UNO Flex! Card Game: Rules and Instructions for How to Play

Objective

The objective of UNO Flex! is to get rid of all of the cards from your hand before the other players.

Setup

Separate the Power Cards from the rest of the cards.
Give one Power Card to each player. Each player should turn their Power Card so the green check mark side is face up. The rest of the Power Cards are returned to the box.
Choose one of the players to be the dealer. The dealer shuffles the rest of the cards.
Deal seven cards to each player. Players can look at their own cards, but shouldn’t show them to the other players.
Place the rest of the cards face down in the center of the table. These cards make up the Draw Pile.
Flip over the top card from the Draw Pile. This face up card starts the Discard Pile. If you turned over an Action Card, ignore its effect. Flip over the next card from the Draw Pile to start the Discard Pile.
The player to the left of the dealer starts the game. Play proceeds clockwise to start the game.

How to Play UNO Flex!

On your turn you will try to play one of the cards from your hand to the Discard Pile. In order to play a card it has to match the top card from the Discard Pile in one of three ways:

Color
Number
Symbol

Playing A Card in UNO Flex! — The current card on top of the Discard Pile is a yellow eight. The player could play the red eight as it matches the number. You could play the yellow seven as it matches the color. Finally you could play the final four cards because they are wild.

Matching the Symbol — The current card on the top of the Discard Pile is a Draw Two card. On your turn you could play the blue Draw Two because it is the same symbol.

For colorblind players the cards have symbols to indicate each color:

One triangle – yellow
Two triangles – green
Three triangles – blue
Four triangles – red

If you have a matching card you can play it to the Discard Pile. When you play an Action Card, you will take a special action (see UNO Flex! Card Meanings section below for more details).

If you do not have a matching card, take the top card from the Draw Pile and add it to your hand. If this new card matches the Discard Pile in one of the three ways mentioned above, you can immediately play it.

Should you have a card that you can play but you choose not to play it, you will take the top card from the Draw Pile. The only card you are able to play on your turn is the card that you just drew.

If there are no cards left in the Draw Pile, you will shuffle the Discard Pile in order to form a new Draw Pile.

Once you have either played or drawn a card, your turn ends. Play will pass to the next player in turn order.

Flex Cards

One of the new additions are the Flex Cards. Each Flex Card has two different “sides”.

The majority of the card and the top left corner shows the “regular” side of the card. Normally you will play these cards for their regular side. When you play one of these cards for their regular side, they act like a normal card.

The bottom right side of these cards are the “flex” side. This side of the card shows a different color and or action symbol on it.

Flex Card — This card is a Flex card. The regular side of the card is a green two. Its flex side is the yellow two.

To use this side of the card your Power Card must be on the green check mark side. See the Power Card section below for more details.

If you play a card for its flex side, the next player has to play their card based on the regular side of the card.

Playing A Card for its Flex Side — This player doesn’t have a yellow or seven card in their hand that they can play. They do have a card that has a flex side that is yellow though. If they turn their Power Card to the red side they can play the two card as if it was a yellow two. The next player in turn order would then have to play off the card as if it was a green two.

UNO Flex! Power Card

At the beginning of the game each player is given a Power Card that is turned to the green check mark side. This card is double sided. When the green check mark side is face up, your Power Card is currently active.

If the red x side is face up, your Power Card is currently inactive.

When your Power Card is active/green, you can use the flex side of Flex cards. If it is currently red, you cannot use the flex side of your cards. After you use the flex side of one of these cards, you must flip your Power Card to the red x side.

You will flip your Power Card for three reasons during the game.

If each players’ Power Card is on the red x side, all of the players will flip their Power Cards over to the green check mark side at the same time.

Flip Over Power Cards — All four players’ Power Cards are on the red side. All of the players will flip their Power Card to the green side.

Should you play a Number card with a “flip” symbol on it, you will turn your Power Card over to the opposite side. This is not optional. If you play one of these cards and your Power Card is currently green, you will have to flip it to the red side.

Finally players will have to flip their Power Cards if a Wild Flip card is played.

UNO Flex! Card Meanings

Draw Two

When you play a Draw Two card the next player in turn order has to draw two cards from the Draw Pile. They will also lose their turn.

Reverse

A Reverse card changes the current direction of play. If turn order was clockwise, it will now move counter clockwise. If it was counter clockwise, it will now move clockwise.

Skip

When you play a Skip card, the next player in turn order loses their turn.

Wild All Flip

All of the players must immediately flip their Power Card to the opposite side. You will then get to choose the color for the Wild All Flip card.

