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Uno Game History

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OMG there is a Thomas and Friends Uno
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"UNO" card game 2010-2016 made by Mattel
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Just rediscovered my old deck of UNO cards from my childhood. After doing some Googling, I believe they are specifically, 1989 Waddingtons Uno Cards
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History of Uno

Origins and Development

Uno was invented in 1971 by Merle Robbins, a barber from Ohio. The game was initially created as a way to resolve family disputes over the rules of Crazy Eights. Robbins and his family invested $8,000 to have 5,000 copies of the game made [3]. The game quickly gained popularity, leading Robbins to sell the rights to a group of friends for $50,000 plus royalties. In 1992, Mattel purchased the rights to Uno, which has since become one of the world's most popular card games [2:3].

Popularity and Variations

Uno's simple yet engaging gameplay has led to its widespread popularity across various demographics. Over the years, numerous themed versions have been released, including Thomas and Friends, SpongeBob SquarePants, and F.R.I.E.N.D.S, similar to other popular games like Monopoly [1:1], [1:3]. These variations often include unique cards or rules that reflect the theme of the edition.

Cultural Impact

Uno has become more than just a card game; it is a cultural phenomenon. It is often played at family gatherings, parties, and even used as an educational tool to teach colors and numbers to children [3:1]. Its impact is evident in how it has been integrated into various aspects of popular culture, such as being mistakenly included in a Monopoly Deal purchase [4:3].

Mystery and Anecdotes

The game has also inspired quirky anecdotes and stories among players. For instance, one user shared a story about finding an Uno card in their wallet, speculating on how it got there [5:1]. Such tales highlight the game's presence in everyday life and its ability to create memorable experiences beyond the traditional gaming setting.

Conclusion

Uno's history is marked by its humble beginnings, rapid rise to fame, and enduring popularity. Its adaptability through themed versions and its role in social interactions underscore its status as a beloved classic. Whether through its original form or one of its many variations, Uno continues to be a staple in homes worldwide, bringing people together through fun and friendly competition.

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OMG there is a Thomas and Friends Uno

Posted by Confident_Deal_5483 · in r/thomasthetankengine · 2 months ago
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supervillainO7 · 2 months ago

There was also Monopoly i think?

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Confident_Deal_5483 · OP · 2 months ago

What are you seriously lol

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supervillainO7 · 2 months ago

I'm not sure but i think that for a short period (early 2000s?) there was a Thomas And Friends Monopoly. Considering all other things that had Monopoly (SpongeBob, F.R.I.E.N.D.S....) i wouldn't be surprised if Thomas had one 

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Confident_Deal_5483 · OP · 2 months ago

I just looked it up I looks like it’s more of a knock off

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Normandy4708 · 2 months ago

Released by Mattel in 2006 and again in 2009 (CGI version).

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bwoah07_gp2 · 2 months ago

When did they make these? Many years ago presumably? 

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KukaakCZ · 2 months ago

I have the third one

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Forsaken_Penalty720 · 2 months ago

I own the 3rd one 

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r/FrutigerAero • [2]

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"UNO" card game 2010-2016 made by Mattel

Posted by Zork_Kyabinetto · in r/FrutigerAero · 3 months ago

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MLC_YT · 3 months ago

I can see what you mean bro but this is Skeuomorphic not FA.

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Significant_Ad_4265 · 3 months ago

This is 0% FA

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skeletor69420 · 3 months ago

nah

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Level_Concentrate_89 · 3 months ago

Definitely a reach

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Novel-Feed6796 · 3 months ago

Its only skeumorphic and mostly only the outer packaging..., and the action cards...

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Just rediscovered my old deck of UNO cards from my childhood. After doing some Googling, I believe they are specifically, 1989 Waddingtons Uno Cards

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Suterovich · 6 months ago

Sick. Looks identical to the version we played with for decades.

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idk_what_to-put_in · 6 months ago

Oh shoot i still have these

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Otherwise-Mango2732 · 6 months ago

I bought a new pack recently. My 5 year old loves playing which works out for me. I still enjoy it too

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r/mildlyinteresting • [4]

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The Monopoly Deal I bought had UNO inside instead

Posted by SavoryClam · in r/mildlyinteresting · 8 months ago
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_Kelly_A_ · 8 months ago

To the employee at Hasbro “I gave you UNO job..”

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LevelGrounded · 8 months ago

That’s a win. You get to play Uno instead of having to play Monopoly.

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alwaysfatigued8787 · 8 months ago

Dos are the risks that we take when buying new games.

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Calmak_ · 8 months ago

I don't think it would fit the box.

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SiliwolfTheCoder · 8 months ago

Well done, I’m not happy about it but take my upvote.

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dewaynemendoza · 8 months ago

U no what you did.

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sulivan1977 · 8 months ago

Ended up with a better game.

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SamWhatson · 8 months ago

They did, indeed, swapped, stolen, and schemed

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mr-blister-fister · 8 months ago

Yeah nothing interesting about this. You should see what they do with action figures

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hugothebear · 8 months ago

But uno is more expensive than monopoly deal…

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Uno card that's been in my wallet for years. Don't know how it got there.

