UNO Mario Kart Card Game: Rules for How to Play

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Objective of UNO Mario Kart

The objective of UNO Mario Kart is to play all of the cards from your hand before the other players.

Setup

• Choose a dealer who will shuffle the cards.
• Deal seven cards to each player face down. Players can look at their own cards, but shouldn’t show them to the other players.
• Place the remaining cards face down on the table to form the Draw Pile.
• Flip over the top card from the Draw Pile to form the Discard Pile. If the revealed card is an Action card, ignore its ability and flip over another card.
• The player to the left of the dealer goes first. Play will proceed clockwise.

Playing the Game

On your turn you will try to play a card from your hand. You will look at the top card from the Discard Pile and try to find a card from your hand that matches it. You may play a card if it matches one of three elements of the top card from the Discard Pile.

• Color
• Number
• Symbol

If you play an Action card, it will have a special effect on the game (see our Card Meanings post for more details).

Even if you have a card that you can play, you can choose not to play it.

Drawing a Card

If you don’t play a card, you will draw the top card from the draw pile. You will look at the card. If the new card matches the top card on the Discard Pile, you can immediately play it. If not, you will add the card to your hand.

When the draw pile runs out of cards, shuffle the Discard Pile to form a new Draw Pile. You will need to keep the top card from the Discard Pile in place so players remember what card that they are playing on.

After you play or draw a card, your turn ends. Play will pass to the next player in turn order.

Calling UNO

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

If another player catches you not saying it, you will have to draw two cards from the draw pile. You must challenge the player before the next player begins their turn.

Winning UNO Mario Kart

The first player to play all of the cards from their hand wins the game.

Alternative Scoring

Instead of only playing one hand to determine a winner, you can choose to play several hands to determine the winner.

Each hand ends in the same way as the normal game. The player that won the hand will take all of the cards still left in the other players’ hands. The rules do not specify what happens if the last played card forces another player to draw cards. Most versions of UNO force the player to draw the cards before the winner collects the cards.

The winner of the hand will score points for each of the cards they collect as follows.

• Number Cards – Face Value
• Draw Two, Reverse, Skip – 20 points
• Wild Draw Four, Wild Item Box – 50 points

Keep a running total of the points that each player has scored. The first player to score 500 or more total points wins the game.

UNO Mario Kart FAQs

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

• 19 blue cards (one 0, two each of 1-9)
• 19 green cards (one 0, two each of 1-9)
• 19 red cards (one 0, two each of 1-9)
• 19 yellow cards (one 0, two each of 1-9)
• 8 Draw Two cards (two of each color)
• 8 Reverse cards (two of each color)
• 8 Skip cards (two of each color)
• 4 Wild Draw Four cards
• 8 Wild Item Box cards
• Instructions

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Year: 2020 | Publisher: Mattel | Designer: Nick Hayes

Genres: Card, Family

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

Difficulty: Light | Strategy: Light | Luck: High

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