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Skip-Bo
I have
been hearing about Mattel since young. And I started playing UNO since my teenage,
which is some 30 years ago. Mattel has entered the toy market of Hongkong since
long. However, which I don’t quite understand why, Mattel is not eager to promote
their card games here, apart from UNO and, until recently, DOS.
I
first came across Skip-Bo while doing a research on games “from the maker of
UNO”. I bought a Mattel value pack of 8 games from Amazon. And I also included
a pack of Skip-Bo. Amazon gives free shipment for any purchase up to 50
dollars. The cards were delivered by courier and reaching my home just 5 days
after I click the payment button.
After
learning that Skip-Bo also has an even longer history than UNO, I was desperate
to play it with my kids. With a total of 162 cards, the box of Skip-Bo is
bigger than those of other American card games. The design of the deck is very
simple though. There is only one suit and no face cards. The only special card
in the deck is the wild card “Skip Bo”.
Skip-Bo
Like
UNO, Skip-Bo is a shedding game. The first player to get rid of all his cards
win. But the game play is totally different from UNO. It is a game about following
number sequence and is a perfect game for little kids to learn counting.
General
Information
|
Player |
2 to 6 |
|
Playing Time |
20 mins |
|
Age |
8+ |
|
Year Released |
1967 |
|
Designer |
Hazel "Skip" Bowman |
|
Publisher |
Mattel, Inc. |
|
Family |
Shedding / Stops |
|
Score |
5.5 (Board Game Geek) |
Specifications
|
Card size |
US game size cards |
|
Deck size |
162 cards |
|
# of suits |
n/a |
|
Details |
The whole deck consists of the following cards:
|
The game play
Where to buy?
Amazon.
Hacking
The
game can be hacked by using 3 identical standard decks of playing cards,
perfectly in bridge size.
Ignore
the suits. Assume A’s are 1s, and 2s are 2s etc. Jacks are 11s. Queens are 12s.
And all Kings and Jokers are the wild cards “Skip-Bo”.
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