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 tried 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 this one of those “house rules” situations where some people make up rules different from the official ones? Like the famous Monopoly rule 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

  • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de
    3·
    14 hours ago

    There actually is a game very similar to UNO that has a card that works like that: https://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.

      • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de
        2·
        8 hours ago

        It’s also a much more obscure game, my parents have a copy of it (so I played it many times in my childhood) but I’ve never encountered anyone else with one, nor do I remember seeing it sold.

        Also we usually didn’t call it by its German name “Was soll ich mich sorgen? Mach du dir Sorgen!” (more or less a direct translation of the above English), but just called it the “Selbstverteidigungskarte” (self-defense card).