Uno is a commercial shedding-type card game in which players race to empty their hand by matching the color or number of the card on top of a discard pile, using special action cards to skip, reverse or force opponents to draw extra cards. The game was created in 1971 by Merle Robbins in Reading, Ohio, and was later purchased and mass-marketed by a games company that became part of Mattel. It is now published worldwide in numerous themed and rule-variant editions.
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Originating RegionUnited States (Reading, Ohio) 1 Game TypeCard game, shedding-type 1 Governing BodyNo governing body; Mattel organizes the Uno Championship Series, first held in 2021, but there is no independent federation. 1 Classification
Player CountLarge Group or Variable 1 Sport
Game Type (category) Uno
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Uno ( ; from Spanish and Italian for 'one'), stylized in all caps as UNO, is a proprietary American shedding-type card game originally developed in 1971 by Merle Robbins in Reading, Ohio, a suburb of Cincinnati, that housed International Inc., a gaming company acquired by Mattel on January 23, 1992.
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In 2021, to celebrate the game's 50th anniversary, Mattel hosted the inaugural Uno Championship Series.
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is one of the many variations of the card game Uno
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Uno as intellectual property, not folklore
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