Set Up Standard Uno deck: Take 0 to 9 of each colour 2 Skip of each colour 1 Reverse of each colour 2 Draw 2 of each colour 4 Wild 4 Wild Draw 4 Blank Cards for custom.

Every Card from the Uno Flip deck (to make sure every flip card exists in both the phases/sides)

No Mercy Deck: 0 to 9 of each colour 1 Skip Everyone of each colour 1 Reverse of each colour 1 Draw 4 of each colour 4 Colour Roulette 4 Wild Draw 6 4 Wild Draw 10 4 Wild Reverse Draw 4

Place the standard Uno cards and the Light Side of Flip cards face down, and Uno No Mercy cards face up on the Draw pile and shuffle.

This way, when the Light phase begins, you can only play the standard Uno cards and the Light Side of Flip cards. You can not play No Mercy cards during this phase.

Deal [your choice] amount of cards to each player.

Play The Light begins, and you can play the Light Side of Flip or standard Uno cards.

When you play a Flip card, just like in Uno Flip, flip the Draw pile, Discard pile, and your hand. Now the Dark phase begins.

In this phase, you can only play the No Mercy and the Dark Side of Flip cards. Plus, the Uno Spectrum rules apply now. You can no longer play the Standard Uno cards until the game is flipped back to the light phase using another Flip card.

If you only have No Mercy cards during the light phase, or Standard Uno cards during the dark phase, you must draw a card.

Win Condition Ranking System:- Losing Cards: Order of losing all of their cards is the order of ranking. i.e, the first one to lose their cards is deemed as first, and so on.

Mercy: If A player has/gets 25 cards or more, they are eliminated from the game. Mercy is active during both of the phases. The order of elimination is the order of the ranking from the bottom. i.e, the first one to get eliminated comes last, and the next one is the penultimate.

Rules: Game goes on until one of the two final players lose all of their cards or gets eliminated.

0's Pass and 7's Swap only apply during the Dark phase, and only to No Mercy cards.

Discard Colour can also discard its adjacent colour on the Spectrum, but ONLY one colour at a time. e.g: Discard Yellow can Discard Orange or Green as well. So technically Green, Yellow, Orange and Teal have 4 Discard colour card.

House Rules: Stacking

You are free to add or remove cards according to your choice, and are free to add any house rules as well.

If you guys have any more ideas, please let me know so that I can enjoy them as well :)

tldr: Combining the mechanics of Uno Flip, No Mercy and Full Spectrum.

What variations of uno have you created to make the game more strategic ? with bidding systems, contracts...?

This is another one of my personal cards, I call it "Surprise".

What it does is that, after playing this card, each player, starting from the user, must take out a "Surprise Token" from the "Bag of Surprises". Each player then take turns performing the action indicated on the token they have drawn before discarding them back into the bag.

The actions on the tokens are as follows:

• -2: Discard any two cards from your hand • +4: Draw four cards • Discard Red: Discard all of your red cards • Discard Yellow: Discard all of your yellow cards • Discard Green: Discard all of your green cards • Discard Blue: Discard all of your blue cards • Draw Red: Draw until you get a red card • Draw Yellow: Draw until you get a yellow card • Draw Green: Draw until you get a green card • Draw Blue: Draw until you get a blue card • Number Tornado: Discard all of your number cards • Trick: Gains the Trick Effect • Reveal: Reveal all of your cards • UNO!: Discard all your cards and leave only one on your hand

For the full details on Trick, i'll leave a link here for reference: https://www.reddit.com/r/unocardgame/s/GERhF7OXzs

Even if you're the user of the card, you can still draw up a bad token, while others can be so lucky, so it's more of a "use at your own risk" type of card, but if you don't mind the surprises, then this can be a very fun card to use.

My setup for Surprise is kinda too much, but I love being extra haha. If you want to recreate this in a cheaper and easier alternative, you can try using paper strips, write down the actions on each strip, roll them up, and put them all in a small box or basket or any container you have.

I’ve been playing for about a month, maybe a little less and I’d say my skill level is/was decent. My progress is 38% through the game and my collection is at 97%. With the yellow deck I beat all stakes, gold by far was the hardest. I had all jokers unlocked except the score 100M with one hand. I couldn’t score more than about 17M unseeded.

