How do you use the "uno reverse card"?

Submitted ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

The way I was taught to play Uno, the reverse card changes the direction of play.if you’re taking turns clockwise, it changes it to counterclockwise.

However, I often hear people say “uno reverse card” in the context of saying “whatever you just trued to do to me, I’m turning it around on you”. That seems to me to imply that in the game, the reverse card turns things around on the other player. Like if they play a +2, you can play the reverse card and make them pick up 2. Is that the way some people play?

Is thus one of those “house rules” situations where some people make up rules different from the official ones? Like the famous Monopoly ruke where people put a pot of money in the middle that you win when you land on free parking, even though the official rules say nothing happens on free parking

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schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨49⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
There actually is a game very similar to UNO that has a card that works like that: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mad_Magazine_Card_Game

I only played it in German, where the names are different, but according to that article, the card is called “What Me Worry? You Worry!” in English: if you are getting something bad done to you, you can play that and instead do the same thing to the person who did that to you.

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Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨51⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
Yeah, that’s a house rule not the official one. Like playing Monopoly with the Free Parking rule.

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Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I’ve never heard of anyone playing like that. I think it’s just that if it can reverse turn order, it can reverse ANYTHING!

That and it’s just a joke.

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- TheTechnician27@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  
  it can reverse ANYTHING!
  
  Chaos, chaos!
  
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  - danc4498@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Uno reverse… it reverses nothing.
    
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TabbsTheBat@pawb.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I’ve not seen anyone play as the meme would imply, I think that entire meme basically just comes from the card being called “reverse” and nothing to do with the actual rules :p

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Successful_Try543@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

That seems to me to imply that in the game, the reverse card turns things around on the other player. Like if they play a +2, you can play the reverse card and make them pick up 2. Is that the way some people play?

Exactly, as I am used to, action cards do add up: E.g. if someone (player A) plays “draw 2”, the next player (B) can lay another “draw 2” on top without drawing 2 cards themself forcing the next player © in line to draw 4 if they themself don’t lay another “draw 2” or a reverse card of matching colour. The latter would then chang the direction of play and force player B to act accordingly.

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Triumph@fedia.io ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
How do you use the Uno reverse card?

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naught101@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Yes, we used to play that way. Basically any attack card could be stacked on top of a previous one (of a matching colour or type), and the first person who couldn’t add to the stack got all the effects combined (so you might pick up 6 cards from a stack of +2s)

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mkwt@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I have never seen Uno played that way. If a player plays “reverse”, then the order of play switches from counterclockwise to clockwise or vice versa. The effects of the previous player’s card still land on their usual targets.

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DagwoodIII@piefed.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
The game comes with official rules.

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- FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Obviously, but not everyone plays by the official rules. See the famous Monopoly example
  
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Rhaedas@fedia.io ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
The free parking rule gave a reason for the space and a bit of financial padding to the game. I'm pretty sure there were a few more extra enhancements back when I played it as a kid, just to add to the game. As long as everyone agrees to the changes. We used to mess with chess variations in high school, learned very quickly that some games get really screwed up if you bend rules or add things too much.

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Meron35@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Yes. Most people I’ve played with do some variant of the super stacker ruleset.

All draw cards function as a skip your own turn and add to the draw stack. Skip and reverse can also function as passing the stack to someone else. This adds an additional element of risk/reward, do you play a scarce action card to pass the large stack at the risk of it backfiring and you possibly receiving an even larger draw stack, or do you just take the draw now?

The variants were popular enough that the UNO Facebook page has officially suggested them, for what it’s worth.

Rules for Stacking Draw Cards in UNO | Uno Variations - www.unovariations.com/uno-variation-stacking

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- EonNShadow@pawb.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  This just feeds into the notion that “the rules of Uno are whatever you can convince other people they are”
  
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  - Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨53⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
    Uno is indeed Calvinball
    
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- otacon239@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  This was how we played growing up. We knew it wasn’t official, but knew it was more fun.
  
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HereToLurk@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
My friends and I would play like that for shits and giggles usually after drinks. You can play reverse on top of pick up on top of skip, etc. so inevitably someone ends up with a massive hand and a plan to exact (friendly) revenge that often backfires spectacularly. But I wouldn’t say most people play that way. Just one of those figures of speech one says without really thinking about.

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- FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  It sounds fun playing that way. You just played a change the colour card? Well now I get to pick the colour
  
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- Spes@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  There’s a version of Uno called No Mercy. We play it a lot. Hell hath no fury like a player receiving a +10.
  
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