I can hit you with “reverse”, then next turn can make you “draw 2”
Oh hell yea. It’s a big house rules game. In the drug and alcohol program I worked with I got to go to all sorts of detention centers for minors.
They had so many fun rules. One group called it Spicy Uno and had rules for regular cards too.
A 7 is played and no one can talk until another 7 is played, each word or sound is draw a card regardless of active turn.
A 6 was waterfall, last person to raise their arms over their head draws a card.
If the reverse card matches the color, anything can be reversed. Even on a multicolor draw card, whoever played the multicolor has to pick one of the colors.
If you have the twin(same color and symbol) of a card just played you can “jump in” to the turn rotation and continue in the same direction as if it was the “jumpers” original turn. This one was my favorite I think.
Yes, we used to play that way. Basically any attack card could be stacked on top of a previous one (of a matching colour or type), and the first person who couldn’t add to the stack got all the effects combined (so you might pick up 6 cards from a stack of +2s)
Yes. Most people I’ve played with do some variant of the super stacker ruleset.
All draw cards function as a skip your own turn and add to the draw stack. Skip and reverse can also function as passing the stack to someone else. This adds an additional element of risk/reward, do you play a scarce action card to pass the large stack at the risk of it backfiring and you possibly receiving an even larger draw stack, or do you just take the draw now?
The variants were popular enough that the UNO Facebook page has officially suggested them, for what it’s worth.
Rules for Stacking Draw Cards in UNO | Uno Variations - https://www.unovariations.com/uno-variation-stacking
This was how we played growing up. We knew it wasn’t official, but knew it was more fun.
My friends and I would play like that for shits and giggles usually after drinks. You can play reverse on top of pick up on top of skip, etc. so inevitably someone ends up with a massive hand and a plan to exact (friendly) revenge that often backfires spectacularly. But I wouldn’t say most people play that way. Just one of those figures of speech one says without really thinking about.
There’s a version of Uno called No Mercy. We play it a lot. Hell hath no fury like a player receiving a +10.
It sounds fun playing that way. You just played a change the colour card? Well now I get to pick the colour