I was getting frustrated and tired of that smug little joker laughing at me, and asked for some tips and other than balatro university where to learn and improve strategy. The general answer was there aren’t a lot great write ups to improve gameplay. Which I thought was weird so I did a search and found this post and this is exactly what I was looking for.

It completely changed my approach and strategy to the game helped it make so much more sense. Using the advice and methods in the link post it only took me two days and not very many hours at all to get the run above that I did.

I can now definitely see how the game does take skill and not just rng from jokers to score major points. But rng still does matter a lot, as I don’t think I passed up any cards that would have helped me to get any farther in the game.

But at least now I know I have a chance anytime I play, as opposed to before when I was just hoping I’d get the right jokers other cards otherwise my run would be done quickly.

What do you guys find to be the best strategies to go for when beating different decks. Have toyed with straights and flushes and they seem to work ok but stall out a fair bit of the time. Any advice would be great as I love this addictive game!

For me it's when I found out that I could rearrange jokers. Seems silly now but I didn't know when I started!

Features:

• 8 colors (Red, Yellow, Blue, Green, Orange, Purple, Pink, Monochrome)
• Cards go from 0-20, plus irrationals, square roots, and imaginary numbers
• New action cards
• 12's are wild
• Irrational cards can be matched with their rounded values

Number Distribution:

• 16 of each number (2 per color) for 1-10
• 8 of each number (1 per color) for 0, 11-20, π, e, Φ, τ, γ, and square roots.
• 4 of each number (4 colors) for i to 10i

Action Distribution:

• 24 of each card (3 per color) for Reverse, Skip, +1, +2, -1, and -2
• 16 of each card (2 per color) for Skip All, Parry, Discard All, Colored +4, and /2
• 8 of each card (1 per color) for Peek, Target +2, and Decksplosion (?!)

Wild Action Distribution:

• 8 of each: -4, x2, +8, Go Fish, Trade, and +2 All
• 4 of each: Target Uno, Draw Random, Shuffle, War, +R, and Loot Box
• 1 of each: +16

Variable Distribution:

• 16 of each: Ace (A) and #
• 12 of each: X

Special Card Abilities:

• 12: Regular wild card.
• π, e, √7, √8, and √10: Can be matched with 3.
• Φ, √3, √5, and √6: Can be matched with 2.
• √2 and γ (Euler-Mascheroni constant): Can be matched with 1.
• τ: Can be matched with 6.
• Ace (A): Plays as either 1 or 10.
• #: Plays as any number from 0-20.
• X: Every turn, its value randomizes between 1 and 20.
• Imaginary Numbers (i, 2i, 3i... 10i): Displays 4 colors. When played, draw a single card.

Action Cards:

• Skip: Skip the next player's turn.
• Reverse: Reverse the direction of play.
• Peek: Pick a player to show his hand for 10 seconds. During that 10-second span, you are able to steal up to three cards.
• +1, +2, +4, Wild +8, and Wild +16: Draw the indicated number of cards.
• -1, -2, and Wild -4: Discard the indicated number of cards.
• Wild x2: Double the number of cards in your hand if it is lower than 12.
• /2: Discard half the number of cards in your hand.
• Wild Trade: Swap hands with a player of your choice.
• Wild Loot Box: Draw 6-10 cards from the discard pile.
• Wild War: Pick a player and find who has the higher sum of all number cards in their hands. The one with the lower sum draws two cards.
• Parry: Redirect an action to the next player.
• Wild Shuffle: All cards in the discard pile and players' hands are shuffled
• Wild Go Fish: The player says either a color or a number/action. The next player draws cards until he gets a card with a matching color or number/action.
• Target +2: Pick a player to draw 2 cards.
• Wild Target UNO: Pick a player to drop down to one card (you can also choose yourself)
• Wild +R: Use a D10 to determine how many cards the next player draws.
• Decksplosion (?!): The top 30 cards of the draw deck explode out. Players will then try to catch the falling cards. The caught cards are added to the players' hands, while ones that fell to the floor without getting caught are returned to the draw deck.
• Discard All: Discard all cards of one color from your hand.

Special Mechanics:

• Stacking (Optional): You have the option to discard all cards from your hand with matching numbers/symbols or colors.
• Draw Stacking
• Seven-O (optional)