Skip-Bo is a commercial version of the card game Spite and Malice, which is itself a derivative of Russian Bank, also known as Crapette or Tunj, and ultimately of Double Klondike, also called Double Solitaire. In 1967 Minnie Hazel Skip Bowman, who lived from 1915 to 2001, of Brownfield, Texas, began producing a boxed edition of the game under the name SKIP-BO. In 1980 the game was bought by International Games, which was in turn acquired by Mattel in 1992. A mobile version for iOS was released by Magmic in September 2013. A newer edition of the game is sold in a green, white and yellow case.
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Playing Time Game Category Game Mechanic Minimum Players Maximum Players Classification
Player CountSmall Group (3-6 Players) 1 Sport
Game Type (category) Connections
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1. Board Game Matcher: Skip-Bo
2. Skip-Bo (source article)
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commercial version of the card game Spite and Malice
3. Ultra Board Games: Skip-Bo
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Year: 1967
4. Skip-Bo (BoardGameGeek)
- Playing Time: 20
- Designer: Hazel "Skip" Bowman
- Publisher: AMIGO
- Publisher: Gibsons
- Publisher: International Games
- Publisher: Mattel, Inc.
- Publisher: Super Impulse
- Publisher: The Skip-bo Company
- Publisher: Tomy
- Publisher: Waddingtons
- Game Category: Card Game
- Game Mechanic: Hand Management
- Minimum Players: 2
- Maximum Players: 6
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