UNO Rules You Don't Have To Say 'UNO Out' On Last Card

Is it even Christmas if you don't basically come to blows with your family over a board game that means absolutely nothing? No, no it isn't.

Every family is different, but most are comprised of a variety of different players: from the one who doesn't give a s**t and the one who's too p****d to understand, to the one who takes everything far too seriously.

If you've got one of the latter in your camp, they're likely to be a stickler for the rules, and if you've wound up playing UNO, this is a very important announcement - you don't have to say 'UNO out' when you play your last card.

Last year, one bloke put it to a vote on social media, writing: "Do you have to say uno out when you play your last card in @realUNOgame??? Heated debate rn wit the fam."

Out of almost 57,000 votes cast, 61.9 percent said that you do indeed have to say 'UNO out'.

But then, out of nowhere, UNO swept in and cleared it up.

The official Twitter account responded: "While calling 'UNO Out' when you play your last card is a popular House Rule, it's not required.

"UNO has spoken."

The reaction was spicy, to say the least.

One person on Twitter wrote: "We keep telling Uno that they make the cards but not the rules."

Another added: "You always do this. It's like you enjoy getting dragged."

A third said: "When y'all gonna realise that nobody asked for your opinion??"

UNO also confirmed that you still have to yell out 'UNO' when you play your second to last card. If you don't do that and someone calls you out on it, then you have to pick up another card.

The company caused similar uproar a month prior when it stated that you can't stack +2 cards on top of each other.

What oughta happen when you play a +2 is that the next person draws two cards and then skips their go - got it?

Stacking would mean the next player could also play a +2 card, avoiding having to draw the cards and forcing the player after them to draw four cards and miss their turn if they can't add another +2 to the pile.

So there you go - play nice this Christmas, folks.

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Topics: UK News, Christmas

Jake Massey

Jake Massey is a journalist at LADbible. He graduated from Newcastle University, where he learnt a bit about media and a lot about living without heating. After spending a few years in Australia and New Zealand, Jake secured a role at an obscure radio station in Norwich, inadvertently becoming a real-life Alan Partridge in the process. From there, Jake became a reporter at the Eastern Daily Press. Jake enjoys playing football, listening to music and writing about himself in the third person.

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