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Thursday, 20 Mar 2025
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Pretty sure we can do whatever we like, they’re our cards, we bought them
plot twist: the rules are made up and the points don’t matter
When I was in the hospital, I played uno with 3 other patients. I put down a +4, and so did the next person, and the next. The poor sap had to pick up 12.
We bought the cards. We’ll take it from here
Confucius say “fight fire with fire”
Put +2 on +2 and opposite person draws 4 
House rules UNO. Everyone loves stacking the +4s on some poor player, while laughing at them.
We have 2 or 3 different family versions of the rules that we change up. The UNO supplied rules are more like basic guidelines to get you started.
You can literally do that in the video game version. Uno Twitter can go suck on a clam
We play draw +2 on a draw +2 and we play draw +4 on a draw +4; but never allow a +2 on a +4 to pass it on to the next player.
The UNO app lets you put a draw 4 on a draw 4.
UNO thinks this is a fucking game. Read the room, UNO. The time of corporate oligarchs telling us what to do is over.
Uno is based on (ripped off from) a classic card game called Switch (or Jack Change It in my country). In that game you can keep adding extra pick up cards indefinitely. I’ve seen people picking up 12 or more.
+2 on a +4 is dumb and I’ve never heard anyone doing that but +4 can always go on another +4
“Death of the Author” type of shit
Surprised no one has mentioned “Uno no mercy”, this is specially called out in the rules.
https://shop.mattel.com/products/uno-show-em-no-mercy-hwv18
The amount of “ugh” that went into that single “No.” LOOOL
Thanks for the cards but we will take it from here
I always make sure to be at least 90% familiar with whatever rules the group I’m playing with uses before starting. Some of them can be really weird.
One of my favorite ones so far is being allowed to play a wrong card. If no one notices before the next player makes their turn, it’s fair game, otherwise you have to take the wrong card back, draw 2 more, and get skipped. It’s like regulated cheating. Works best with 6’s on 9’s and vice versa, especially during a conversation.
Sometimes we play allowing stacking cards of the same type. Never thought to do it with different cards though.
Come over and play [Mau Mau](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mau-Mau_(card_game)), there you can always increase the draw amount with another 7. (It’s basically UNO but you can pretend to be in a real poker game, because it uses regular playing cards.)
It’s things like this that make uno a full contact competitive sport in my family.
It always starts out something innocent like this
Always keep the +4 card until the last moment.
Everyone has their own rule in the game
Quintel is right
wait I’ve always played like this
Never seen a person not throw +4 on +4 in my life. Throwing+2 on a +4 feels kinda wrong tho but depends on what you agree on before
Uno thinking theyre Konami with Yugioh cards
You can retrain the cards all you want, we’re still comboing the +Cards and Combo Breaking with Skip and Reverse as god intended
House Rules is definitely the way to go
Silly UNO, even if you do need to draw +4, that person gets to pick the new color to play, they still get a turn. You don’t get that privilege when you get +2’d. Why don’t they know how their own game is played?
its +24 or nothing
I love stacking the draw cards. One time all 30 students in class put three decks together and played a game, someone had to actually draw 48 cards 😆their hand was so full it couldn’t even be fanned out
U NO FUN
Putting down +2 or +4 on top of a +4 makes the game more fun, watching the other player get pissed off. 🤣🤣
Yeah yeah, and every time you land on an unowned property in Monopoly, you MUST buy it, or it’s immediately sold at auction to the other players.
But no one does that either.
EDIT: and please, if you’re a member of the extreme minority that actually uses this rule, please resist the urge to reply and point this out. Spend that time looking up the concept of “hyperbole” instead.
The rule of not being allowed to defend against a +4 is actually stupid. It’s a wild card, so shouldn’t you be able to place a card of the color specified by the player who placed it, or another +4 card? And you should also be allowed to place a +2 on a +2. I do agree with UNO that the additive effect of placing +2 and +4 cards in a row is stupid, it’s so unbalanced, and it guarantees the existence of a victim
My god. How easy is to market stuff these days.
Yeah, stfu uno you don’t know what you’re talking about.
House rules
I agree with no +2 on a +4 because of the power imbalance but a +4 on a +4 is perfectly balanced and therefore should counter.
You can do that in uno no mercy. Only larger + cards. Uno flip and uno all wild are my favorite but there’s nothing better than handing off a +26 in no mercy.
Stacking same card makes sense. Putting a plus 2 on a plus 4 is nonsense.
my house rules:
you can stack as many +2 as you want and even answer a +2 with a +4.
you cannot play a black card on a black card.
if you have a +4 and wish for a specific color, and the next person has a +2 of that specific color then it’s fair game.
How about when you play the +4 and choose a specific color, the recipient can put a +2 of that chosen color to push it forward? I guess that would make too much sense…
Agree we do +4 stacking fucccoutttaaaheereee 🤣
The issue of actually reading the rules of the game, is that I have this discussion every fucking time.