UNO All Wild! Card Game Rules Explained With Pictures

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Objective of UNO All Wild

The objective of the game is to be the first player to get rid of all of the cards from your hand.

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Setup

• Choose a player to be the dealer. The dealer shuffles all of the cards.
• Deal seven cards to each player.
• Place the rest of the cards facedown on the table to form the Draw Pile.
• Turn over the top card from the Draw Pile to form the Discard Pile. You will ignore the special action of the card that starts the Discard Pile.
• The player to the left of the dealer starts the game. Play will proceed clockwise.

Playing the Game

To start each of your turns you will choose one of the cards from your hand to play. Unlike normal UNO, all of the cards in UNO All Wild are wild. Therefore you don’t have to worry about matching color, number or symbol. You can play any one card from your hand to the Discard Pile. You will then take the special action corresponding to the card that you played.

After playing a card and performing the corresponding action, play passes to the next player in turn order.

UNO All Wild Card Meanings

Wild 

Like normal UNO, you can play a Wild card at any time. The Wild has no special action in the game. To make the game more interesting, you can choose to change the Discard Pile to any color. Since all cards are wild though, any color you choose has no impact on the game. 

Wild Reverse

When you play a Wild Reverse card, the direction of play is reversed. If play was moving clockwise, it will now move counterclockwise. If it was moving counterclockwise, it will now move clockwise.

Wild Skip

The Wild Skip card forces the next player in turn order to lose their turn.

Wild Skip Two

When you play a Wild Skip Two card, the next two players in turn order lose their turn.

Wild Draw Two

The Wild Draw Two card forces the next player in turn order to draw two cards from the Draw Pile. They also lose their next turn.

Wild Draw Four

When you play the Wild Draw Four the next player in turn order draws four cards from the draw pile. They also lose their next turn.

Wild Targeted Draw Two

The Wild Targeted Draw card allows you to target another player. You can choose any other player, and that player has to draw two cards from the draw pile. The chosen player does not lose their next turn.

Wild Forced Swap

When you play the Wild Forced Swap card you choose another player. You have to swap your hand with the other player you chose. This is not optional, you are required to swap your hand with another player even if it hurts you. If either player now only has one card in their hand, they must say UNO in order to avoid the penalty.

Calling UNO

When you only have one card left in your hand, you must say UNO. This is to alert the other players that you are close to winning the game.

Should you fail to say UNO and anther player challenges you, you will have to draw two cards and add them to your hand. The other player must challenge you before the next player takes their turn.

If you are worried that the next player in turn order is going to play their last card, you can choose to draw a card instead of playing a card. You can then either play the card you just drew, or you can end your turn without playing any cards.

Winning the Game

The game ends when a player plays the last card from their hand. This player has won the game.

Scoring

If you would like to play multiple hands, you can choose to use scoring.

The player that plays the last card from their hand collects all of the cards left in the other players’ hands. UNO All Wild does not say what happens if the last card you play forces a player to draw cards. Most versions of UNO say that the next player in turn order draws the corresponding number of cards before the winner collects the cards.

The winner of the hand scores points from the cards they collect as follows:

• Wild – 20 points
• Wild Draw Two, Wild Draw Four, Wild Forced Swap, Wild Reverse, Wild Skip, Wild Skip Two, and Wild Targeted Draw Two – 50 points

Players keep track of the points they score each hand. If no one has scored 500 or more points, you will play another hand. The first player to score 500 or more points wins the game.

UNO All Wild FAQ

If you have any questions about how to play the game, leave a comment below on this post. I will try to answer any questions asked as best and as quickly as possible.

Another player played a Wild Draw Two card against me. Can I play my own Wild Draw Two card to pass the penalty onto the next player so they have to draw four cards?

This is a common question with most UNO games. This is referred to as stacking. Basically can you pass on a draw penalty by playing your own card that forces another player to draw cards?

In a few versions of UNO you are allowed to stack (UNO Show ‘Em No Mercy in particular). Stacking is not allowed in most versions of UNO though. UNO All Wild! is one of those games were it is not allowed.

If a Wild Draw Two card is played against you, you have to draw two cards, and you will lose your turn. You cannot play your own Wild Draw Two card to pass the penalty onto the next player. This applies to the Wild Draw Four and Wild Targeted Draw Two as well.

I only have one card left and it is a Wild Forced Swap card. When I play the card do I win the game, or do I have to swap my hand with another player and they win the game?

Unfortunately the rules for UNO All Wild kind of contradict themselves in this situation.

The rules say that the game/hand ends when a player plays the last card from their hand. When you play the Wild Forced Swap card you no longer have any cards left in your hand. I normally would interpret this to mean that the player that plays the Wild Forced Swap card would win the game because they would temporarily have no cards left triggering the end of the game.

The rules for the Wild Forced Swap card do force you to swap your hand with another player even if it hurts you though. This means that the player you swap hands with would win the game. While I would normally go with the first interpretation, this second interpretation is actually the correct one. This is due to the fact that the creator of the game Nick Hayes confirmed this is how the rule works on Board Game Geek.

Since the player you swap hands with wins the game in this situation, you need to try to avoid having a Wild Forced Swap card as your last card.

Components

• 54 Wild cards
• 14 Wild Reverse cards
• 14 Wild Skip cards
• 6 Wild Skip Two cards
• 10 Wild Draw Two cards
• 6 Wild Draw Four cards
• 4 Wild Targeted Draw Two cards
• 4 Wild Forced Swap cards

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Year: 2021 | Publisher: Mattel | Designer: Nick Hayes

Genres: Card, Family

Ages: 7+ | Number of Players: 2-10 | Length of Game: 15-30 minutes

Difficulty: Light | Strategy: Light | Luck: High

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