Posted by Admirable-Way7376 · in r/Weird · 1 month ago

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Still_Silver_255 · 1 month ago

Only thing I know for sure is the person is right handed. If I had to guess it’s more likely a female that wrote this given the feminine handwriting. The ‘Y’ is very curvy and playful making me think she was being playful. Judging by all the above I’m thinking a girlfriend or someone who liked you that scared you either slipped it in there or you put it in there after they gave it to you.

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Admirable-Way7376 · OP · 1 month ago

This is a good observation. I do think this theory is the most likely. I feel if this is the case, the girl who gave it to me was probably timid in some way since a lot of the girls I knew would scare me just for fun 😂

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goon_platoon_72 · 1 month ago

God is female but left handed as far as I know. Nine is the number of dreams and De La Soul says 3 is the perfect number so 3 x 3 is perfecter exponentially. God wanted to say sorry I know this can be scary but did it right handed to throw you off the scent. God doesn’t like being tracked.

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Tabby-pm9 · 1 month ago

What makes it right handed?

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Admirable-Way7376 · OP · 1 month ago

I think I'm a little young to get married currently. I have a small inclination that it could've been from a girl that I knew in the past.

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InitiativeHour2861 · 1 month ago

It's actually from a girl you will know in the future. The reason you have a reluctance to throw it away is that subconsciously you are aware that it will eventually close the time-loop you are trapped in. You will return to the past and place the card in your own wallet.

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Stephen_Is_handsome · 1 month ago

It could be some one else’s husband?

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BungeeGump · 1 month ago
  1. Makes sense
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iam_mr_meeseeks · 1 month ago

That's the only thing that makes any sense here. I was gonna say the same thing.

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EdwinQFoolhardy · 1 month ago

How many years exactly?

Because I could totally see me or one of my friends in High School snatching a friend's wallet, slipping a note like that in there, then waiting to see how long it would take them to notice. Something weird, but ultimately harmless, to get a rise out of each other.

So, if you had that wallet as a teenager, that's one possible explanation that comes to mind.

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Admirable-Way7376 · OP · 1 month ago

Around my late teens. I like this theory. The only thing setting it back is that fact that me and all my mates have caveman handwriting 😂. The only thing we stole off each other was food.

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XROOR · 1 month ago

scared of “apostrophes”

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r/mildlyinteresting • [6]

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My grandmas collectors edition of uno

Posted by MaintenanceNo8442 · in r/mildlyinteresting · 8 months ago
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Acceptable_Survey982 · 8 months ago

I remember when those were the cards that you actually bought as the standard edition.

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MaintenanceNo8442 · OP · 8 months ago

it was before my time

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r/unocardgame • [7]

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What other games you think are in the uno family?

Posted by Piranh4Plant · in r/unocardgame · 3 months ago
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Theletterkay · 3 months ago

Just because its by the makers of uno doesnt make it in the uno family. Uno, and dos are the only uno games here

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HawluchaBest · 3 months ago

Just because Dos is made by the creators of uno doesn't make it an uno game. The rules and gameplay are completely different.

Only uno games are uno games

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Theletterkay · 3 months ago

Dos is a spinoff or sequel. That makes it "in the uno family of games". The others have zero connection to uno other than being made by the same company. I never said Dos is an Uno variant.

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SkyTheStupid · 3 months ago

Dos is clearly a spinoff of Uno though

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jose_w_veloso · 3 months ago

They all have the same ONE DNA. They don't need to have the same gameplay, because if they did, they would also be a type of UNO and wouldn't have their own name.

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Ok_Elephant3989 · 3 months ago

ONO 99 looks like it's in the style of UNO though

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gtbot2007 · 3 months ago

hey dont leave out Ono 99

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Lazy_Stuff8345 · 3 months ago

All of them except Snappy

Also where’s Uno FLIP!?

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Piranh4Plant · OP · 3 months ago

Uno flip is uno, so it goes in that part of the family

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RGLWingStellaLuna · 3 months ago

They are all very interesting. I am collecting them too

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vincentclow · 3 months ago

pic flic and bold

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r/FiftyTwoCards • [8]

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19th century Pocket Guides to card games by Cavendish (Henry Jones)

Posted by EndersGame_Reviewer · in r/FiftyTwoCards · 3 months ago
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mazzar · 3 months ago

Really interesting to see the games that were popular then. In the US, only Cribbage and Euchre have survived. Are there places where the others are still played?

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Rev-Counter · 3 months ago

My family in the UK has always played Whist

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Parr101 · 3 months ago

I recently found out bezique is still played in Haiti.

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Septyn47 · 3 months ago

I wnet digging through my photo collection, trying to find the matching Khanhoo booklet, but then I realized these are De La Rue, and Khanhoo was Goodall. Whoops.

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Mqttro · 3 months ago

These are nifty! Any links to them on archive.org or elsewhere?