Flex Draw Two

If you play the Flex Draw Two for its regular side, it will play like a normal Draw Two card.

Should you choose to play it for its flex side, it will force all of the other players to draw one card. The next player in turn order does not lose their turn.

Flex Reverse

For its regular ability it will be played as a normal Reverse card.

When you play it for its flex side, the card acts as both a Reverse and Skip. Play will move in the opposite direction, and the first player in the new direction skips their turn.

Flex Skip

If you play the Flex Skip for its regular side, it will act like any other Skip card.

For its flex side, all of the other players will be skipped. Basically when you play the card you get to take another turn right away.

Flex Wild Target Draw Two Card UNO Flex!

Flex Wild Draw Two

For its regular side the card acts like a normal Wild card. When you play the card, you will get to choose its color.

If you choose to play the card for its flex side, it acts like a Draw Two card. You get to choose which other player is forced to draw the two cards. The next player in turn order then gets to take their turn like normal. As the card is a Wild, you also get to choose its color.

Flex Wild All Draw

Should you play the card for its regular side, it will be used in the same way as a normal Wild card.

When played for its flex side, all of the other players are forced to draw two cards. The next player does not lose their turn.

Flex Wild Draw Four

Regular Side

A Wild Draw Four matches any other card. You can only play a Wild Draw Four card though if you do not have another card in your hand that matches the current color of the Discard Pile. Wilds are considered color matches.

Wild Draw Four Example — The current player has played a Wild Draw Four card for its regular side. As it is wild it matches the yellow seven that was on the Discard Pile. The next player in turn order has to decide whether they are going to challenge or if they will draw the four cards.

Once you play the card the next player in turn order has two options.

They can choose to draw the four cards and lose their next turn.

Otherwise they can challenge the play of the Wild Draw Four. When a player chooses to challenge, the player who played the Wild Draw Four has to show them their entire hand to verify that they played the card correctly.

If the player did not have any cards in their hand that match the current color, the challenging player will have to draw six cards. They will also lose their turn.

Playing A Flex Wild Draw Four Correctly — As the player did not have any yellow or wild cards in their hand, they played the Flex Wild Draw Four card correctly. The challenging player has to now draw six cards instead of four as they failed the challenge.

If the player played the Wild Draw Four incorrectly (they had one or more cards that matched the current color), they will lose the challenge. Instead of the next player having to draw the four cards, the player that played the Wild Draw Four has to.

Playing A Wild Draw Four Incorrectly — The player played the Flex Wild Draw Four incorrectly as they have a yellow card in their hand. They will have to draw the four cards instead of the challenging player.

Whether the card was successfully challenged or not, the player that played the Wild Draw four chooses its color.

Flex Side

The flex side works the same as the regular side. The one difference is that you can choose which player has to draw the four cards. That player will get to choose whether they want to challenge the play of the card. The next player in turn order then takes their turn.

Calling UNO

When you only have one card left in your hand, you must call out “UNO”. This is to let the other players know that you are close to winning the game.

Should another player catch you not saying UNO before the next player takes their turn, you must draw two cards.

Winning the Game

The first player to play the last card from their hand wins the game.

Keeping Score in UNO Flex!

If you want to play more than one game, you can choose to use the scoring variant.

The game is played the same as the normal game. When the round ends, the winner of the round takes all of the cards remaining in their opponents’ hands. They will score points for each of these cards.

Number cards – face value
Skip, Reverse, Draw Two, Flex Skip, Flex Reverse, Flex Draw Two – 20 points
Flex Wild Target Draw 2, Flex Wild All Draw, Flex Wild Draw Four, Wild All Flip – 50 points

Scoring in UNO Flex! — For the cards in the top row players will score the numerical value of the card. Each of the cards in the second row are worth 20 points. Finally the cards in the bottom row are worth 50 points each.

You will keep a running total for each player. The first player to score 500 or more points wins the game.

UNO Flex! 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.

Components

112 cards
8 Power Cards
Instructions

Year: 2022 | Publisher: Mattel | Designer: NA | Artist: NA

Genres: Card, Family

Ages: 7+ | Number of Players: 2-8 | Length of Game: 15-20 minutes

Difficulty: Light | Strategy: Light | Luck: Moderate-High

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Written By:

Eric Mortensen

Eric Mortensen is an owner and head writer on Geeky Hobbies since 2014. He is an avid board game player and collector with over 3,000 board and card games in his collection. Since 2014 he has written more than 1,100 board game how to play guides.