Uno - the one true path

Uno is currently the number one game at welikeplay HQ. And I admit I was a little hesitant when No.1 child got it as as pressie a few months back. But I’m big enough to admit my misgivings were wrong, as this game rocks. Perhaps my perceptions would be different if I’d been forced to endure it through wet childhood holidays in a Cornish caravan-site, but MrWelikeplay Senior had a certain reluctance when it came to boardgames. That, and we went to Scotland where is still rained, but we had to run around to keep warm too.

Uno has one feature that lets it reign in our abode as the number one game (at least for a few weeks); growed-ups can use a rule to choose when is best not to win. For those of you uninitiated in the one true path of Uno, there is the ’shout loudly at the poor fool who forgot to say Uno when putting down their penultimate card’; though at welikeplay HQ this only counts against anyone over the age of consent. As a co-player you can then choose when to act/be the poor fool so that you have to pick up more cards; hence the game continues, you haven’t won, the munchkins have played by the rules and every one is happy. This anticheating - in cheating to lose to serve a greater good - is something I must dwell on more, there seems to be some wisdom in it but also pitfalls.

So Uno gets my top 5 star rating; its enjoyable, engaging, numerate and it fits in a hand-bag/man-bag easily.

tag... review, 5up, 8up, card games, cheating