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UNO Minecraft Card Game: Rules and Instructions for How to Play

UNO Minecraft Card Game: Rules and Instructions for How to Play

UNO Minecraft How to Play Quick Links: | Objective  |  Playing the Game  |  Card Meanings  |  Calling UNO  |  Winning the Game  |  Optional Scoring

Objective of UNO Minecraft

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

Setup for UNO Minecraft

  • Choose a player to be the dealer. They will shuffle all of the cards.
  • The dealer deals seven cards face down to each player. You can look at the cards that you are dealt, but you shouldn’t show them to the other players.
  • Place the rest of the 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 flipped card is an action card (not a number card), ignore it and flip over another card.
  • The player to the left of the dealer starts the game. Play proceeds clockwise to start the game.

Playing UNO Minecraft

On your turn you are trying to play a card from your hand to the Discard Pile. In order to play a card it must match at least one of the following:

  • Color
  • Number
  • Symbol

If a card matches one of the previous criteria, you can play it to the Discard Pile. You can only play one card on your turn. If you play an Action card, you will take the corresponding action. See the Cards of UNO Minecraft section below.

Playing A Card
The Discard Pile currently has a yellow two on top. Along the bottom are five cards that the next player could potentially play on their turn. The yellow eight could be played as it matches the color. The red two could be played because it matches the number. The final three cards could be played because they are wild cards.
Playing An Action Card
The top card on the Discard Pile is a Reverse card. The next player could choose to play a Reverse card on their turn.

If you do not have any cards in your hand that match the card on the top of the Discard Pile, you cannot play a card. Instead you will draw the top card from the Draw Pile. If the card you just drew matches one of the criteria of the top card from the Discard Pile, you can play it immediately.

Should the Draw Pile run out of cards, you will shuffle the cards in the Discard Pile in order to form a new Draw Pile.

While you normally want to play a card whenever you can, you can choose to not play a card on your turn even if you have one that you can play. In this case you will draw a card from the Draw Pile. After you draw a card, the only card you can potentially play on your turn is the card that you just drew.

After you have drawn or played a card, your turn ends. The next player in turn order takes their turn.

The Cards of UNO Minecraft

Number Cards in UNO Minecraft

Number Cards

Number cards do not have any special abilities. You can only play the cards if they either match the color or number of the top card from the Discard Pile.

Draw Two Card in UNO Minecraft

Draw Two

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

Reverse Card in UNO Minecraft

Reverse

Playing a Reverse card reverses the direction of play. If turn order was moving clockwise, it will now move counter-clockwise. If it was moving counter-clockwise, it will now move clockwise.

Skip Card in UNO Minecraft

Skip

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

Wild Card in UNO Minecraft

Wild

Wild cards match every other card in the game. Therefore you can play them at any time. Additionally the player that plays a Wild card gets to choose the color of the Discard Pile.

Wild Creeper Card in UNO Minecraft

Wild Creeper (TNT)

Whenever you draw a Wild Creeper card (TNT) from the Draw Pile you must immediately show it to the other players. As a punishment for drawing the card, you must draw three additional cards from the Draw Pile. If any of these additional cards are also Wild Creeper Cards (TNT), you do not have to show them to the other players or draw additional cards.

Drawing A Wild Creeper Card
The current player just drew a Wild Creeper card. They will have to draw three additional cards that they will add to their hand along with the Wild Creeper card.

After the Wild Creeper card is in your hand, it acts like a normal Wild card.

Wild Draw Four Card in UNO Minecraft

Wild Draw Four

A Wild Draw Four acts like a Wild card. It matches every color and you get to choose the color of the Discard Pile when you play it.

The Wild Draw Four does differ from a normal Wild in a couple ways though. While the card matches every other card in the game, you can only play the card when you have no other cards in your hand that match the color of the Discard Pile. Wild cards count as matching the Discard Pile’s color.

When a Wild Draw Four card is played, the next player in turn order has two options.

First they can accept the play of the card. They will draw four cards from the Draw Pile and they will lose their turn.

Challenging A Wild Draw Four

Otherwise they can challenge the play of the card. If they decide to challenge the play of the card, the player who played the Wild Draw Four shows them all of the cards from their hand. What happens next depends on whether the Wild Draw Four was played correctly.

If the player played the card correctly (they had no cards in their hand that matched the color of the Discard Pile), the challenge fails. The challenging player has to draw six cards instead of four. They also lose their turn.

Playing A Wild Draw Four Incorrectly
The player played a Wild Draw Four on top of a yellow zero. As they had a yellow card in their hand, they played the card incorrectly. The player that played the Wild Draw Four has to draw four cards instead of the challenger.

If the player played the card incorrectly (they had a card in their hand that matched the Discard Pile’s color), the challenge is successful. The player that played the Wild Draw Four card is forced to draw the four cards. The next player in turn order does not have to draw any cards, and they do not lose their turn.

Playing A Wild Draw Four Correctly
The player that played the Wild Draw Four does not have any yellow cards in their hand. They played the Wild Draw Four correctly. The player that challenged now has to draw six cards.

Calling UNO

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

Calling UNO
This player only has one card left in their hand. They need to call out “UNO” as quickly as possible in order to avoid a potential penalty.

If you do not say UNO and another player catches you not saying it, you will be forced to draw two cards from the Draw Pile. To challenge a player you must call them out before the next player starts their turn.

Winning UNO Minecraft

The first player to play all of the cards from their hand, wins UNO Minecraft.

Optional Scoring

If you would like to play multiple hands of UNO Minecraft, you can choose to use the optional scoring rules.

When a player wins a hand, they will collect all of the cards left in the other players’ hands. The winner of the hand then scores points for each card:

  • Number Cards: Face Value
  • Skip, Reverse, Draw 2: 20 points
  • Wild, Wild Draw 4, Wild Creeper: 50 points
Scoring in UNO Minecraft
These nine cards were left in the other players’ hands when the winner of the round played their last card. The winner scores 16 points for the three number cards at the top. They will score 20 points each for the Draw Two, Reverse and Skip cards. Finally they will score 50 points each for the Wild, Wild Draw Four, and Wild Creeper cards. They will score a total of 226 points.

Each player keeps a running total of the points they have earned from previous hands. The first player to reach 500 or more points wins the game.

Components for UNO Minecraft

UNO Minecraft


Year: 2017 | Publisher: Mattel

Genres: Card, Family

Ages: 7+ | Number of Players: 2-10 | Length of Game: 5-60 minutes

Difficulty: Light | Strategy: Light | Luck: High

Components: 19 Blue Number Cards (1-0, 2 of each 1-9), 19 Green Number Cards (1-0, 2 of each 1-9), 19 Red Number Cards (1-0, 2 of each 1-9), 19 Yellow Number Cards (1-0, 2 of each 1-9), 8 Draw Two Cards (2 of each color), 8 Reverse Cards (2 of each color), 8 Skip Cards (2 of each color), 4 Wild Cards, 4 Wild Draw Four Cards, 4 Wild Creeper Cards, Instructions

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