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L0ngshanx · 3 months ago

I mean, it's nice you have it, or at least were able to take the picture, but... what's the point?

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EndersGame_Reviewer · OP · 3 months ago

It shows something interesting about the history of these games: they were being played already in the late 1800s.

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r/MandelaEffect • [9]

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Is it just me or did rules of UNO card game change?

Posted by [deleted] · in r/MandelaEffect · 4 years ago

Years back when I played UNO, the card game. I remember we put the card of same number or colour or colour change card. But when did the rule that you can put all similar cards(copies) together at once when its your chance? Was I fooled by my cousins or something?I dont remember there being such a rule. Was this rule there from before itself or is it a joke played by them?

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FloRaider · 4 years ago

UNO is like Monopoly or Hangman in that everybody knows the (house)rules, but nobody knows the (official) rules.

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[deleted] · 4 years ago

You said it right lol

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NaomiSmitty · 4 years ago

TIL that you can play more than one card! I played it the way you describe and that's how I'm teaching my son. Huh. Guess I should read the instructions. Not sure it's an ME since new iterations of old games sometimes switch things up. FWIW my husband also remembers one card at a time.

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[deleted] · 4 years ago

Probably because now they have more similar cards or something

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fentoozlers · 4 years ago

my cousins and i play both ways. the one where you play multiple cards is called “stacks” i think. just a different version

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[deleted] · 4 years ago

Now that makes sense

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magickmarck · 4 years ago

Oh my god

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Queen-Vfor__ · 4 years ago

Lots of UNO rules are not the one we used to play when we were kids. And there is no way we made it up cause it's been played that way internationally. It was written on the instructions manual.

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[deleted] · 4 years ago

Then it must be my cousins��

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r/Showerthoughts • [10]

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The hardest part of an Uno game is deciding on whose rules you play in.

Posted by theimperfectdisaster · in r/Showerthoughts · 5 years ago
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rmc8293 · 5 years ago

It's not a rule book. Just a small piece of paper included in case with them cards. It's difficult to lose it.

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rmc8293 · 5 years ago

It has a leaflet with rules. Did you get a bootleg copy my man?

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SarkyMs · 5 years ago

And rules change over time, my old games have different rules to my sisters new version.

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VeryLongReplies · 5 years ago

But man stacking the +2s and +4s to hit the person who called uno is great.

At my house drawing until you find a matching card is far more brutal than being forced to draw a set number.

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mirbrate · 5 years ago

It's always the house rules. The one hosting the game decided the rule set.

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AlmostButNotQuit · 5 years ago

The *uno hosting the game.

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heybigbuddy · 5 years ago

I had Monopoly on our old Apple computer like a billion years ago, and you could try to drag and drop money out of the bank into your "account." When you did, an alarm would ring and the money would go back to the bank.

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aptom203 · 5 years ago

I'm in the UK, and I know that whenever I've played board games with my family, it has been a case one or more people being sure they knew the rules, but they knew different sets of rules, both of which were different from the actual rules.

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Zellboy · 5 years ago

There’s a really fun game called Munchkin that me and my friends play often. One of the rules is “it’s only cheating if you get caught.” You bet your ass we all cheat and try to get ahead, sometimes we get away with it but the best is when we don’t. It sucks to get caught and it makes everyone else overly cautious for a few rounds to make sure no one else is doing something fishy, but it makes for the greatest moments to look back on

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sudifirjfhfjvicodke · 5 years ago

For Monopoly, the house rules are far worse than the official rules.

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MintyMissterious · 5 years ago

Dealer's choice. And the person who's the dealer rotates.

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aptom203 · 5 years ago

Uno is like monopoly, in that no one ever reads the actual rules and everyone has their own head cannon they are certain is correct despite never having read the rules.

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Uno game history

Key Considerations in Uno Game History:

  1. Origins: Uno was created in 1971 by Merle Robbins, a barber from Reading, Ohio. He designed the game as a way to teach his family about colors and numbers.

  2. Initial Release: The game was initially played with a standard deck of cards, but Robbins later developed a unique deck specifically for Uno. He and his family began selling the game from their home.

  3. Commercial Success: In 1981, Robbins sold the rights to Uno to a game company called International Games. The game gained popularity and became a staple in family game nights.

  4. Acquisition by Mattel: In 1992, Mattel acquired International Games, and Uno became part of their extensive game portfolio. Since then, it has seen numerous editions and variations.

  5. Cultural Impact: Uno has become a global phenomenon, with millions of copies sold worldwide. It has inspired tournaments, themed editions, and even digital versions for mobile devices.

Takeaways:

  • Uno's simple rules and engaging gameplay have contributed to its lasting popularity.
  • The game has evolved over the years, introducing new rules and variations, such as Uno Attack and Uno Flip.
  • It remains a favorite for players of all ages, making it a timeless classic in the world of card games.

Recommendation: If you're interested in exploring different versions of Uno, consider trying Uno Flip for a new twist on the classic game, or Uno Attack for a fast-paced, action-packed experience.

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